List of organizations required to initiate background studies

State law directs DHS to complete background studies for more than 60 provider types, including but not limited to:

• Programs licensed by DHS
• Programs licensed by the Minnesota Department of Health
• Certain children's residential treatment services programs licensed by the Department of Corrections (DOC)
• Personal Care Provider Organizations (PCPO)
• Child foster care providers
• Counties and agencies assisting people who are seeking to adopt
• County probate courts in guardianship and conservatorship cases
• Early Intensive Developmental Behavioral Intervention (EIDBI) providers
• Statewide guardian ad litem program
• Tribal governments in foster care cases, adoption cases, and the Tribal child care center
• Unlicensed Personal Care Provider Organizations (PCPOs)
• Temporary personnel agencies and educational programs that place people in facilities that are subject to background studies
• Supplemental nursing services agencies that are registered with MDH
• County social service agencies and private child placing agencies.

More than 35,000 entities in Minnesota initiate background studies in the NETStudy 2.0 system. Many of these have unique study requirements.