DDES INFO MEMO 2004-08
December 23, 2004
STATE OF WISCONSIN
Department of Health and Family Services
Division of Disability and Elder Services
To:
Area Administrators/ Human Services Area Coordinators
Bureau Directors
County Departments of Community Programs Directors
County Departments of Developmental Disabilities Services Directors
County Departments of Human Services Directors
County Departments of Social Services Directors
Section Chiefs/Licensing Chiefs
Tribal Chairpersons/Human Services Facilitators
From:
Sinikka Santala
Administrator
Re:
Mental Health Block Grant (MHBG)
In July 2004, DDES Memo 2004-10 was sent to all counties from the
Division of Disability and Elder Services regarding counties’ use of
Mental Health Block Grant (MHBG) funds in Calendar Year 2005. It may
have appeared from that memo that Supported Housing was the only Mental
Health Block Grant-funded service for which the homeless mentally ill
should receive priority. Counties are being asked to prioritize their
efforts to serve seriously mentally ill individuals who are homeless for
all MHBG-funded services.
Counties are required to make the reporting of data for
individuals who are homeless in accordance with the specifications for
the HSRS Mental Health Module a priority. Data describing individuals
who are homeless may be recorded in two fields in HSRS:
- Use Code 80 to indicate an individual is homeless as a Client
Characteristic (Field 7), and/or
- Use Code 1 to indicate an individual lives on the street or in
a shelter to describe the Residential Arrangement (Field
37) for individuals who meet the criteria for inclusion in the
Consumer Status Data Set.
Mental Health Block Grant funds may be used in ANY of the
priority program areas to provide mainstream mental health services to
persons who have a serious mental illness and are homeless. All of the
priority program areas mentioned in the memo and the associated Human
Services Reporting System (HSRS) Standard Program Category (SPC) codes
are listed below. Counties should continue to use these eight priority
program areas to complete the annual County Reporting Form for MHBG
expenditures.
1. Community Support Programs (SPC 509)
2. Supported Housing (SPC 106)
3. Jail Diversion (SPC 507, 509)
4. Crisis Intervention (SPC 501)
5. Family and Consumer Peer Support and Self-Help (SPC 408)
6. Services for Children and Adolescents with SED (SPC 103, 604,
501,507, 704)
- Programs for Persons with Mental Illness and Substance Abuse
Problems (SPC 507, 508)
- Community Mental Health Data Set Development (no HSRS SPC data
needed)
Counties use the SPC codes above to record delivered services in HSRS
when MHBG funds are used. However, counties should record all
services delivered to all consumers with a serious mental illness who
are homeless in HSRS regardless of whether the MHBG is used to fund
these services.
If you or your staff have any questions about how to report HSRS data
for persons who have a serious mental illness and are homeless, please
contact Tim Connor at the BMHSAS, 608-261-6744.
REGIONAL OFFICE CONTACT:
Area Administrator
CENTRAL OFFICE CONTACT:
Tim Connor
Supervisor
BMHSAS
(608)261-6744
connotg@wisconsin.gov
MEMO WEB SITE:
http://www.dhs.wisconsin.gov/partners/local.htm
___________________________________________________________
Attachment:
BRIEF BUDGET REQUEST AND SIGNATURE OF AGREEMENT
TO USE THE MENTAL HEALTH/AODA FUNCTIONAL SCREEN
BY JUNE 30, 2005.
Agency Name:
___________________________________________
Agency Address:
____________________________________________
Telephone # of Contact Person:
___________________________________________
This agency agrees to use the funding available by June 30, 2005
This agency agrees to start using the screen for new CSP admissions
in 2005
This agency agrees to screen on-going CSP participants on an annual
basis, starting in 2005.
Signature:
Agency Director_______________________________Date:_________
CSP Coordinator______________________________Date:__________
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