As we work to maintain the health and safety of people with disabilities - as well as their families and support professionals - throughout the COVID-19/coronavirus pandemic, it is imperative that we uphold individuals’ rights, as well as the core principles of equity, self-determination, and true belonging in community.
Many hospitals currently restrict in-person visitation as an important and necessary COVID-19 mitigation strategy. However, families and advocates have contacted the Minnesota Department of Health to express concern about the ability of patients with disabilities and pediatric patients to access support people, parents, or legal guardians while hospitalized.
Minnesota System of Care is a new way of helping children and youth with complex mental health needs and their families by connecting and coordinating the work of various systems and partners
This website called, Person-Centered and Family-Centered Approaches in Mental Health and Co-Occurring Conditions, is a communication portal between stakeholders and product developers related to person-centered and family-centered resource development in mental health and substance misuse.
This shorter Organization-Wide Training was initially designed for Small Provider Agencies using a webinar zoom-based format. The recording and presentation slides were organized for 3, three-hour trainings. You can use all or parts of this training to share information with your team. You can use these resources along with the HCBS modules included on the the […]
Objective: Team design is meticulously specified for assertive community treatment (ACT) teams, yet performance can vary across ACT teams, even those with high fidelity. By developing and validating the Teamwork in Assertive Community Treatment (TACT) scale, investigators examined the role of team processes in ACT performance.
