1.1 A bill for an act
1.2 relating to mental health; establishing high-fidelity wraparound grants; funding
1.3 mental health services for incarcerated youth; appropriating money; proposing
1.4 coding for new law in Minnesota Statutes, chapter 245.
1.5BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:
1.6 Section 1. [245.4908] HIGH-FIDELITY WRAPAROUND GRANTS.
1.7 Subdivision 1.Establishment.The commissioner of human services must establish a
1.8high-fidelity wraparound grant program to provide a comprehensive, holistic,
1.9child-and-family-driven response to children experiencing serious mental health or behavioral
1.10challenges. Grants must meet targeted case management services standards and support the
1.11delivery of high-fidelity wraparound services within an evidence-based model approved by
1.12the commissioner.
1.13 Subd. 2.Eligible recipients.A grantee must have a commitment to provide high-fidelity
1.14wraparound services and must be a county or a community-based service provider.
1.15 Subd. 3.Allowable uses.Grant money may be used for start-up costs, for ancillary care,
1.16and, when other payors are not available, as funding.
1.17 Subd. 4.Technical assistance to counties.(a) The commissioner must provide
1.18information to county human services directors about the grants under this section, including
1.19information on applying for an enhanced rate for children's mental health targeted case
1.20management.
1.21 (b) The commissioner must provide direction and support for interested counties to
1.22obtain the enhanced rate for children's mental health targeted case management.
1Section 1.
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SENATE
STATE OF MINNESOTA
S.F. No. 2546NINETY-FOURTH SESSION
(SENATE AUTHORS: SEEBERGER)
OFFICIAL STATUSD-PGDATE
Introduction and first reading03/13/2025
Referred to Health and Human Services 2.1 Subd. 5.Data collection and outcome measurement.(a) Grantees must provide service
2.2utilization and outcome data to the commissioner of human services at least annually but
2.3no more than twice per calendar year.
2.4 (b) Grantees must provide a report to the commissioner by December 31 of each year
2.5that describes the grantee's efforts to leverage an enhanced targeted case management rate
2.6to support base funding for high-fidelity wraparound services for clients who are eligible
2.7for medical assistance.
2.8 Sec. 2. APPROPRIATION; HIGH-FIDELITY WRAPAROUND GRANTS.
2.9 $....... in fiscal year 2026 and $....... in fiscal year 2027 are appropriated from the general
2.10fund to the commissioner of human services for the high-fidelity wraparound grants under
2.11Minnesota Statutes, section 245.4908.
2.12 Sec. 3. APPROPRIATION; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES TO INCARCERATED
2.13YOUTH.
2.14 $....... in fiscal year 2026 and $....... in fiscal year 2027 are appropriated from the general
2.15fund to the commissioner of corrections for grants to juvenile detention centers to provide
2.16mental health services for incarcerated youth. The Department of Corrections, in collaboration
2.17with the Minnesota Juvenile Detention Association, must establish a formula to disburse
2.18funding equitably statewide. Money may be used to hire mental health professionals or
2.19contract for children's mental health services to provide mental health treatment in juvenile
2.20detention centers.
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