List of organizations required to initiate background studies
State law directs DHS to complete background studies for more than 60 provider types, including but not limited to:
- Programs licensed by DHS
- Programs licensed by the Minnesota Department of Health
- Certain children's residential treatment services programs licensed by the Department of Corrections (DOC)
- Personal Care Provider Organizations (PCPO)
- Child foster care providers
- Counties and agencies assisting people who are seeking to adopt
- County probate courts in guardianship and conservatorship cases
- Early Intensive Developmental Behavioral Intervention (EIDBI) providers
- Statewide guardian ad litem program
- Tribal governments in foster care cases, adoption cases, and the Tribal child care center
- Unlicensed Personal Care Provider Organizations (PCPOs)
- Temporary personnel agencies and educational programs that place people in facilities that are subject to background studies
- Supplemental nursing services agencies that are registered with MDH
- County social service agencies and private child placing agencies.
More than 35,000 entities in Minnesota initiate background studies in the NETStudy 2.0 system. Many of these have unique study requirements.
