About the Disability Services Division
The Disability Services Division is part of the Minnesota Department of Human Services Continuing Care Administration (CCA). Disability Services Division manages publicly funded programs that support people with a variety of disabilities. Disabilities include developmental disabilities, chronic medical conditions, acquired or traumatic brain injuries and physical disabilities.
Disability Services Division recognizes the importance of helping people live where they choose, with appropriate services that assure their health and safety. Community-based services promote individual and family self-sufficiency and maintain an individual's or family's optimum level of independence in the community. Services include home care, residential and work-related services.
Disability Services Division also includes the HIV/AIDS Unit, which helps Minnesotans living with HIV to access health care through insurance, drug reimbursement, dental, nutrition and case management programs. The HIV/AIDS Unit also consults with other parts of human services and state government on HIV policy and statewide needs assessment, planning and evaluation.
Send an email to the Disability Services Division Response Center if you are unable to find information about the programs and services.
Priorities
Priorities of the Disability Services Division focus on the CHOICE domains of a meaningful life:
Community membership
Health, wellness and safety
Own place to live
Important long-term relationships
Control over supports
Employment earnings and stable income
Goals
Disability Services Division goals support the need to invest in people, invest in communities and invest in outcomes. The following are goals of the division:
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Goal 1: |
Improve service and administration to increase access, consistency, transparency and accountability. |
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Goal 2: |
Provide access to the right service at the right time. |
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Goal 3: |
Provide accountability to/and improve quality. |
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Goal 4: |
Strengthen partnerships and collaboration. |
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Goal 5: |
Foster a shared vision and a culture of innovation. |
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Goal 6: |
Make person centered assessment and decision making the foundation of the service system (self-determination). |
See how human services department will accomplish these goals through the Disability Services Division Strategies.
Quality system
From 2006 to 2007, the department's Continuing Care Administration contracted with Advanced Strategies, Inc. to develop a quality system that integrated all home and community-based service (HCBS) quality activities undertaken statewide into a single comprehensive system.
Continuing Care Administration Quality System Architecture
The CCA Quality System Architecture Value Chain is an important part of the CCA Quality System Architecture. The value chain identifies activities that take place to ensure a person entering the DHS service system receives needed services.