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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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SSIS Update Issue 554 | 6/16/2021 |
- SSIS for Emergency Adult Protective Services (EPS)
- Reminder regarding agency accounting system server changes
- Background study updates
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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SSIS Update Issue 546 | 2/24/2021 |
- Friendly reminder
- Reminder to save and restore user settings prior to 21.1 release
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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