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The Minnesota Department of Human Services (DHS) helps provide essential services to Minnesota's most vulnerable residents. Working with many others, including counties, tribes and nonprofits.
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The Minnesota Department of Human Services (DHS) helps provide essential services to Minnesota's most vulnerable residents. Working with many others, including counties, tribes and nonprofits.
Assistant to the Commissioner, Angie Goserud 651-431-2924
Areas included in this part of the organization:
Children and Family Services helps keep children safe and provides families with supports to care for their children. It also helps families and individuals transition to work and economic stability.
Direct Care and Treatment is a highly specialized health care system that provides residential and treatment programs for people with mental illness, developmental disabilities, substance use disorders and traumatic brain injuries. Most patients and clients have been civilly committed by the court. DCT also provides secure treatment for civilly committed sex offenders.
Areas included in this part of the organization:
Ambulatory Care Services
Community Based Services
Community-Based Services include group homes, vocational services and other community support services for people with disabilities.
Compliance
Health Equity
Forensic Services
Forensic Services includes the Forensic Mental Health Program (formerly called the Minnesota Security Hospital) and the Forensic Nursing Home. These secure facilities are located on a single campus located in St. Peter. The programs serve people who have been committed by the court as mentally ill and dangerous.
Medical Services
Mental Health and Substance Abuse Treatment Services
Minnesota Sex Offender Program
The Minnesota Sex Offender Program in Moose Lake and St. Peter provides inpatient services and treatment to people who are committed by the court as a sexual psychopathic personality or sexually dangerous person.
Operation Support Services
Pharmacy Services
Quality Management
This division is responsible for data analysis, research and performance measures to evaluate health care programs, and oversees managed care quality assurance and improvement.
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The Communications Office leads department communications efforts. Communications responds to inquiries from the news media and prepare information that helps the general public understand department services and human services policies. All news releases and fact sheets can be found on the department website.
The community relations director supports, develops and facilitates relationships between DHS and the community and county, community and legislative relations.
The county relations director takes a lead role in the department's relationships with Minnesota's 87 counties, which provide most of the services the department administers.
The director of federal relations serves as a key link to the federal government and Minnesota’s Congressional delegation on emerging issues, legislation and executive branch actions.
The director of Indian policy is responsible for providing coordination of ongoing consultation with tribal governments and, where appropriate, state and federal agencies, relating to the implementation of DHS services on American Indian reservations and urban Indian communities.
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MNIT Services @ DHS manages the technology to provide the department's information infrastructure and core information tools. IT supports the agency's mission by providing a workplace information environment that is secure, stable, powerful and technologically sound, by ensuring that new systems are coordinated across the department and with other agencies and by providing a high level of customer support.
Forensic Services
Anoka-Metro Regional Treatment Center
3301 Seventh Ave. N.
Anoka, MN 55303-4516
763-712-4000 763-712-4013, fax
Anoka-Metro Regional Treatment Center serves people who are mentally ill or chemically dependent.
CBHH provide short-term, acute inpatient psychiatric services at six 16-bed community-based sites located throughout Minnesota.
The Community Addiction Recovery Enterprise provides dual diagnosis (both chemical dependency and mental illness) treatment and treatment for gambling addiction. It provides both inpatient and outpatient treatment, is licensed by the Minnesota Department of Human Services and the Minnesota Department of Health and is accredited by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations.
The Child and Adolescent Behavioral Health Hospital serves children and adolescents ages 4 to 18 who have a serious mental illness, emotional and behavioral disorders. Admission is by referral only to children and teens who meet the medical criteria for hospitalization.
Community Support Services provides crisis homes, technical assistance and consultation services to people with disabilities throughout Minnesota. 1
Community Based Services provides residential and vocational support services for people with developmental and other disabilities throughout Minnesota.