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Community-Based Services Manual (CBSM)


AASD, DSD and HSS eList announcement

Date: May 18, 2022
To: Lead agencies, home and community-based services (HCBS) providers, organizations that want to become HCBS providers and other interested parties
From: DHS Aging and Adult Services, Disability Services and Housing and Support Services divisions
Purpose: To announce grant applications to increase HCBS provider capacity to deliver services to rural and underserved communities
Application deadline: June 13, 2022
Contact: MN.GEAR.DHS@state.mn.us

Grants available to help increase access to services in underserved communities

Up to $3 million in grant funding is now available through DHS for organizations serving rural and underserved communities. Organizations interested in becoming HCBS providers or increasing their ability to provide services should apply for the grant by June 13, 2022. HCBS includes a variety of activities that allow people to live better while staying in their homes.

Individual grants may total up to $50,000 and can be used in several ways, as long as it improves the provider’s ability and capacity to deliver HCBS to rural and underserved communities. Uses for these funds can include, but are not limited to:

  • · Staff time, training costs and technical assistance required to be a provider of Medical Assistance (MA) waiver programs
  • · Staff time and technical assistance to develop a service that will qualify for reimbursement from MA waiver programs
  • · Translation or interpretation services
  • · Staff time to learn how to deliver culturally specific services
  • · Setting up a billing system to bill MA through fee-for-service and managed care organizations
  • · Staff time and costs of training required to become a Minnesota Health Care Program provider and/or get licensed by DHS.

    • With these grants, organizations will increase their ability to provide services to one or more of the following focus communities: Indigenous/American Indian, Black and African born, Asian, Latino, LGBTQ, as well as rural and regional centers outside the Twin Cities.

    Grand funding may also be used to expand an organization’s ability to provide services through programs like Elderly or Disability Waiver, Alternative Care, Housing Stabilization Services and Essential Community Supports.

    Questions

    For more information visit the grants and RFP website or email MN.GEAR.DHS@state.mn.us.

    Previous eList announcements

    AASD LEAD AGENCY ARCHIVE | DSD LEAD AGENCY ARCHIVE | DSD STAKEHOLDER ARCHIVE

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