Note: DHS updated this eList announcement:
AASD and DSD eList announcement
Date: April 11, 2022 (revised May 18, 2022, July 20, 2022, Dec. 15, 2022 and Feb. 15, 2023)
To: Lead agencies, home and community based services (HCBS) residential providers and other interested parties
From: DHS Aging and Adult Services and Disability Services divisions
Purpose: To announce the end to temporary staffing for residential service providers to cope with current staffing shortages due to COVID-19
Contact: DSD Contact Form
End to COVID-19 emergency staffing program
DHS has stopped accepting applications for the short-term emergency staffing program. Funding for the program will end Feb. 15, 2023. The program allowed residential service providers with an active COVID-19 outbreak to request short-term emergency staffing during a critical shortage.
Previous eList announcements
AASD LEAD AGENCY ARCHIVE | DSD LEAD AGENCY ARCHIVE | DSD STAKEHOLDER ARCHIVE