1 / 9

Energy Assistance Program

Energy Assistance Program. FFY20 Annual Training. Safe at Home. Safe at Home. Sandra Seemann Minnesota Energy Assistance Program. Safe at Home. Topics SAH overview eHEAT changes for SAH households SP EAP staff must view SAH training video SAH resources for SP staff & SAH HHs.

werner
Download Presentation

Energy Assistance Program

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Energy Assistance Program FFY20 Annual Training Safe at Home

  2. Safe at Home Sandra Seemann Minnesota Energy Assistance Program

  3. Safe at Home Topics • SAH overview • eHEAT changes for SAH households • SP EAP staff must view SAH training video • SAH resources for SP staff & SAH HHs

  4. Safe at Home SAH overview • What is SAH? • Program allows those with extreme safety concerns to keep their address secret so persons they’re afraid of can’t find them • Serves 3,000 people in 1,100 HHs throughout MN • Survivors of domestic violence, stalking, or sexual assault • SAH HH is assigned an ‘alternative address’ that all private & public entities must accept as their true address: • LOT ####, PO BOX 17370, SAINT PAUL MN 55117 • SAH PO Box is the same for every participant • The lot # is different for each HH and/or adult

  5. Safe at Home eHEAT changes for SAH applications • Last year EAP added a ‘Safe at Home’ checkbox in eHEAT • Change in the Safe at Home (SAH) Participant SSNsection (of Ch. 13, pg. 3) • When SP checks the SAH checkbox on the ‘Primary Applicant’ screen, eHEAT automatically assigns the HH a bogus SSN of SAH-XX-XXXX

  6. Safe at Home and EAP Reminder • ‘Safe at Home’ checkbox added to Personal Info screen • SSN field auto-fills with SAH-XX-XXXX • Mailing Address fields auto-fill with SAH address: “PO Box 17370, Saint Paul, MN 55117-0370” • The House Number field auto-fills with the words “LOT #” • SP must add the SAH HH’s unique LOT #, e.g. LOT #1234 1234

  7. Safe at Home SAH training video • All SP EAP staff must watch SAH training video • At start-up training and as part of new staff on-boarding • Found on the EAP training video webpage: https://sites.google.com/site/minnesotaeaptraining/home/ffy19-state-training-videos • It’s the 10th video, titled “Safe At Home / SAH and EAP”

  8. Safe at Home SAH resources SAH Fact Sheet • On EAP Toolkit http://mn.gov/commerce-stat/pdfs/sah-fact-sheet.pdf • How staff safely interact with SAH HHs and process their app • Can post Fact Sheet at staff workstation

  9. Safe at Home SAH resources Safe at Home Participant Instruction (Appendix 4A) • On EAP Toolkit: http://mn.gov/commerce-stat/pdfs/instruct-sah-completing-eap-app.pdf

More Related