DSD online training

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Brain Injury

Overview

This course is an introduction to brain injury and reviews the basics of working with people who have a brain injury. Through a series of videos, you will learn about different areas affected with each individual brain injury, including interventions, strategies and tips.

Target audience

• Support planners
• Providers
• Caregivers

Approximate completion time

75 minutes

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CCB Waiver Management System

Overview

This course provides information about the Community Alternative Care, Community Access for Disability Inclusion and Brain Injury (CCB) Waiver Management System (WMS) and demonstrates how lead agency WMS users can complete specific tasks to manage their CCB waiver budget.

Target audience

Lead agencies

Approximate completion time

1 hour

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CMDE and ITP Overview

Overview

This course provides an overview of the comprehensive multi-disciplinary evaluation (CMDE) and the individualized treatment plan (ITP). The CMDE is the tool used to diagnose and evaluate a person for potential Early Intensive Developmental and Behavioral Intervention (EIDBI) services. The ITP is a person-centered plan of care that is created using the information gathered in the person’s CMDE. It specifies the type and amount of medically necessary services the person will receive. This training goes through each form step by step and discusses strategies for how to gather information.

Target Audience

EIDBI providers (CMDE providers, qualified supervising professionals, level I and II providers)

Approximate completion time

1 hour

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Overview of Community First Services and Supports (CFSS) for Lead Agencies

Overview

This training gives an overview of what is new in CFSS, compared with personal care assistance (PCA) and the Consumer Support Grant (CSG). It covers how forthcoming changes will affect the work of lead agency assessors, case managers and care coordinators. The training assumes the learner is knowledgeable about PCA through their work as an assessor, case manager or care coordinator.

Note: This training does not include MMIS changes with CFSS or how to approve a CFSS service delivery plan

Goals

• Outline what’s new in CFSS compared with PCA and the CSG
• Describe how the changes will affect assessors, case managers and care coordinators

Target audience

Lead agency assessors, case managers and care coordinators

Approximate completion time

1.5 hours

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Consumer Directed Community Supports (CDCS)

Overview

This course provides an introduction and continuing resource for lead agencies about CDCS. You will learn about:

• The basics of CDCS
• Roles and responsibilities
• How to review a community support plan
• Allowable goods and services
• Rules of paying spouses and parents
• Involuntary exits from CDCS.

The course has multiple videos for flexible use and to use as a reference.

Target audience

Waiver case managers

Approximate completion time

30 minutes

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Consumer Support Grant (CSG)

Overview

This course is an introduction and continuing resource about CSG. You will learn about:

• The basics of CSG
• The process, roles and responsibilities of those involved
• Service Employees International Union (SEIU) contract compliance.

The course has multiple videos for flexible use and to use as a reference.

Target audience

Lead agencies

Approximate completion time

15 minutes

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Coordinating Services and Supports for a Child with ASD or Related Conditions

Overview

This self-paced online course will help professionals working with children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and related conditions and their families make accurate referrals based on the person’s and family’s needs. After this course, participants will be able to:

• Differentiate between Children’s Therapeutic Services and Supports (CTSS), Early Intensive Developmental and Behavioral Intervention (EIDBI) and other services for children with ASD and related conditions
• Identify appropriate services for children with ASD and related conditions when making referrals.

Target audience

• Children’s mental health targeted case managers
• Adult mental health case managers
• CTSS providers
• EIDBI providers
• Social workers
• Referral sources for ASD and related conditions

Approximate completion time

1 hour

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Cultural Responsiveness in Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) Services

Overview

This course is designed to increase your understanding of culturally responsive practices when providing services to people with ASD and related conditions.

Target audience

All EIDBI providers:

• Business owners and administrative support (sections 1-2)
• Individual level III providers and additional staff who come into contact with the family (sections 1-5 and 8)
• CMDE providers, QSPs, individual level I and II providers (sections 1-8)

Approximate completion time

1-3 hours, depending on job responsibilities

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Developmental Disabilities (DD) Waiver Management System

Overview

This course provides information about the DD Waiver WMS. These four training modules demonstrate how lead agency WMS users can complete specific tasks to manage their DD Waiver budget.

Target audience

Lead agency WMS users

Approximate completion time

45 minutes

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Developmental Disabilities Waitlists

Overview

This course provides a description of waiver waiting lists under Minnesota’s Olmstead Plan. In five modules, you will learn about:

• What to expect upon implementation
• How existing lead agency work will be changed by waiver waiting list reform
• How lead agency staff use DD Waiver Waiting List Category Determination Tool, DHS-7209 (PDF) to determine a category for someone on a DD Waiver waiting list
• How lead agency MMIS users enter a DD Waiver waiting list category in MMIS.

The course will also demonstrate how to use the WMS to document funding approval for a person on the DD Waiver waiting list.

Target audience

Lead agencies

Approximate completion time

1 hour

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DWRS: Intro to Disability Waiver Rate System (DWRS) and Rate Management System (RMS)

Overview

This course provides an overview of Minnesota’s statewide rate system for HCBS disability waivers, gives an introduction to the RMS and explains how the DWRS affects your work.

Target audience

• Lead agencies
• Providers

Approximate completion time

1 hour

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DWRS: Utilizing the DWRS supplemental worksheets

Overview

This course explains how to determine shared and individual staffing hours for residential services. It also covers how to use RMS Residential Shared Staffing Hours Worksheet, DHS-6910 (PDF) as an aide to determine residential staffing hours.

Target audience

Providers

Approximate completion time

1 hour

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Early Intensive Developmental and Behavioral Intervention (EIDBI) 101 for Families and Counties

Overview

This course provides basic information and resources about the EIDBI benefit. This benefit offers medically necessary treatment to people younger than age 21 who have ASD or related conditions.

Target audience

• Families of people with ASD or related conditions
• Lead agency staff who work with providers

Approximate completion time

1 hour

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Early Intensive Developmental and Behavioral Intervention (EIDBI) 101 for Providers

Overview

This course provides basic information and resources about the EIDBI benefit, as well as guidelines for EIDBI providers. This benefit offers medically necessary treatment to people younger than age 21 who have ASD or related conditions.

Target audience

EIDBI providers

Approximate completion time

1 hour

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Environmental accessibility adaptations (EAA): Home Modification

Overview

EAA home modification is a waiver service for people who have accessibility needs in their primary residence. Lead agencies are responsible to coordinate EAA home modification projects.

This course provides information and tools for lead agencies about the home modification assessment and installation process.

Target audience

• County and tribal case managers
• Contracted entities
• Managed care organizations (MCOs)
• Others who support people on HCBS waivers or the AC program

Approximate completion time

3 hours

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Ethical Dilemmas: Right to Take Risks vs. Right to be Safe

Overview

This video series provides an in-depth discussion around ethical dilemmas related to supported decision-making. Anita Raymond presents this series. After watching it, you will be able to discuss the need to balance people's right to take risks while also considering their need for safety.

Target audience

Case managers

Approximate completion time

2 hours

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Home and Community-Based Services (HCBS) Disability Waiver Foundations

Overview

This foundational course covers an introduction to the four HCBS disability waivers:

• Brain Injury (BI)
• Community Alternative Care (CAC)
• Community Access for Disability Inclusion (CADI)
• Developmental Disabilities (DD).

From the ideas behind their conception to their current use to help people with disabilities, this class will explain who is eligible to receive these waivers and how the services covered under the waivers can help people live the lives they want.

Target audience

• HCBS case managers
• Assessors
• Supervisors of above

Approximate completion time

1 hour

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Home and Community-Based Services (HCBS) Modules for Person-Centered Organizations

Overview

This free eight-part training is for organizations that want to develop or enhance their person-centeredness. The modules are especially designed for small- and medium-sized HCBS providers or anyone who works in or receives HCBS who want to improve quality of life outcomes for older adults and people with disabilities.

Each module walks through the steps, tools and resources to guide organizations as they move forward to become more person-centered.

This training was developed by the Institute on Community Integration (ICI) from the University of Minnesota, in partnership with MN DHS.

Target audience

• HCBS providers, supervisors and management
• People who receive HCBS and their families

Approximate completion time

8 hours

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Integrated Community Supports (ICS): Setting Capacity Report

Overview

This training will give a brief overview of the ICS service and provide information about where ICS is delivered, how current settings may transition to ICS and how to fill out the setting capacity report form required for providers who want to deliver these services.

Target audience

HCBS providers, supervisors and management who wish to develop an ICS setting.

Approximate completion time

30 minutes

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Integrating Work and Benefits in Person-Centered Planning

Overview

This advanced training on person-centered approaches to employment will help you think, communicate and work differently to improve employment outcomes for people with disabilities.

Target audience

• Case managers
• Lead agencies
• Providers
• Support planners

Approximate completion time

1 hour

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Lead Agency Oversight of the HCBS Waiver/AC Approval-Option Service Vendors

Overview

Lead agencies have the option to approve vendors not enrolled with DHS to deliver a subset of HCBS waiver/AC services. In this course, you will learn about:

• Which waiver/AC service vendors lead agencies can approve
• The process lead agencies must follow
• The resources available to assist lead agencies in this oversight function.

Target audience

Lead agencies

Approximate completion time

2 hours

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Long-Term Services and Supports (LTSS) Notice of Action and Appeals Process

Overview

This course guides county and tribal nation case managers and assessors through the notice of action and appeals processes. Minnesota state law requires case managers and assessors provide people with a notice of action. These self-paced training videos support case managers and assessors with this process.

Target audience

• County and tribal nation case managers
• County and tribal nation assessors

Approximate completion time

1 hour

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MMIS Navigation for Continuing Care

Overview

This introductory course covers MMIS navigation for new or minimally experienced users. In this course, you will learn about:

• Terminology
• Navigation
• Information storage
• Security requirements.

Target audience

• Lead agency staff who view information stored in MMIS
• Lead agency staff who enter screening documents and service agreements for HCBS services and waivers

Approximate completion time

2 hours

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Overview of the Home and Community-Based Services Final Rule

Overview

This course will help you understand how Minnesota’s Olmstead Plan and person-centered planning work with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) rule on HCBS services.

Target audience

• Lead agency staff
• Providers

Approximate completion time

30 minutes

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Personal Care Assistance (PCA) and Community First Services and Supports (CFSS) worker training

Overview

This course is an overview of PCA/CFSS services and various information about PCA/CFSS worker duties. After taking it, you will be able to:

• Describe PCA/CFSS services and the role the worker plays in it
• Understand how to provide PCA services in a person-centered manner
• Respond appropriately in the event the person’s health and safety are at risk.

CFSS update

On April 16, 2020, DHS added content to this training about the CFSS program. Workers who take the test after April 16, 2020, can use their certificate for both PCA and CFSS. Current PCA workers do not need to retake the test at this time.

Target audience

Anyone interested in becoming a PCA/CFSS worker and all current PCA workers

Approximate completion time

3 hours for training and certification test

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Person-Centered Practices in Support Planning

Overview

This course will help you grow your person-centered skills and apply them to your work. This training complements the person-centered thinking and person-centered planning trainings.

Target audience

Minnesota support planning professionals in all fields, including, but not limited to:

• Certified assessors
• Case managers
• Relocation services
• Care coordinators
• Support planners
• Person-centered planners
• Managers and supervisors of the above

Approximate completion time

1 hour

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Positive Supports Rule (Minn. R. 9544)

Overview

The Positive Supports Rule prohibits the use of certain restrictive interventions and places limitations on the emergency use of manual restraint.

This course will help you understand how this rule influences services licensed by DHS. You will learn about:

• An introduction to the Positive Supports Rule
• Information on positive support strategies and person-centered planning
• An overview of prohibited and allowed procedures in the Positive Supports Rule
• The roles of professionals in the Positive Supports Rule
• Documentation and reporting in the Positive Supports Rule.

Successfully completing this course serves as the commissioner's competency assessment for qualified professionals.

Target audience

• 245D-licensed providers
• All DHS-licensed providers serving someone with a diagnosed developmental disability or related condition

Approximate completion time

2 hours

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Preparing People with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) to Work in the Community

Overview

This course presents tips for parents and caregivers to prepare people with ASD to work in the community. Abbie Wells-Herzog presents this session. She is the autism specialist at the Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development (DEED), Vocational Rehabilitation Services (VRS). She holds a B.S. in rehabilitation education and M.S. in rehabilitation counseling from the University of Arizona.

Target audience

• Case managers
• Providers
• Families of people with ASD

Approximate completion time

30 minutes

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Relocation Service Coordination (RSC) Foundations

Overview

This course is an introduction to RSC.This service can help a person return to the community after living in an institution. You will learn about how to:

• Define the process to connect a person with RSC
• Recognize the role of RSC case managers
• Apply best practices in your work with RSC case managers
• Describe how to ensure a successful transition for the person receiving RSC.

Target audience

• Lead agency staff
• Nursing facility social workers
• RSC case managers
• RSC providers
• People receiving services and their support team

Approximate completion time

1 hour

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Rule 185 Foundations

Overview

This course guides Rule 185 case managers through their role, responsibilities and eligibility requirements for people who receive Rule 185 case management services.

This course is intended for those new or already familiar with Rule 185 case management.

Goals

After taking this training, participants will be able to:

• Summarize the history of case management for people with developmental disabilities
• Understand the purpose of Minn. R. 9525 (Rule 185)
• Summarize the qualifications for eligibility for Rule 185
• Recognize the responsibilities of Rule 185 case managers
• Navigate DHS resources to find more information about Rule 185.

Completion requirements

DHS strongly recommends every disability case manager that provides or works with people who receive Rule 185 case management complete this course at least once and then additionally as needed.

Rule 185 case managers must receive no less than 20 hours of training annually as outlined in Minn. Stat. §9525.0012, subd. 6. This course fulfills the requirement that some portion of annual training include in the area of case management.

Target audience

Rule 185 case managers, disability waiver case managers, certified assessors, case aides and supervisors

Approximate completion time

1 hour

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Support Planner Training for Consumer Directed Community Supports (CDCS)

Overview

This course prepares you to pass the CDCS support planner certification test. CDCS is an option for people on AC or waiver programs to use those program funds to flexibly design and self-direct their own services It allows more control over their own care and planning the life of their choice.

Target audience

People preparing to take the CDCS support planner certification exam

Approximate completion time

2 hours

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Support Planner Initial Certification for Consumer Directed Community Supports (CDCS)

Overview

This is the initial assessment to become a CDCS support planner. The exam checks the following:

• Your awareness, knowledge and understanding of CDCS
• The roles, responsibilities and skills needed to be an effective support planner.

You will receive your certification via email once you successfully pass the exam.

You must pass this test to be paid as a support planner through CDCS.

Target audience

People who wish to be CDCS support planners

Approximate completion time

2 hours

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Support Planner Recertification for Consumer Directed Community Supports (CDCS)

Overview

CDCS support planners must recertify every two years after passing the initial CDCS assessment (course code DS651).

You will receive your certification via email once you successfully pass the exam.

Target audience

People who wish to maintain their CDCS certification and be paid as support planners through CDCS

Approximate completion time

1 hour

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Supported Decision Making: Protecting Rights, Ensuring Choices

Overview

What does person-centered planning mean when a person might have difficulty making choices? With statistics and individual cases, Jonathan Martinis challenges his audience to rethink how they perceive risk, protection and capacity for people living with disabilities. In this course, you will:

• Gain an understanding of how less restrictive alternatives can be created
• Make the most of a person’s capabilities and supports.

Jonathan Martinis is Senior Director for Law and Policy at the Burton Blatt Institute, Syracuse University.

Target audience

• Certified assessors
• Case managers
• Relocation services
• Care coordinators
• Support planners
• Person-centered planners
• Managers and supervisors of the above

Approximate completion time

1 hour

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Supporting My Move: A Case Manager’s Role

Overview

This course guides waiver case managers through their role, responsibilities and requirements in supporting a person as they work together to find a new home for the person who receives services.

Note: This is an update to the course previously titled “Supporting My Move.” Changes made include:

• New course title
• Housing access coordination (HAC) information was removed
• The waiver case management guidance document updated.

Goals

• Learn to recognize and address signs that a person is interested in moving
• Recognize the responsibilities a case manager has when a person wants to move
• Understand how to describe and authorize Housing Stabilization Services (HSS) or other home and community-based services available to meet a person’s housing needs.
• Be able to apply helpful housing tools when working a person to obtain housing.

Completion requirements

Participants are required to pass a 10-question knowledge check with a score of 80 percent or higher to complete the course successfully.

DHS strongly recommends every disability waiver case manager completes this course at least once and then additionally as needed.

Disability waiver case managers must receive no less than 10 hours of training annually as outlined in Minn. Stat. §256B.49(3)(e) and Minn. Stat. §256B.092(3)(f). This course fulfills the requirement that some portion of that annual training include person-centered planning.

Target audience

Disability waiver case managers

Approximate completion time

1 hour

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Telehealth Early Intervention Services

Overview

This training provides an overview of the benefits and barriers to providing early intervention autism services via telehealth. This course covers the different services offered via telehealth, preparing for the session and best practice guidelines

Target audience

Early intervention providers and families (EIDBI, autism, etc.)

Approximate completion time

30 minutes

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Vulnerable Adult Mandated Reporting (VAMR)

Overview

This introduction to the mandated reporting of the maltreatment of vulnerable adults includes:

• Valuable information about how to determine what constitutes neglect, abuse or maltreatment
• The procedures involved in filing a report of maltreatment and contacting the common entry point
• Legal definitions and statutory language.

Case studies included throughout the course will help you make the connection from statutory language to real-life situations.

Target audience

• Lead agencies
• Provides
• Advocates and people who receive services

Approximate completion time

1 hour

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Waiver Provider 101

Overview

This course introduces providers to basic information about HCBS and Minnesota Health Care Programs (MHCP).

Once you have successfully completed the course and passed the quiz, you will receive an email confirmation. Print and submit this along with your enrollment application.

You must take this training before enrolling as a new MHCP provider to provide services through an HCBS waiver or AC program.

Target audience

Employees of organizations who want to enroll with MHCP to provide services for people who use HCBS waivers or the AC program

Approximate completion time

4 hours

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Acronym

Definition

AC

Alternative Care program

ASD

Autism spectrum disorder

BI

Brain Injury Waiver

CAC

Community Alternative Care Waiver

CADI

Community Access for Disability Inclusion Waiver

CCB

Community Alternative Care, Community Access for Disability Inclusion and Brain Injury waivers

CDCS

Consumer directed community supports

CMDE

Comprehensive multi-disciplinary evaluation

DD

Developmental Disabilities Waiver

DWRS

Disability Waiver Rate System

EIDBI

Early Intensive Developmental and Behavioral Intervention benefit

HCBS

Home and community-based services

ITP

Individualized treatment plan

MMIS

Medicaid Management Information System

QSP

Qualified supervising professional

RMS

Rate Management System

WMS

Waiver Management System