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Child Care Assistance Program Policy Manual Issued 05/2023 care. For in-home care to be authorized, the family must request that the care be provided in the child’s home. The family’s request for in-home care must be approved by the department before the provider can be authorized to provide care in the child’s home. See Chapter 11.27 (In-Home Child Care Requests and Provider Information). If the child and the provider live in the same home, the provider does not meet legal nonlicensed criteria and cannot be paid by CCAP. See Chapter 11 (Providers) and Chapter 11.9 (Legal nonlicensed (LNL) providers). Can previously denied legal nonlicensed applicants be authorized at a later date? You may later authorize a previously denied legal nonlicensed applicant if the person: • Applies for and obtains a valid Minnesota child care license, a license issued by a tribe or another state AND • Maintains the valid child care license AND • Provides child care in the area under the jurisdiction of the licensing tribe or in the state of licensure. Do agencies need to perform a background study on legal nonlicensed providers registered by other CCAP agencies? Agencies registering a legal nonlicensed provider who is already registered with another CCAP agency must initiate a new study on the provider and their household members. NETStudy 2.0 will determine if the individuals meet transferability requirements. • If the individual meets transferability requirements (provides their Social Security number at every enhanced child care study initiation), new fingerprints are not needed and NETStudy 2.0 will connect the individual’s study results from the previous CCAP agency with the new CCAP agency. • If the individual does not meet transferability requirements, a new study is required. If the legal nonlicensed provider is not available within NETStudy 2.0 within two business days of your agency entering them in MEC2 as pending, email dhs.netstudy2@state.mn.us to request that the provider be “mapped” to your agency because they are registering with another CCAP agency. Include the acronym “ESVM” in the subject line and the following in the body: provider name, CCAP provider ID, provider date of birth, provider address and description of the issue. NETStudy 2.0 staff will complete work in NETStudy 2.0 to “map” the provider to your agency. Where can I find more general information about legal nonlicensed background study requirements? Each agency’s legal nonlicensed NETStudy 2.0 user is the agency’s first point-of-contact for background study questions related to legal nonlicensed providers. For more general information about child care provider background studies, see the department’s Minnesota child care provider background studies webpage or contact the department’s Background Studies Division at dhs.netstudy2@state.mn.us. Include the acronym “ESVM” in the subject line for questions about legal nonlicensed provider background studies. For questions about specific legal nonlicensed provider background studies, include: the provider’s name, CCAP provider ID, provider date of birth, provider address and description of the issue.