The Minnesota Department of Human Services Behavioral Health Division is continuing to update the Mental Health Targeted Case Management (MH TCM) Rule 79 training. In addition to the current offerings, the Behavioral Health Division is adding the fall 2023 training series.

Through this training series, case managers will demonstrate an increased knowledge and skillset in providing adult and children’s case management services. This training is designed to enhance the case manager’s ability to integrate equity and person-centered practices into their everyday work with the people they serve.

Rule 79 Case Management Training details

In order to qualify for completion of training, enrollees must attend one of each of the following two classes. The capacity for each date is 100 enrollees.

BH121:  Characteristics and Needs with an Equity Lens (Instructor: Jessica Kisling) 

• Nov. 2, 2023, from 12:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.
• Nov. 30, 2023, from 12:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.

BH122:  Case Management Skills (Instructor: Matt Johnson)

• Oct. 25, 2023, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.
• Dec. 6, 2023, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.

The Adult Mental Health and Children’s Mental Health Targeted Case Management Rule 79 curriculum includes:

• Collaborative strategies that empower the person served
• Case manager roles and responsibilities
• Case management eligibility requirements
• Characteristics of adults with a severe and persistent mental illness (SPMI)
• Characteristics of children with a severe emotional disturbance (SED)
• Billable case management activities
• Legal and ethical aspects of practice
• Case management process
• Risk and crisis assessment
• Equity-based mental health case management practice

Consistent with Minnesota’s mission to become an anti-racist state, the Mental Health Targeted Case Management curriculum contains content that promotes equity and diversity.

Target audience: This training series is solely for adult and children’s mental health targeted case managers who have not had 2,000 hours of supervised experience in the delivery of mental health services to adults with mental illness or children with a severe emotional disturbance. Enrolled learners must have 40 hours of commissioner-approved adult mental health or children’s mental health targeted case management Rule 79 training.

Reference: The Adult Mental Health Act, Minn. Stat. 245.462, subd. 4(e)(2), and the Children’s Mental Health Act, Minn. Stat., 245.4871, subd. 4(f), require adult and children’s mental health targeted case managers who have not had 2,000 hours of supervised experience in the delivery of mental health services to adults with mental illness or children with a severe emotional disturbance, to have 40 hours of commissioner-approved adult mental health or children’s mental health targeted case management Rule 79 training.

This curriculum has been approved by the commissioner and meets the legal content requirement outlined below. Enrollees who attend both of the four-hour trainings will earn a certificate of completion provided by DHS.