If you use
the MnCHOICES CountyLink page, and we hope you do, make sure to take a look at
the new section devoted to tools and
guidance for rolling out MnCHOICES Reassessments. It includes the following documents at this
time:
There are
several new online courses in TrainLink
that will help Certified Assessors who are “Integrating Work and Benefits in Person-Centered Planning.” The training will help you integrate person-centered
techniques and spark the culture change needed to support the people you
serve! There are four courses which must
be taken in order:
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Introduction – Introduces new expectations around work and what we need to do to support the changes
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Think Differently – Helps align thoughts, challenge misconceptions and debunk myths about employment and benefits
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Communicate Differently – Helps strengthen abilities to provide engaging positive messaging about work
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Work Differently – Describes strategies to integrate person centered planning approaches
The Case
Manager’s Recipient Information form is now available in eDocs as DHS-7185. This document can be used by a case manager
who is not a certified assessor to provider information about a recipient prior
to the recipient’s initial “Reassessment” in MnCHOICES.
We all know
that to create a strong password we are encouraged to use both upper and lower
case letters, numbers and symbols.
However, using certain symbols in your SSIS or MnCHOICES passwords can
cause issues especially when opening MnCHOICES from SSIS. In addition, it can cause errors in saving
your password correctly when going from online to offline mode. Here are the dos and don’ts:
Do use:
- Equivalent, squiggly, twiddle or tilde ~
- Exclamation mark !
- At symbol @
- Number, pound, sharp or hash #
- Caret, cursor or circumflex ^
- Asterisk or star *
- Underscore _
- Hyphen, minus or dash -
Do not use:
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Apostrophes or single quote ‘
- Quotation marks “ ”
- Comma ,
- Open or closed parentheses ( )
- Equals sign =
The deadline
to submit initial information for each agency’s MnCHOICES Interagency Contact
Point (MICP) has passed. If your agency
did not yet submit this information, please do it immediately. If there is a reason you are not able to
submit all the information now, complete the survey
with information you know and tell us the date you estimate you will have
complete information including dedicated and secure:
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Phone number
- Fax number
- Email address
The MICP list is posted on the MnCHOICES CountyLink page under
the Reassessment section in CountyLink.
If and when changes are needed to your MICP information, use the survey
to provide the update.
MnCHOICES CountyLink
page has many new and updated tools and guidance to support you and the work
you do in MnCHOICES. You might just want
to take a look at:
New:
Updated:
My DB101 is a new feature
that allows people to create their own
personal view in Disability Benefits 101 (DB101). With My DB101 they can add and save their
favorite articles, tools and recent estimator sessions. After creating a My DB101 account they can
log in and:
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Save articles and tools just by clicking Add to favorites
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Automatically save all DB101 Estimator Sessions
- Look under Recent Sessions and click on Get older saved sessions to get estimator session created before 7/1/2015
The DHS MnCHOICES
Team proudly considers all lead agencies and their staff as an important
extension of our team. Often, we need to
reach out to you to inquire about your potential
interest to work more closely with us on a short or long-term basis. Sometimes it is a more formal arrangement and
we need to go through a formal process such as we are currently doing to
establish a MnCHOICES Advisory Committee.
Other times, it does not happen with formality. If you, or your agency, have a desire to
occasionally work with us, please send us an email with your contact information
including:
- First and last name
- Agency
- Phone number including area code
- Email address
- Your role(s) with MnCHOICES
- Potential areas of interest for working with DHS such as:
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Pilot new releases of MnCHOICES before statewide release
- Test new training before it goes live
- Provide a “real” assessment experience by allowing DHS staff to shadow with an assessor
We will keep
the contact information on file for those times when we need to reach out for
your assistance. Thanks for your
consideration!
On October 1, 2015, the transition process from ICD-9 to
ICD-10 codes for home and community-based services began. Important information is found in Bulletin
#15-25-11. While the entire bulletin
has essential information, assessors may want to pay particular attention to Section VII: Sources of Diagnostic Codes. It includes a table with codes that can be
used by assessors to complete screening documents and service agreements, if they
are not able to obtain a diagnosis from a medical record.
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