The Commissioner of the Department of Human Services is authorized to make grants to counties, Indian tribes, children’s collaboratives or mental health providers for a wide variety of programs and services and including for the first time in 2015 the following:

training for parents, collaborative partners, and mental health providers on the impact of adverse childhood experiences and trauma and development of an interactive Web site to share information and strategies to promote resilience and prevent trauma;

Since the budget change item related to ACEs calls for the state to “develop, coordinate and maintain a Minnesota presence and participation on the ACEs Connection website,” agency officials do not anticipate creating a new website but will use ACEs Connection as the platform to share information and strategies.  Both the Children’s Mental Health Grants statute and the budget change item are attached.