HHS Director & Business Services
Strengthen, Support, and Service are all core words used in this description about HHS.
What is the HHS Mission Statement?
Which eligibility system is typically used for determining MA for Elderly?
What is MAXIS?
This department will soon be tasked with approving and licensing all low-dose edible hemp derived cannabis and flower/bud shops in Wright County.
What is Public Health?
This tool helps identify what a person’s needs are and determines eligibility for home and community-based services.
What is MnCHOICES?
This person coordinates the Volunteer Transportation Program in Wright County.
Who is Kris Otto?
These folksy characters adorn the office of Jamie Goodrum.
What are Gnomes?
The federal program formally known as Food Stamps now goes by SNAP. What does SNAP Stand for?
What is Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program?
This area of Public Health is responsible for promoting healthy behaviors to prevent the spread of infectious disease and uses the acronym DP&C.
What is Disease prevention and Control?
988 is the number for this national call line.
What is the National Suicide Crisis Line?
To be eligible to receive Rule 79 CMH TCM, a youth must be diagnosed with this three-word-term.
What is Severe Emotional Disturbance?
This Team handles all of the mail, bulk scans and fleet reservations.
Who is the Office Support Team?
This is the MN Health Insurance Marketplace where individuals and families can shop, compare, and choose health insurance coverage that meets their needs.
What is MNSURE (mnsure.org)?
Wright County Public Health and Buffalo Hospital have Joined together to bring this program to Wright County for breastfeeding moms.
Approximately 800 of these are completed annually in MnCHOICES.
What are initial assessments?
Mn State Statute requires CP and Ed. Neglect reports to be reported in these two ways.
What are Written and Verbally?
This is the number of team supervisors in HHS
What is 18?
At this time, this is the only FA Team that determines eligibility through the MNsure portal.
Who is the METS Team?
This Public Health Coalition's primary focus is on youth substance abuse prevention and is currently recruiting middle to high school age youth for its Youth Advisory Committee.
Who is the Mentorship, Education, And Drug Awareness (MEADA) Coalition.
Contact Lily Yang in PH for details.
To qualify for a waiver program, you must meet these two criteria.
What are:
1. MA or MA-EPD
2. Be certified disabled by SSA or State Medical Review Team (SMRT)
Effective on this date MN State Statute changed Education Neglect from a CP response to a Child Welfare Response.
What is July 1, 2025?
This team supports state systems, Genesys, Onboarding, and agency projects.
Who is The Business Products Team?
This is how and where people can find their renewal month and get information about their MN healthcare programs renewal w/o calling the county.
What is mnrenewallookup.com (renewal look up tool)?
This event, sponsored by Wright County MEADA and Sherburne County's SUP Coalition features a film screening and panel discussion at the Monticello Imagine Theater from 5pm-7pm on 11/13/2025.
What is "The Dangers of Social Media"?
Contact Lily Yang in PH for details.
This is the archaic DOS-based program that ADS staff use every day with no computer mouse.
What is MMIS?
These two things determine who receives the referral for follow up to a request for child residential treatment.
What is:
General Intake if they have a PMAP
Outreach if they have private, no, or MA insurance.