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DSD eList announcement

Date: March 25, 2025
To: People who receive disability waiver services and their family members, disability and behavioral health advocates, lead agency representatives, waiver service providers and other interested parties
From: DHS Disability Services Division
Purpose: To recruit applicants for the Waiver Reimagine Advisory Committee
Application deadline: April 8, 2025
Contact: waiver.reimagine@state.mn.us

Applications open for Waiver Reimagine Advisory Committee

DHS is accepting applications to fill seven seats on the Waiver Reimagine Advisory Committee.

Application details

Use the following information to apply:

  • · Deadline: April 8, 2025
  • · Instructions: To apply, complete an online application at Office of the Minnesota Secretary of State Steve Simon – Board/Commission: Waiver Reimagine Advisory Committee. After you complete the application, DHS will email you a link to a questionnaire.
    Note: You must complete both the online application and the questionnaire for DHS to consider you for an open position.

    • Who should apply

    The open membership categories include:

  • · People with disabilities who use waiver services (four open seats, including one from greater Minnesota and one from the Twin Cities metropolitan area).
  • · Family members of people under age 21 who use waiver services (one open seat).
  • · Disability and behavioral health advocates (two open seats).

    • We will take diversity among committee members into account to ensure a variety of perspectives. Areas of diversity include:

  • · Racial and/or ethnic backgrounds.
  • · Age.
  • · Primary language.
  • · Type of disability.
  • · Gender identity.

    • Committee responsibilities

    The Waiver Reimagine Advisory Committee is responsible to provide input on the continuing development and implementation of Waiver Reimagine, including but not limited to:

  • · How to determine individual budgets.
  • · Criteria and exception process for individual budgets.
  • · Consolidation of the four current home and community-based waiver service programs (i.e., Brain Injury, Community Alternative Care, Community Access for Disability Inclusion and Developmental Disabilities waivers) into two waiver programs (i.e., Residential Support and Individual Support waivers).

    • More information

    For more information about the Waiver Reimagine Advisory Committee, refer to DHS – Waiver Reimagine Advisory Committee.

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