Week of Aug. 19, 2025





Minnesota Department of Human Services





Aging & Disability
Weekly Updates



*Week of Aug. 19, 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

* Reminder: Opportunity to become a consultation services provider [ #Consultation_services ]
* Reminder: Grants to support new Americans in the long-term care (LTC) workforce [ #Grants ]
* Recent Community-Based Services Manual (CBSM) updates [ #CBSM ]



Other messages

* DHS requests public comments on Elderly Waiver (EW) plan amendments [ #EW ]
* Assisted Living Report Card state licensing and investigations results feature available [ #Report_card ]





Joint AASD/DSD messages

Reminder: Opportunity to become a consultation services provider [ [link removed] ]

* *Audience:* Businesses interested in becoming a Community First Services and Supports (CFSS) consultation services provider
* *Summary:* DHS invites applications from businesses interested in becoming a CFSS consultation services provider.

 

Reminder: Grants to support new Americans in the LTC workforce [ [link removed] ]

* *Audience:* Organizations that work with new Americans, LTC providers, workforce and employment organizations and other interested parties
* *Application deadline:* Sept. 4, 2025
* *Summary:* DHS is accepting applications for grants to support new Americans in the LTC workforce.

 

Recent CBSM updates [ [link removed] ]

* *Audience:* Lead agencies and all interested parties
* *Summary:* This announcement provides a summary of updates DHS made to the CBSM in July 2025.





Other messages

Occasionally, AASD/DSD needs to send more timely messages. We sent the following announcement in the past week:


* Aug. 12, 2025: DHS requests public comments on EW plan amendments (AASD message) [ [link removed] ]

 

AASD/DSD also shares messages from other areas of DHS. We are sharing the following announcement from the past week:


* Aug. 14, 2025: Assisted Living Report Card state licensing and investigations results feature available (forwarded message from Minnesota Assisted Living Report Card) [ [link removed] ]





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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