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Date

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SSIS Update Issue 656

6/10/2025

  • SSIS Repository Error #4150 – Missing Foster Parent Entry
  • SSIS Tip: Customizable options in SSIS
  • New Resource Alert: SSIS Coffee Talk Time Stamp Agendas Now Available
  • June SSIS coffee talk: Placement Entry in SSIS
  • SSIS Engagement and Information site
  • SSIS CW-TCM Healthcare Claiming Training

SSIS Update Issue 655

5/28/2025

  • Northstaf Basic and Supplemental rates
  • Prevention Services State Report
  • SSIS Tip: Adding Vendor Provided Services
  • New SSIS Agency Training Sandbox
  • New Structured Decision Making (SDM) training
  • June SSIS coffee talk: Placement Entry in SSIS
  • New SSIS Engagement and Information site
  • SSIS CW-TCM Healthcare Claiming training
  • SSIS Adult Protection Worker training

SSIS Update Issue 654

5/13/2025

  • Employment Opportunity
  • Time Entry Transformation – Sprint Reviews
  • SSIS Help Desk Update: Unlocking Resources That Can Make Your World Easier
  • May and June SSIS coffee talks
  • New SSIS Engagement and Information site
  • SSIS CW-TCM Healthcare Claiming Training
  • SSIS Adult Protection Worker Training

SSIS Update Issue 653

5/1/2025

  • Resolved: Clearing issue with No Gender field
  • Approval/denial of the Adult Protection SDM Intake Assessment
  • SSIS Adult Protection documentation
  • SSIS New Mentor eLearning
  • Minnesota African American Family Preservation Child Welfare Disproportionality Act legislation
  • May and June SSIS coffee talks
  • New SSIS Engagement and Information site
  • SSIS CW-TCM Healthcare Claiming Training
  • SSIS Adult Protection Worker Training

SSIS Update Issue 652

4/18/2025

  • QRTP Extended Placement Review Calculations
  • SSIS Tip: Social Service Information System Resource page
  • SSIS coffee talk: Legal and Financial Responsibilities
  • SSIS Engagement and Information site
  • SSIS CW-TCM Healthcare Claiming Training
  • SSIS Adult Protection Worker Training

SSIS Update Issue 651

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  • AFCARS Data Review: Licensing compliance
  • Upcoming SSIS coffee talks
  • SSIS Engagement and Information site
  • SSIS CW-TCM Healthcare Claiming Training
  • SSIS Adult Protection Worker Training

SSIS Update Issue 650

3/18/2025

  • AFCARS New & Updated Repository Errors
  • SSIS Tip – Data fix requests
  • Upcoming SSIS coffee talks
  • SSIS Engagement & Information site
  • SSIS CW-TCM Healthcare Claiming Training
  • SSIS Adult Protection Worker Training

SSIS Update Issue 649

3/4/2025

  • Save Settings/Email Lists Prior to SSIS v25.1 Statewide Release
  • Time Entry Transformation Update
  • QRTP Extended Placement Review (EPR) calculation
  • SSIS Tip: Admin - View Fiscal Details
  • Purge and Destruction
  • March and April SSIS coffee talk sessions
  • Engagement HQ
  • SSIS CW-TCM Healthcare Claiming Training

SSIS Update Issue 648

2/19/2025

  • AFCARS
  • Time entry modernization
  • SSIS CP Review Update
  • State Reports - SEAGR
  • Key considerations when approving a MAPCY
  • Engagement HQ
  • SSIS Tip – SSIS Resource page or EHQ website
  • March and April SSIS coffee talk sessions

SSIS Update Issue 647

2/4/2025

  • Save Settings/Email Lists Prior to SSIS v25.1 Statewide Release
  • AFCARS
  • Updated SSIS Essentials courses released on TrainLink
  • State Detail quick tip
  • SSIS Tip - SSIS Basics for Child Protection video training
  • SSIS coffee talk: Statewide Release v25.1

SSIS Update Issue 646

1/22/2025

  • AFCARS Education Screen Field Defect
  • Copying and pasting into SSIS
  • Adult Protection SSIS User Guide Update
  • APS and SSIS Learning and Development release new video
  • SSIS Tip – Reassign Workgroups

SSIS Update Issue 645

1/8/2025

  • AFCARS Repository Error #4110
  • SSIS Tip
  • SSIS 24.4.3 special release
  • Upcoming SSIS coffee talks

SSIS Update Issue 644

12/17/2024

  • AFCARS corner
  • MnChoices set up
  • SSIS fiscal documentation updates
  • Updated Adult Protection SSIS User Guide
  • SSIS tip: Intakes Needing Action Log
  • January’s SSIS coffee talk

SSIS Update Issue 643

11/26/2024

  • Agency Accounting System Changes
  • AFCARS corner
  • Annual ICD-10 Diagnosis Code Updates
  • SSIS Modernization Updates
  • SSIS Tip - SSIS Basics for Child Protection video training
  • December’s SSIS coffee talk

SSIS Update Issue 642

11/13/2024

  • November’s SSIS coffee talk
  • AFCARS & SSIS repository corner
  • Submitting payment batches reminders
  • SSIS tip: Add Associated Activity to a Service

SSIS Update Issue 641

11/7/2024

  • SSIS Repository & Data Reports for AFCARS
  • AFCARS Reminders
  • Extended Foster Care placements
  • SSIS defects
  • SSIS Tip: Visit the SSIS Resource page
  • November’s SSIS coffee talk

SSIS Update Issue 640

10/16/2024

  • Adjustment reversals and correcting entries
  • Claiming issue with gender fields
  • SSIS State Details Determination After Appeal Defect
  • Family Conditions Tab in the Child Maltreatment Report
  • AFCARS & SSIS Repository Corner
  • SSIS Modernization Update

SSIS Update Issue 639

10/2/2024

  • AFCARS & SSIS Repository Corner
  • SSIS tip: Financially and legally responsible agencies
  • SSIS Child Protection Review and Modernization Update
  • Child Welfare Targeted Case Management (CW-TCM) eligibility reminder
  • Updated Clearing documentation now available
  • October’s SSIS coffee talk
  • Update to Adult Protection SSIS User Guide

SSIS Update Issue 638

9/19/2024

  • AFCARS & SSIS Repository Corner
  • Time saving tip when viewing State Detail
  • SSIS Performance and Stability
  • Modernization and Improvements Update
  • Updated Adult Protection SSIS User Guide
  • SSIS Adult Protection Worker Training

SSIS Update Issue 637

9/6/2024

  • Staff Updates
  • AFCARS & SSIS Repository Corner
  • SSIS at MCHHSA conference
  • Adoption: Pre/Post Identity coffee talk
  • SSIS CP Paperwork Reduction Review Update
  • SSIS Modernization
  • SSIS Tip: Time entry on Activity screen
  • Tips from the SSIS Help Desk
  • Reminder: SSIS Help Desk email change

SSIS Update Issue 636

8/23/2024

  • SSIS Statewide Release v24.3 postponed
  • AFCARS & SSIS Repository Corner
  • Clearing: Best practice tip
  • Agency accounting system changes
  • Upcoming SSIS coffee talks
  • Reminder: SSIS Help Desk email change

SSIS Update Issue 635

8/7/2024

  • AFCARS & SSIS Repository Corner: AFCARS Error Fix Requests to Agencies
  • NEW SSIS Help Desk Email Address
  • Data Clean-Up and Error Help
  • Upcoming SSIS coffee talks
  • SSIS Resources
  • SSIS training opportunities
  • SSIS Adult Protection Worker Training

SSIS Update Issue 634

7/24/2024

  • NEW: AFCARS & SSIS Repository Corner
  • Child Maltreatment Transfers (CMR)
  • SEAGR Unit Conversions – Service 123
  • SSIS Statewide Release v24.3 Pilot 1 Delayed
  • NCP Service Plan
  • MN-ITS Annual Password Update
  • SSIS tip: Adding participants to an intake
  • Support
  • Upcoming SSIS coffee talks

SSIS Update Issue 633

7/10/2024

  • Adoption and Foster Care Analysis and Reporting System- AFCARS
  • SSIS Help Desk requests
  • SSIS reference materials
  • Upcoming SSIS coffee talks
  • SSIS training opportunities

SSIS Update Issue 632

6/25/2024

  • Program vs non-program related time
  • Summary Report Preview/Print
  • Mentor collaboration
  • Employment opportunity
  • July’s SSIS Coffee Talk
  • SSIS training opportunities

SSIS Update Issue 631

6/12/2024

  • Interim Guidance for Noncaregiver Sex Trafficking Assessments
  • OHPP Engagement Sessions
  • SSIS Tip: Visit the SSIS Resource page
  • Upcoming SSIS coffee talk sessions
  • July’s SSIS Coffee Talk
  • SSIS training opportunities

SSIS Update Issue 630

5/29/2024

  • Using Open Case/Workgroup Setup: Case Section
  • Mentor of the month: Kathy Melvin
  • SSIS Adult Protection Worker Training
  • Updated Adult Protection SSIS User Guide
  • New fiscal documentation
  • Fiscal documentation updates
  • Upcoming SSIS coffee talk sessions
  • SSIS training opportunities

SSIS Update Issue 629

5/15/2024

  • Frequency of Qualified Residential Treatment Program (QRTP) extended placement reviews clarified
  • SSIS tip: Save time by personalizing the ‘Save As’ Quick Access
  • Adult Maltreatment Reports
  • SSIS Time to Initial Contact Report Defect
  • Reminder: Save and restore user settings prior to Statewide Releases
  • Selecting SSIS mentors
  • Upcoming SSIS coffee talk sessions
  • SSIS training opportunities

SSIS Update Issue 628

4/30/2024

  • Department of Children, Youth, and Families (DCYF) commissioner announced
  • Special SSIS Release: Department of Children, Youth and Families
  • Minimize AFCARS Errors
  • SSIS User Errors
  • SSIS Child Protection Review meeting
  • SSIS Mentor of the Month: Doris Hoy
  • SSIS Tip - SSIS Basics for Child Protection video training
  • Upcoming SSIS coffee talk sessions

SSIS Update Issue 627

4/16/2024

  • SSIS Child Protection Review Update
  • Restricting DHS user profiles at the agency level
  • Workgroups and Cases
  • SSIS Tip: Generate and review Data Integrity Reports regularly
  • SSIS Adult Protection Worker Training
  • SSIS Child Protection Permanency Online Training Update
  • Upcoming SSIS coffee talk sessions

SSIS Update Issue 626

4/2/2024

  • SSIS Mentor of the Month: Lisa Wefelmeyer
  • SSIS In the News
  • AFCARS 24A Reporting Period has Ended
  • SSIS assistance for agency users
  • Using the Cascade feature in SSIS
  • SSIS tip: Unknown, Unknown
  • Upcoming SSIS coffee talk sessions

SSIS Update Issue 625

3/19/2024

  • Pilot agencies needed
  • 2025 Supplemental budget released
  • SSIS tip: Entering unknown information in SSIS
  • Welcome New SSIS Business staff!
  • Users viewing confidential data
  • OHPP Update
  • SSIS Admin coffee talk scheduled March 26

SSIS Update Issue 624

3/6/2024

  • Welcome SSIS Business Section staff
  • SSIS Review Update
  • SSIS Legislative Hearing
  • SSIS tip: Adult Protection Interventions Tab- Description Column

SSIS Update Issue 623

2/20/2024

  • Thank you pilot agencies
  • SSIS tip: Information in the Description of Need is viewable
  • SSIS Admin coffee talk scheduled March 26
  • SSIS training opportunities

SSIS Update Issue 622

2/12/2024

  • SSIS mentor of the month: Plamen Dimitrov
  • The SSIS Review is underway
  • Reminder to save and restore user settings prior to Statewide Release
  • SSIS documentation update
  • SSIS tip: Expanding columns in grids

SSIS Update Issue 621

1/24/2024

  • Child Foster Care Report – Abbreviated Proofing Message List
  • Reminder of change to opening PDFs in Attached Files (SSIS/Azure)
  • SSIS tip: SSIS Resource page

SSIS Update Issue 620

1/9/2024

  • SSIS System Reviews
  • Tip: Submit the Infant and Toddler Intervention Referral Online
  • SSIS documentation updates

SSIS Update Issue 619

12/28/2023

  • SSIS data entry, design, and performance review
  • Pilot agencies needed
  • Interactive Video (ITV) with Targeted Case Management (TCM)
  • Update Annual Settings in SSIS Admin
  • SSIS employment opportunities
  • SSIS Tip: Use the Find Panel keyword search in Grids
  • New Child Welfare – Targeted Case Management (CW-TCM) resource page
  • Updated Adult Protection User Guide

SSIS Update Issue 618

12/13/2023

  • Pilot agencies needed
  • Service Plan Editor Defect
  • Agency Accounting System Changes
  • Annual ICD-10 Diagnosis Code Updates
  • SSIS mentor of the month: Kelly Madsen
  • SSIS Tip
  • SSIS coffee talk sessions
  • SSIS training opportunities

SSIS Update Issue 617

11/28/2023

  • Intakes Needing Action Log – Intake Purge
  • Refrain from adding or making changes to MMIS service agreements December 1-6, 2023
  • SSIS Partnership
  • Out-of-home placement plan review
  • SSIS tip: Helpful SSIS reference materials
  • SSIS coffee talk sessions
  • SSIS training opportunities

SSIS Update Issue 616

11/15/2023

  • SSIS Business Operations employment opportunities
  • New In-Home Family Support Plan (Child Protective Service Plan)
  • Save and restore user settings prior to Statewide Release
  • Children in the care of non-custodial parents
  • SSIS Tip: HELP TEXT
  • Refrain from adding or making changes to MMIS service agreements December 1-6, 2023
  • Client Eligibility Log eLearning now available
  • SSIS coffee talk sessions
  • SSIS training opportunities

SSIS Update Issue 615

10/31/2023

  • Financially and legally responsible agencies
  • QRTP Flow Chart
  • SSIS tip: Action buttons
  • Upcoming SSIS Employment Opportunities
  • SSIS coffee talk sessions
  • SSIS training opportunities

SSIS Update Issue 614

10/17/2023

  • Targeted Case Management (TCM) interactive video (ITV) denied claims update
  • Requesting PMI pushes in SSIS
  • Submitting tickets to the SSIS Help Desk
  • SSIS Tip: Adult Protection Interventions tab
  • SSIS coffee talk sessions
  • SSIS training opportunities

SSIS Update Issue 613

10/3/2023

  • SSIS mentor of the month: Terri Quittschreiber
  • Join our Team! SSIS Business Operations is hiring
  • Adult Protection SSIS User Guide Updated
  • Extended Foster Care Best Practice Guide now available
  • SSIS Tips: MIFPA notices and the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA)
  • Reminder: Saving in Expanded Editor
  • Reminder: Timelines Reduced for AFCARS
  • SSIS coffee talk sessions
  • SSIS training opportunities
  • Minnesota Child Welfare Training Academy (MNCWTA) training opportunities

SSIS Update Issue 612

9/19/2023

  • Family First Prevention Services Act (FFPSA) CW-TCM and Title IV-E Prevention Services Claiming
  • SSIS Tip: Filtering and searching for keywords within grid search results
  • SSIS coffee talk sessions
  • SSIS training opportunities
  • Minnesota Child Welfare Training Academy (MNCWTA) training opportunities

SSIS Update Issue 611

9/6/2023

  • Changes to Extended Placement Review (EPR)
  • Pre and Post adoptive identity in SSIS
  • Extended Foster Care Best Practice Guide
  • Chafee program videos
  • National Youth in Transition Database 17-year-old surveys
  • MNYTD data entry in SSIS
  • Agency Accounting System Changes
  • SSIS Tip: Drag and Drop to Copy Address
  • SSIS Resource page
  • September and October SSIS coffee talk sessions

SSIS Update Issue 610

8/23/2023

  • SSIS agency contact lists
  • Enhanced Password Security
  • SSIS Mentor of the Month: Sandy Block
  • SSIS tip of the week
  • Upcoming SSIS coffee talk sessions

SSIS Update Issue 609

8/8/2023

  • Password resets
  • Using the multi-select function in SSIS
  • Save user settings prior to Statewide Release v23.3
  • Upcoming SSIS coffee talk sessions
  • SSIS training opportunities

SSIS Update Issue 608

7/25/2023

  • Known Defect – Time to Initial Contact with Victims Report
  • SSIS Adult Protection Worker Training
  • 180 Degrees - Conditional License
  • Agency site visits by SSIS staff
  • Upcoming SSIS coffee talk sessions
  • SSIS training opportunities

SSIS Update Issue 607

7/11/2023

  • Pilot agencies needed
  • Northstar Care for Children Rates - SFY 2024
  • Clarification of APA review in light of Supreme Court decision on Indian Child Welfare Act
  • Sending Attached Documents from SSIS-Worker to SSIS-DHS
  • Finalizing permanency while residing in a QRTP
  • BRASS 180 – Treatment Foster Care
  • Adult Protection SSIS User Guide
  • New permanency training dates announced
  • Upcoming SSIS coffee talk sessions
  • SSIS training opportunities

SSIS Update Issue 606

6/27/2023

  • •  Sending attached documents from SSIS worker to SSIS DHS
  • •  SSIS eLearning Training Modules
  • •  New features added to SSIS APS Essentials courses
  • •  Upcoming SSIS coffee talk sessions
  • •  SSIS training opportunities

SSIS Update Issue 605

6/13/2023

  • •  Targeted Case Management (TCM) interactive video (ITV) billing update
  • •  SSIS Help Desk closed June 19
  • •  Upcoming SSIS coffee talk sessions
  • •  SSIS local agency visits
  • •  SSIS training opportunities

SSIS Update Issue 604

5/31/2023

  • SSIS Security Enhancements
  • Client-Related Expenditures in SSIS
  • SSIS Resource page
  • Targeted Case Management (TCM) New Interactive Video (ITV) Standards
  • Upcoming SSIS coffee talk sessions

SSIS Update Issue 603

5/17/2023

  • Open Placements with Unlicensed Provider Report defect
  • COVID-19 Related Sub-Service Code 87
  • Pre-Northstar Foster Care Program Maintenance Rates
  • New Contact Methods for Interactive Video (ITV)
  • Targeted Case Management (TCM) Services in Family and Permanency Team Meeting
  • Best Wishes Molly Koehler
  • Welcome Tracy Omlie
  • Upcoming SSIS coffee talk sessions

SSIS Update Issue 602

5/2/2023

  • Northstar Basic and Supplemental rates
  • Deletions in SSIS
  • Physical Location required in SSIS
  • At-Risk Adoption and Post Permanency resource now available
  • Employment opportunity
  • SSIS coffee talk: Statewide Release v23.2
  • SSIS coffee talk resources

SSIS Update Issue 601

4/20/2023

  • Thank you Pilot agencies
  • FFPSA Title IVE Prevention claiming update
  • Targeted case management (TCM) provider interactive video assurance statement update
  • SSIS Learning and Development Unit site visits
  • Court orders for expungement of SSIS data
  • Revised bulletin: Northstar Care for Children payment rates
  • SSIS Fiscal staff available for technical assistance
  • SSIS coffee talk: Statewide Release v23.2

SSIS Update Issue 600

4/4/2023

  • QRTP Family and Permanency Team Meeting
  • April SSIS coffee talk: Open Discussion
  • Communications survey coming

SSIS Update Issue 599

3/21/2023

  • Quarter 1, 2023 Child Foster Care Reporting
  • Child Foster Care Report (CFCR)Title IV-E Recoveries Job Aid
  • Fiscal new worker eLearning series
  • Register now for April’s open discussion coffee talk

SSIS Update Issue 598

3/8/2023

  • Bulletin 22-53-02R Revised: Children’s Mental Health Residential Services Path (3rd Path)
  • Notice of Conditional license
  • Update for Targeted Case Management Providers: federal public health emergency (PHE) ends May 11, 2023
  • Updated adoption documents available on eDocs and in SSIS
  • Document Redaction TIP - Redaction Text is editable
  • SSIS assistance for agency users
  • SSIS coffee talk: Adoption and Foster Care Analysis and Reporting System (AFCARS) 101

SSIS Update Issue 597

2/22/2023

  • Errors when Copying Out of Home Placement Plans (OHPP) or Children’s Mental Health (CMH) Individual Family Community Support Plans (IFCSP) related to Education fields
  • COVID FMAP phase out
  • Children’s Mental Health Screenings – please update
  • DHS Aging and Adult Services and Disability Services divisions end of the federal public health emergency and wind down of current COVID-19 waivers
  • SSIS coffee talk: Adoption and Foster Care Analysis and Reporting System (AFCARS) 101
  • Adult Protection SSIS User Guide update

SSIS Update Issue 596

2/7/2023

  • SSIS Business Operations employment opportunities
  • Certified Residential Facility rates and contracts
  • Update for Targeted Case Management providers: federal public health emergency extended
  • Adult Protective Services Program Type
  • 2023 Mental Health Billable Diagnosis Codes
  • Upcoming SSIS outage and updates
  • SSIS coffee talk: Statewide Release v23.1
  • SSIS training opportunities

SSIS Update Issue 595

1/30/2023

  • QRTP Placement Setting and Reason
  • SSIS open discussion coffee talk rescheduled
  • MNIT Testing Alternatives to Horizon
  • SSIS training opportunities

SSIS Update Issue 594

1/11/2023

  • Pilot agencies needed for SSIS v23.1
  • Monthly caseworker visits
  • 2023 monthly State reporting schedule
  • SSIS technical assistance available
  • January SSIS Coffee Talk Opportunity
  • SSIS Essentials eLearning courses
  • Child Protection New Worker Training
  • SSIS training opportunities

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