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Title

Date

Topics

SSIS Update Issue 587

9/21/2022

  • Changes to relative engagement and relative search practices for children in foster care
  • AFCARS changes: Reduced timelines
  • SSIS Horizon farm update
  • Reporting SSIS technical issues
  • SSIS Purge Rules
  • Agency accounting system server changes

SSIS Update Issue 586

9/6/2022

  • SSIS Horizon farm update
  • Planned firewall hardware upgrade
  • Oracle Upgrade
  • Do not enter unborn children as participants in Intakes or Workgroups
  • MNIT mailbox passwords
  • SSIS Coffee Talk: Adoptions in SSIS

SSIS Update Issue 585

8/23/2022

  • Reminder regarding agency accounting system server changes
  • Images are not supported in SSIS text fields
  • Annual password update
  • Thank you, Dakota County
  • SSIS Release Version 22.3
  • Reminder to save and restore user settings prior to Statewide release v22.3
  • Horizon Client update to Horizon 8 – Client 2111
  • September’s SSIS Coffee Talk: Adoptions in SSIS

SSIS Update Issue 584

8/9/2022

  • “Child Protection (CP) Timeline Exception” activity to be inactivated
  • Tip: Mark favorite icons for easier access to SSIS
  • Tip: Using the Cascade feature in SSIS
  • New SSIS coffee talks scheduled for August and September
  • SSIS Workgroup documentation

SSIS Update Issue 583

7/26/2022

  • Adult Protection Services
  • Using Tableau to retrieve CP maltreatment timeliness data
  • SSIS mentor roles and responsibilities
  • SSIS Statewide Release v22.3
  • Save and restore SSIS user settings prior to Statewide Releases

SSIS Update Issue 582

7/13/2022

  • Statewide Release v22.3
  • Expectant or parenting youth
  • When to use Safe Place for Newborns in SSIS as a removal condition
  • FFPSA: Group facility settings split payments
  • Using Tableau to retrieve CP maltreatment timeliness data
  • FFPSA documentation of residential placements in SSIS
  • Mourning the loss of an SSIS colleague
  • SSIS mentor contact lists
  • Upcoming SSIS coffee talks – We’d like to hear from you

SSIS Update Issue 581

6/29/2022

  • SSIS Special Release Wednesday, June 29
  • Performance Update
  • Reporting incidents of slowness or freezing in SSIS
  • ‘All clear’ to resume entering and changing MMIS service agreements
  • Disability Waiver Rate System (DWRS) cost reporting
  • Clarification: required information and engagement of family and permanency team necessary to complete QRTP assessments
  • IV-E and SSIS coffee talk resources now available

SSIS Update Issue 580

6/15/2022

  • SSIS staff changes
  • Northstar Eligibility Determinations and Benefit Agreements
  • New SSIS guide for PSOP workers
  • Refrain from adding or making changes to MMIS service agreements
  • Using Tableau to retrieve CP maltreatment timeliness data
  • Child Abuse Summit August 22-24, 2022
  • SSIS coffee talks

SSIS Update Issue 579

5/31/2022

  • Thank you pilot agencies
  • SSIS Statewide Release v22.2
  • Using Tableau to retrieve CP maltreatment timeliness data
  • Copying OHPP or CMH Individual Family Community Support Plans
  • Service Plan Tip
  • HTML Document Print Error Issue
  • Performance Update
  • Child Abuse Summit August 22-24, 2022
  • Fiscal New Worker eLearnings now available
  • SSIS coffee talks

SSIS Update Issue 578

5/18/2022

  • Waiver for videoconferencing of monthly caseworker visits
  • Minnesota Department of Human (DHS) bulletins
  • Out of Home Placement Plans (OHPP) copying issues
  • OHPP practice guide
  • OHPP tip
  • SSIS coffee talks
  • SSIS training opportunities

SSIS Update Issue 577

5/4/2022

  • Performance update
  • SSIS pilot v22.2
  • Northstar Basic and Supplemental rates update
  • Children in the care of non-custodial parents
  • FAQ for Children’s Mental Health Residential Services Path now available
  • Statewide release deployment
  • SSIS coffee talks
  • SSIS training opportunities

SSIS Update Issue 576

4/19/2022

  • Performance update
  • Pilot agencies to tackle SSIS v22.2
  • Charting and Analysis decommissioning
  • SSIS partnership meeting
  • SSIS training cancellations
  • Upcoming SSIS coffee talks
  • SSIS Training Opportunities

SSIS Update Issue 575

4/6/2022

  • Seeking pilot agencies for statewide release v22.2
  • Timely Transition of SSIS Workgroups when changing programs
  • Reminder regarding agency accounting system server changes
  • DHS Bulletins
  • Upcoming SSIS coffee talks
  • SSIS Training Opportunities

SSIS Update Issue 574

3/22/2022

  • Performance Update
  • Horizon environment migration project
  • Children in the care of non-custodial parents
  • Help Text in SSIS
  • CP Timeline Exception Code and Timeliness Related report Updates
  • SSIS ICWA coffee Talk Postponed
  • Register now for upcoming SSIS coffee talks
  • SSIS Training Opportunities

SSIS Update Issue 573

3/8/2022

  • Family First Residential Placement Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ’s)
  • Family First Prevention Services Act (FFPSA) Resource Guide
  • Horizon version 5.5.3
  • Entering Children’s Mental Health (CMH) Screening data
  • Revised SSIS Adult Maltreatment Module
  • Child Protection Timeline Exception activity
  • SSIS Fiscal staff available for technical assistance
  • SSIS Coffee Talk opportunity: Grids and General Reports in SSIS
  • Fiscal New Worker eLearning opportunity
  • Child Maltreatment Report tutorial
  • SSIS Release Version 22.1
  • SSIS Training Opportunities

SSIS Update Issue 572

2/23/2022

  • Performance Update
  • Reporting SSIS performance issues
  • SSIS Release Version 22.1
  • Thank you Pilot agencies
  • SSIS tip: Horizon client version
  • Statewide Case Access
  • SSIS Coffee Talk opportunity: Grids and General Reports in SSIS
  • SSIS Training Opportunities

SSIS Update Issue 571

2/8/2022

  • SSIS connection incident and performance update
  • SSIS mentor coffee talk opportunities
  • SSIS Training Opportunities
  • Coffee talk resources now available: SSIS Tips, Tricks, and Issues
  • Adoption and kinship training opportunities
  • Social and medical history document series: Efforts to identify American Indian ancestry
  • Adoption and Foster Care Analysis and Reporting System (AFCARS) SSIS placement guide
  • SSIS Help Desk assistance
  • Best Practice when resetting a password or creating/changing in in Admin
  • Out of Home Placement Plans (OHPP)
  • SSIS Worker Documentation Page

SSIS Update Issue 570

1/25/2022

  • SSIS mentor coffee talks scheduled for 2022
  • SSIS training opportunities
  • SSIS job opportunity
  • Out of Home Placement Plans (OHPP): agency feedback needed
  • BRASS code 691 - AC/EW/CAC/CADI/BI case management
  • SSIS performance update

SSIS Update Issue 569

1/12/2022

  • Seeking Pilot Agencies for V22.1
  • Family First Prevention Services Act and Child Foster Care Report Updates
  • 2022 SSIS monthly upload and state reporting schedule
  • SSIS Mentor Coffee Talk: SSIS Tips, Tricks and Issues
  • SSIS mentor contact lists
  • SSIS password security requirements

SSIS Update Issue 568

12/30/2021

  • ‘All clear’ to resume entering and changing MMIS service agreements
  • Minnesota Health Care Programs (MHCP) training opportunities
  • MHCP Claim Deadlines CY 2022
  • Welcome SSIS Worker Subject Matter Experts
  • Subscribe to Minnesota Information Technology (MNIT) Service Alerts
  • “Known” Microsoft secure email issue
  • Network Service Interruption

SSIS Update Issue 567 (Revised)

12/14/2021

  • SSIS outage: December 6, 2021
  • SSIS Performance Update: December 14, 2021
  • Updates to BRASS Services and Associated HCPCS Codes for 2022
  • Refrain from adding or making changes to MMIS service agreements
  • New FFPSA claimable activity
  • Agency SSIS mentor, coordinator and IT contact lists
  • Certified Residential Facility rates and contracts
  • 2021-2022 Mental Health Billable Diagnosis Codes
  • SSIS Tip: Inactivate old Service Arrangements
  • New Active Directory groups
  • SSIS Statewide Release v21.4
  • Child Protection courses
  • Adult Protection courses
  • Fiscal New Worker eLearnings and virtual training
  • SSIS Relative Search
  • Quick links

SSIS Update Issue 566

11/30/2021

  • SSIS for Adult Protection Services-afterhours Emergency Protective Services email notifications
  • Expectant/Parenting Youth information data cleanup
  • SSIS Statewide Release v21.4
  • NEW SSIS Mentor Manual
  • SSIS Essentials redesign
  • SSIS slowness update
  • Preparing SSIS for 2022

SSIS Update Issue 565

11/16/2021

  • Relative Search webinar
  • SSIS Essentials redesign
  • SSIS slowness update
  • Preparing SSIS for 2022
  • Save and restore user settings prior to V21.4 statewide release November 30th.

SSIS Update Issue 564

11/4/2021

  • SSIS Slowness Update
  • Temporary changes to extended foster care
  • Preparing SSIS for 2022
  • Foster care maintenance payments for foster residence settings
  • FFPSA residential services web page
  • Correcting Repository Error 4008
  • Save and restore user settings prior to V21.4 statewide release November 30th.
  • SSIS tip: ICWA Determination in OHPPs
  • Relative Search webinar

SSIS Update Issue 563

10/19/2021

  • Seeking pilot agencies for SSIS v21.4
  • Family First Prevention Services Act (FFPSA) and IV-E approved facilities
  • SSIS Updates Scheduled for Saturday, October 23
  • Accurate entry of a Contact Activity: Status field
  • Adult Protection Worker Module EPS E-mail Notification Coming in v21.4
  • SSIS Technical Issues
  • SSIS mentor roles and responsibilities
  • SSIS Child Protection Basics
  • Family First Prevention Services Act (FFPSA) webinars and reference materials

SSIS Update Issue 562

10/5/2021

  • Family First Prevention Services Act (FFPSA) Webinar Added
  • We want to hear from you about your child welfare caseload and workload
  • Seeking pilot agencies for SSIS v21.4
  • New SUD Treatment Coordination job aid
  • Statutory exceptions for face to face contact
  • SSIS instruction for documenting face to face contact exceptions
  • Service rate and budget changes effective Oct. 1
  • SSIS Webinar Materials
  • SSIS Adult Protection Worker Training and Modules
  • SSIS Child Protection Basics
  • MAPCY
  • Background study updates

SSIS Updated Issue 561

9/22/2021

  • Family First Preventive Services Act (FFPSA) documentation now available on SSIS Resource page
  • Family First Prevention Services Act (FFPSA) Policy and SSIS Webinar Series
  • Sexually Exploited Youth/Sexually Trafficked Youth (SEY/STY) Tutorial Update
  • Substance Abuse Disorder – Treatment Coordination now available in SSIS
  • SSIS Adult Protection Worker Training and Modules
  • Staff Activity Changes in 21.3
  • SSIS Child Protection Basics
  • SSIS statewide release version 21.3
  • Thank you Pilot Counties
  • SSIS Person Merge Issue Resolved
  • Temporary Expansion of Extended Foster Care: Title IV-E, Northstar Care, and Chafee Revenue
  • Background study updates

SSIS Updated Issue 560

9/7/2021

  • Temporary changes and supplemental funding for Successful Transition to Adulthood for Youth (STAY) program continues until September 30, 2021

SSIS Updated Issue 559

8/24/2021

  • SSIS Adoption Income Offsets
  • Sub-Service Code- 87 - COVID-19, Related; Update
  • Family First Prevention Services Act (FFPSA) Policy and SSIS Webinar Series
  • SSIS daily interface schedule
  • SSIS Adult Protection Training
  • The Improve Group Caseload Study workshop
  • Relative Custody Assistance phase-out and reporting requirements
  • SSIS Fiscal staff available for technical assistance
  • Reminder to save and restore user settings prior to V21.3 release
  • Background study updates

SSIS Updated Issue 558

8/12/2021

  • Family First Prevention Services Act (FFPSA) Policy and SSIS Webinar Series
  • Statutory exceptions for face to face contact
  • SSIS instruction for documenting face to face contact exceptions
  • The Improve Group Caseload Study workshop Friday, September 10
  • SSIS Tip: Filtering and searching for keywords within grid search results
  • SSIS passwords: “Server Threw Exception” error
  • Background study updated

SSIS Updated Issue 557

7/27/2021

  • Family First Prevention Services Act (FFPSA) Webinar Series Launches August 5th
  • Family First Prevention Services Act (FFPSA) Coffee Talk Webinars for SSIS Mentors
  • Agency SSIS mentor, coordinator and IT contact lists
  • Increased password security requirement in SSIS
  • Background study updates

SSIS Updated Issue 556

7/13/2021

  • CV24 Waiver Remains in Effect until August 30th, 2021
  • Seeking pilot agencies for SSIS version 21.3
  • SSIS Tip: Generate Data Integrity reports regularly
  • New Statutory exceptions for face to face contact
  • Background study updates

SSIS Updated Issue 555

6/30/2021

  • Seeking pilot agencies for SSIS version 21.3
  • SSIS Tip: Merging multiple PM numbers
  • SSIS and ICWA coffee talk recordings now available
  • Child welfare services cases and workload study
  • SSIS training: webinars, coffee talks, & virtual training updates
  • Background study updates

SSIS Update Issue 554

6/16/2021

  • SSIS for Emergency Adult Protective Services (EPS)
  • Reminder regarding agency accounting system server changes
  • Background study updates

SSIS Updated Issue 553

6/2/2021

  • SSIS enhancement requests regarding “gender”
  • FAR CARES funding
  • COVID-related expenditures tracking process
  • Save and restore SSIS user settings prior to Statewide Releases
  • Statewide Release v21.2
  • Welcome New SSIS Help Desk staff
  • Background study updates

SSIS Update Issue 552

5/18/2021

  • SSIS Waiver related expenditures
  • SSIS Coffee Talk: Statewide Release v21.2
  • Temporary Changes allow Youth to Remain in/re-enter foster care during the Pandemic
  • Targeted Case Management for Internship/Volunteer Staff
  • SSIS Adult Maltreatment Module
  • SSIS Statewide release v21.2
  • Background study updates

SSIS Update Issue 551

5/5/2021

  • Caseworker caseload study workgroup
  • SSIS Repository Updates
  • SSIS V21.2 Pilot
  • SFY 21-22 Northstar and Group Facility Rates
  • Background study updated

SSIS Update Issue 550

4/21/2021

  • DHS Bulletins
  • Resetting worker passwords in SSIS
  • Subscribe to the SSIS Update newsletter
  • SSIS Tip: Password rules
  • Background study updates

SSIS Update Issue 549

4/6/2021

  • Seeking V21.2 Pilot Agencies
  • Sexually Exploited Youth (SEY) and Sexually Trafficked Youth (STY) and children in SSIS resources updated
  • CCWIS Coordinator Position Vacancy
  • SSIS Help Desk positions open
  • SSIS Coffee Talk: Claiming, Approvals and Denials in SSIS and MMIS
  • SSIS Update Job Aide: Best Practices for Sibling Entry FAQ
  • SSIS Adult Protection Worker training
  • Background study updates

SSIS Update Issue 548

3/24/2021

  • Adult Protection and SSIS Frequently Asked Questions and Release V21.1
  • SSIS V21.1 Special Release Announcement
  • SSIS Coffee Talk Claiming, Approvals and Denials in SSIS and MMIS
  • Register now for Upcoming SSIS Coffee Talks
  • Sexually Exploited Youth (SEY) and Sexually Trafficked Youth (STY) and children in SSIS
  • SSIS Adult Protection Worker training
  • Thank you pilot agencies
  • Caseload/Workload Study
  • Family First background check compliance update: State resumes emergency background studies

SSIS Updated Issue 547

3/9/2021

  • Red Lake Nation is now an American Indian Child Welfare Initiative Tribe
  • Register now for Upcoming SSIS Coffee Talks
  • Sexually Exploited Youth (SEY) and Sexually Trafficked Youth (STY) and children in SSIS
  • SSIS Adult Protection Worker training
  • SSIS Posted Payments Updated Job Aide
  • Attention Host Agencies of Certified Residential Facilities – Friendly Reminder

SSIS Update Issue 546

2/24/2021

  • Friendly reminder
  • Reminder to save and restore user settings prior to 21.1 release

SSIS Update Issue 545

1/26/2021

  • SSIS Adult Protection Worker training available
  • Bulletin 21-68-01 Family First Prevention Services Act: Potential Title IV-E Fiscal Impact
  • Reminder to save and restore user settings prior to 21.1 release
  • Register for ICWA Coffee Talk
  • Family First background check compliance update: State resumes emergency background studies

SSIS Update Issue 544

1/12/2021

  • New database for COVID-related program modifications and waivers now available
  • “All clear” to authorize streamlined CADI service agreements
  • Seeking pilot agencies for SSIS V21.1
  • DHS Bulletin 21-21-01 announces automatic Medical Assistance eligibility for children in foster care or receiving Northstar Kinship Assistance.
  • Register for ICWA Coffee Talk
  • Family First background check compliance update: State resumes emergency background studies

SSIS Update Issue 543

12/31/2020

  • New Activity added to BRASS 104 and 108 for Child Protection Initial Responses in SSIS
  • ICWA Coffee Talk series to resume in January.
  • FINAL Training Opportunity: Alternatives to Face to Face Service Delivery training for TCM providers
  • SSIS Tip: SSIS Payment Batch Edit Report
  • SSIS Tip: Bulk inactivate old service arrangements
  • Family First background check compliance update: State resumes emergency background studies

SSIS Update Issue 542

12/16/2020

  • SSIS Adult Protection FAQ updated
  • Register for SSIS Coffee Talk Tuesday
  • It's time to update annual preferences in SSIS Admin
  • MAPCY tutorial updated
  • Client Eligibility Log tutorial updated
  • ICWA/MIFPA Data Entry tutorial updated
  • Sibling entry in SSIS
  • 2021 SSIS Monthly Upload and State Reporting Schedule
  • 2021 Minnesota Health Care Programs (MHCP) Payment & Claims Cut-off calendars
  • Family First background check compliance update: State resumes emergency background studies
  • SSIS tips & tricks: Adding worker credentials to workgroup documents

SSIS Update Issue 541

12/1/2020

  • SSIS statewide release version 20.4
  • Request for coordination with third-party vendors
  • Reminder regarding county accounting system server changes
  • When to use “reestablishment of parental rights” in SSIS
  • SSIS Fiscal staff available for technical assistance
  • SSIS Coffee Talk Tuesday webinar available on demand
  • Register for a Child Welfare Training Academy listening session
  • Child Welfare Training Academy open positions
  • Family First background check compliance update

SSIS Update Issue 540

11/17/2020

  • Alternatives to face-to-face service delivery training for TCM providers
  • New ICWA/MIFPA brochure available
  • Mentor reminder: SSIS training assessment
  • Mentors: Adult protection and SSIS statewide release V20.4
  • Family First background check compliance update

SSIS Update Issue 539

11/3/2020

  • Intermittent technical issue impacting MAARC e-mail notifications
  • SSIS Coffee Talk Tuesday for Mentors: Adult protection and SSIS statewide release V20.4
  • SSIS Coffee Talk presentations now available on-demand
  • Family First background check compliance update
  • Documenting COVID-19 Child Protection initial responses in SSIS

SSIS Update Issue 538

10/20/2020

  • Update: Statewide healthcare batch interface disabled
  • Federal Medicaid Assistance percentages increase to extend through Q1 2021
  • Family First background check compliance update

SSIS Update Issue 537

10/6/2020

  • Seeking pilot agencies for SSIS V20.4
  • Out of state Title IV-E Group Residential placement safety verification
  • SSIS mentor roles and responsibilities
  • Technical issue with Adult Maltreatment Report
  • MAPCY Coffee Talk follow-up information
  • Family First background check compliance update

SSIS Update Issue 536

9/23/2020

  • Reminder: Continue to use COVID-19 sub-service code
  • Intermittent technical issue impacting MAARC e-mail notifications
  • Documenting FASD screening in SSIS
  • SSIS Coffee Talk Tuesday for Mentors: MAPCY post permanency
  • New Pregnant and Parenting Youth screen
  • Annual password update
  • SSIS worker documentation updated
  • Child Welfare Training Academy open positions
  • Family First background check compliance update

SSIS Update Issue 535

9/9/2020

  • Physical Location Addition to SSIS
  • Technical issue with adult maltreatment report- Update
  • Family First background check compliance update

SSIS Update Issue 534

8/25/2020

  • Statewide release of SSIS version 20.3
  • Coffee Talk Tuesdays for mentors
  • Technical issue with adult maltreatment report
  • Relative Custody Assistance phase-out and reporting requirements
  • SSIS documentation updated
  • SSIS tip: When to use Revise MAPCY versus Copy MAPCY versus Delete MAPCY
  • Adoption Assistance and ICWA eligibility
  • Op-ed: Life as a pilot county
  • Open Position: Graphic Designer
  • SSIS Fiscal staff available for technical assistance
  • Family First background check compliance update

SSIS Update Issue 533

8/12/2020

  • SSIS Coffee Talk Tuesday for Mentors: Upcoming sessions
  • SSIS Tip: MAPCY FAQs from worker through fiscal
  • Are you unable to use the 10 Key while in SSIS?
  • Documenting FASD Screening in SSIS
  • Family First background check compliance update

SSIS Update Issue 532

7/29/2020

  • Data Fix Requests: Moving Case notes & Activities
  • Adult Protection SDM® and Standardized Tools Videos released
  • Known Issue: External Documents for the MN Revisor website
  • Call for mentor and technical contact updates
  • Family First background check compliance update

SSIS Update Issue 531

7/8/2020

  • SSIS Coffee Talk Tuesday for Fiscal and Worker Mentors
  • Seeking pilot agencies for SSIS V20.3
  • New data integrity report in SSIS V20.3

SSIS Update Issue 530

6/23/2020

  • SSIS Adult Protection FAQ updated
  • New job aide available for Title IV-E Group Provider Search and CRF background studies requirements
  • SSIS Tip: Tracking COVID-19 sub-service code

SSIS Update Issue 529

6/10/2020

  • COVID-19 Peacetime waiver and resuming standard reporting practices during Peacetime Emergency
  • Reimbursement for placements in out-of-state CRF's
  • Seeking SSIS V20.3 pilot agencies
  • SSIS context help links broken
  • SSIS V20.2 release notes updated

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