Week of Aug. 12, 2025
Minnesota Department of Human Services
Aging & Disability
Weekly Updates
*Week of Aug. 12, 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: Direct support professionals survey [ #DSP ]
* Community First Services and Supports (CFSS) implementation updates [ #CFSS ]
* Home and community-based services (HCBS) labor market survey instructions [ #HCBS_survey ]
* Medicaid Matters communications toolkit [ #Medicaid ]
DSD messages
* Early Intensive Developmental and Behavioral Intervention (EIDBI) licensing news and updates [ #EIDBI_licensing ]
* Correction: New EIDBI clinical supervision requirements [ #EIDBI_supervision ]
Training and event information
* Reminder: Free Minnesota Transformation Initiative (MTI) quarterly training about provider transformation [ #MTI ]
* Reminder: Webinar announcement: Disability Waiver Rate System (DWRS) Cost Reporting Demonstration and Q&A – Unit-based Service Providers [ #DWRS ]
* Reminder: Training announcement: EIDBI Clinical Supervision Trainings [ #EIDBI_supe_training ]
* Training announcement: Understanding Change of Ownership: What EIDBI Providers Need to Know [ #EIDBI_ownership ]
* Register for Odyssey webinar "Exploring the Impact of Aging with HIV: Resources, Insights and Lifespan Considerations" [ #Odyssey ]
Other messages
* eDocs system notification – Offline for maintenance 8/15-8/17 [ #Other ]
Joint AASD/DSD messages
Reminder: Direct support professionals survey [ [link removed] ]
* *Audience:* Direct support professionals, including home health nurses, personal care assistants, nursing home aides and other interested parties
* *Survey deadline:* Aug. 29, 2025
* *Summary:* There are just a few weeks left to take the short, voluntary survey about the HCBS direct support labor market.
CFSS implementation updates [ [link removed] ]
* *Audience:* People who receive personal care assistance (PCA), Consumer Support Grant (CSG) and CFSS services, families, providers, lead agencies and other interested parties
* *Summary:* DHS began the transition from PCA and CSG to CFSS on Oct. 1, 2024. We will provide regular updates throughout the transition.
HCBS labor market survey instructions [ [link removed] ]
* *Audience:* HCBS providers
* *Summary:* DHS will email HCBS providers who have been selected to take the 2025 HCBS Labor Market Survey on Tuesday, Aug. 12, 2025.
Medicaid Matters communications toolkit [ [link removed] ]
* *Audience:* Lead agencies
* *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.
DSD messages
EIDBI licensing news and updates [ [link removed] ]
* *Audience:* EIDBI providers and other interested parties
* *Summary:* DHS encourages EIDBI providers to review resources about the new EIDBI provisional licensing requirements.
Correction: New EIDBI clinical supervision requirements [ [link removed] ]
* *Audience:* EIDBI providers, people who receive services and their families and other interested parties
* *Summary:* DHS updated this eList announcement to clarify the role that must fulfill the observation and direction requirements.
Training and event information
Reminder: Free MTI quarterly training about provider transformation [ [link removed] ]
* *Audience:* HCBS employment and day service providers and other interested parties
* *Event date:* Aug. 14, 2025
* *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.
Reminder: Webinar announcement: DWRS Cost Reporting Demonstration and Q&A – Unit-based Service Providers [ [link removed] ]
* *Audience:* Cost report preparers for unit-based service providers
* *Event date:* Aug. 20, 2025
* *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.
Reminder: Training announcement: EIDBI Clinical Supervision Trainings [ [link removed] ]
* *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
* *Event dates:* Aug. 20 and Sept. 17, 2025
* *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.
Training announcement: Understanding Change of Ownership: What EIDBI Providers Need to Know [ [link removed] ]
* *Audience:* Providers preparing for an ownership change, including agency owners, administrators, billing staff and compliance staff
* *Event date:* Sept. 10, 2025
* *Summary:* DHS will host a training about what EIDBI providers need to know about a change of ownership on Wednesday, Sept. 10, 2025.
Register for Odyssey webinar "Exploring the Impact of Aging with HIV: Resources, Insights and Lifespan Considerations" [ [link removed] ]
* *Audience:* Lead agencies, providers and other interested parties
* *Event date:* Sept. 18, 2025
* *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.”
Other messages
Occasionally, AASD/DSD shares messages from other areas of DHS. We are sharing the following announcement from the past week:
* Aug. 6, 2025: eDocs system notification – Offline for maintenance 8/15-8/17 (forwarded message from DHS eDocs) [ [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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