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Aging & Disability
Weekly Updates
Week of Aug. 12, 2025
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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
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Joint AASD/DSD messages
DSD messages
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Training and event information
Other messages
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Joint AASD/DSD messages
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Audience: Direct support professionals, including home health nurses, personal care assistants, nursing home aides and other interested parties
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Survey deadline: Aug. 29, 2025
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Summary: There are just a few weeks left to take the short, voluntary survey about the HCBS direct support labor market.
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Audience: People who receive personal care assistance (PCA), Consumer Support Grant (CSG) and CFSS services, families, providers, lead agencies and other interested parties
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Summary: DHS began the transition from PCA and CSG to CFSS on Oct. 1, 2024. We will provide regular updates throughout the transition.
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Audience: HCBS providers
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Summary: DHS will email HCBS providers who have been selected to take the 2025 HCBS Labor Market Survey on Tuesday, Aug. 12, 2025.
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Audience: Lead agencies
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Summary: DHS created the Medicaid Matters communications toolkit to help lead agencies communicate about Medicaid cuts with people who receive services, the public or any interested audience.
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DSD messages
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Audience: EIDBI providers and other interested parties
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Summary: DHS encourages EIDBI providers to review resources about the new EIDBI provisional licensing requirements.
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Audience: EIDBI providers, people who receive services and their families and other interested parties
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Summary: DHS updated this eList announcement to clarify the role that must fulfill the observation and direction requirements.
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Training and event information
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Audience: HCBS employment and day service providers and other interested parties
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Event date: Aug. 14, 2025
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Summary: “Staying the Course: Navigating the Ups and Downs of Provider Transformation” is a virtual training opportunity hosted by the University of Minnesota Institute on Community Integration (ICI) on Thursday, Aug. 14, 2025.
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Audience: Cost report preparers for unit-based service providers
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Event date: Aug. 20, 2025
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Summary: The DWRS Cost Reporting Team will host a demonstration and Q&A session about DWRS cost reporting for unit-based service providers on Wednesday, Aug. 20, 2025.
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Audience: EIDBI agency leadership and owners, qualified supervising professionals (QSPs), level I and level II EIDBI providers and administrative and compliance staff who support clinical operations
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Event dates: Aug. 20 and Sept. 17, 2025
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Summary: DHS will host two identical training sessions to help EIDBI providers prepare to implement the new clinical supervision requirements passed during the 2025 legislative session.
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Audience: Providers preparing for an ownership change, including agency owners, administrators, billing staff and compliance staff
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Event date: Sept. 10, 2025
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Summary: DHS will host a training about what EIDBI providers need to know about a change of ownership on Wednesday, Sept. 10, 2025.
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Audience: Lead agencies, providers and other interested parties
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Event date: Sept. 18, 2025
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Summary: Registration is now open for the second session in the 2025 Odyssey webinar series, “Exploring the Impact of Aging with HIV: Resources, Insights and Lifespan Considerations.”
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Other messages
Occasionally, AASD/DSD shares messages from other areas of DHS. We are sharing the following announcement from the past week:
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