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External Program Review Committee (EPRC) minutes

Date of meeting: Dec. 2, 2021

DSD liaisons: Stacie Enders, Linda Wolford, Ari Dionisopoulos, Kristy Graume and Charles Young

Type: Whole committee

Location: Remote only due to the COVID-19 health pandemic

Attendees: Dan Baker, Kim Frost, Tatiana Kerestesh, Laura Daire, Jodi Greenstein, Liz Harri, Melanie Eidsmoe, Susie Haben, Mary Piggott and Stacy Danov

Not present: Danielle Bishop and Lindsay Nash

Public comments

There were no questions or comments from the public at this meeting.

Training on legislative process

Charles Young and Kristy Graume provided training to the committee on the Minnesota legislative process. See the minute’s attachment to view the slideshow.

Vote

Vote: to approve the meeting minutes from the November whole committee meeting:

· Jodi Greenstein: yes

· Kim Frost: yes

· Laura Daire: yes

· Liz Harri: yes

· Mary Piggott: yes

· Melanie Eidsmoe: yes

· Stacy Danov: yes

· Susie Haben: abstain

· Tatiana Kerestesh: abstain

· Dan Baker: not present for vote

Updates to share

Direct care workforce shortage

· The workforce development grant survey has been publically posted and is getting a lot of responses – more than 1,500 responses within the first 48 hours of being posted.

· DEED continues to partner with DHS in planning for the January recruitment event.

Discussion

Subcommittee updates

Vote: to recommend a discontinuation of the policy requiring BIRFs from providers who have active approval (does not include providers who do not have approval) from the commissioner for the use of a prohibited procedure because:

1. Those forms are duplicative of quarterly data updates on the PSTP review form

2. The use of those procedures is closely monitored by the EPRC subcommittee

3. DHS is not using the data received on the BIRFs from that small subpopulation (five people).

The vote:

· Jodi Greenstein: yes

· Kim Frost: yes

· Laura Daire: yes

· Liz Harri: yes

· Mary Piggott: yes

· Melanie Eidsmoe: yes

· Stacy Danov: abstain

· Susie Haben: yes

· Tatiana Kerestesh: yes

· Dan Baker: not present for vote

New psychotropic medication manual for 245D service providers

The committee completed its review and will send the manual draft to communications for publishing.

Review of the committee’s 2020 Olmstead recommendations

Committee members reviewed their 2020 Olmstead recommendations and noted for item 6:

· Many services recently received federal approval to continue with remote supports.

· DHS is looking at technology as a positive support strategy and how it can be used to increase independence. The EPRC could potentially make this a formal recommendation in their upcoming report. Liz will share with the committee technology information she is collecting, and the DHS technology lead has been invited to the committee’s January meeting.

Closing

Committee members are welcome to share additional information and discuss.

· Institute on Community Integration Flyer: ICI is starting a free Tier 1 beginner series on positive behavior support. Mary emailed the flyer to Stacie and she will share it with the committee.

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