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Date: Sept. 11, 2020
To: Lead agency staff, home and community-based services (HCBS) providers, disability service advocacy organizations and all interested stakeholders
From: DHS Disability Services Division
Purpose: To announce updated COVID-19 guidance for day training and habilitation (DT&H), prevocational services and structured day services in day service facilities and the community
Effective: Aug. 12, 2020
Contact: dsd.responsecenter@state.mn.us or DHS HCBS Licensing Help Desk at 651-431-6624
DHS recently published Bulletin #20-56-09: Turning the dial on day services for adults with disabilities (August 2020 update) (PDF). The bulletin provides lead agencies and waiver day service providers with information about additional flexibilities for delivering DT&H, prevocational services and structured day services during the COVID-19 pandemic.
This guidance is effective Aug. 12, 2020, and lasts the duration of the peacetime emergency.
Note: This guidance does not apply to adult day services.
Visit CBSM – What's new often for a list of policies/pages we've recently updated
in the Community-Based Services Manual (CBSM).
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