The Aging & Adult Services Agency at the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services wants to learn how older Michiganders and Michiganders with disabilities have been impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. If you are age 60 or over and/or have a disability and reside in Michigan, please complete our survey. Your responses will help determine how we can best support older adults and persons with disabilities in the upcoming months. The survey closes July 10. 

AASA is requesting a waiver from the ACL under the requirements from Section 316 for our regular OAA and/or CARES Act Title III-B minimum proportion requirements and the Title III-E Kinship minimum proportion requirement. AASA is requesting a waiver of the requirements for both funding sources to allow for maximum flexibility to the SUA and the area agencies on aging.

The minimum proportion requirements contain within Title III-B 10% Access, 10% In-Home, 6.5% Legal, and within Title III-E 5% Kinship.

View the letter to ACL. 

Public comment is open from June 23 to July 23. Please submit comments via email to Amy Colletti. 

The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS), Aging and Adult Services Agency (AASA) is required by the Michigan Commission on Services to the Aging (CSA) to provide an opportunity for public review and comment for any proposed changes to AASA's Operating Standards for Service Programs.

The draft standards will be available for public review and comment for a 30-day period beginning June 19, 2020 and ending on July 19, 2020. Comments may be provided to the attention of Dr. Alexis Travis via email (preferred due to COVID-19) at AASAInfo@michigan.gov or in written form to:

MDHHS/Aging and Adult Service Agency
Attention: Dr. Alexis Travis, Senior Deputy Director
333 S. Grand Ave., 4th Floor
Lansing, MI 48909

The documents linked on this page describe proposed changes to operating standards related to criminal background check requirements for are agencies on aging and AASA-funded service programs.  Please review memorandum for full details.

Memorandum (PDF)
Draft AASA Operating Standards for AAAs (PDF)
Draft AASA Operating Standards for Service Programs – CBC General Requirements (PDF)
Draft AASA Operating Standards for Service Programs – CBC CM Performance Criteria (PDF)