Week of Feb. 11, 2025





Minnesota Department of Human Services





Aging & Disability
Weekly Updates



*Week of Feb. 11, 2025*






This weekly digest is a method to communicate updates, initiatives and policy changes from the Aging and Adult Services Division (AASD) and Disability Services Division (DSD) in a simplified way. We send this announcement every week on Tuesdays.

In this edition





Joint AASD/DSD messages

* Provider costs and wages survey now open [ #Survey ]

 

DSD messages

* Reminder: Apply for the External Program Review Committee (EPRC) [ #EPRC ]
* License transition support opportunity [ #License_transition ]
* Subminimum wage data report available [ #Sub_wage_report ]



Training and event information

* Reminder: Webinar about technology for elopement and wandering [ #Webinar_tech ]





Joint AASD/DSD messages

Provider costs and wages survey now open [ [link removed] ]

* *Audience:* Lead agencies, providers and other interested parties
* *Survey deadline:* March 7, 2025
* *Summary:* DHS seeks provider feedback about costs and wages for rate methodology evaluation.





DSD messages

Reminder: Apply for the EPRC [ [link removed] ]

* *Audience:* Licensed health and mental health professionals
* *Summary:* DHS invites qualified licensed professionals with customer service and teamwork skills to apply for the EPRC.

 

License transition support opportunity [ [link removed] ]

* *Audience:* Disability waiver service providers who transitioned or will transition from a licensed customized living (CL) setting to a licensed community residential setting under a corporate foster care moratorium exception approved by DHS between July 1, 2022, and Dec. 31, 2023
* *Application deadline:* March 1, 2025
* *Summary:* DHS seeks applicants for a license transition support opportunity for disability waiver service providers who transitioned or will transition from a licensed CL setting to a licensed community residential setting.

 

Subminimum wage data report available [ [link removed] ]

* *Audience:* Counties and tribal nations that administer disability waiver funds, employment and day service providers and other interested parties
* *Summary:* DHS published the subminimum wage data report for Aug. 1, 2023, to June 30, 2024.





Training and event information

Reminder: Webinar about technology for elopement and wandering [ [link removed] ]

* *Audience:* Lead agency assessors, case managers, providers, people who receive services and caregivers
* *Event date:* Feb. 20, 2025
* *Summary:* Join DHS and Minnesota Networking in Education and Assistive Technology (MN-NEAT) for a webinar on leveraging technology to support people at risk of elopement and wandering. The webinar is on Thursday, Feb. 20, 2025.





AASD ARCHIVE [ [link removed] ] | DSD LEAD AGENCY ARCHIVE [ [link removed] ] | DSD STAKEHOLDER ARCHIVE [ [link removed] ]

Visit CBSM – What’s new [ [link removed] ] often for a list of policies/pages we’ve recently updated in the Community-Based Services Manual [ [link removed] ].








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