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  Topical Call Agenda: 15 July 2009
 
 

One-Hour Phone Call

Purpose: To provide a framework to directors and transition coordinators of Children and Youth with Special Health Care Needs programs, health care providers, social workers, family and youth leaders, and educators to use the Social Security Administration’s Ticket to Work program to promote employment of young people with special needs and maintain/improve their health.

Join the HRTW Team and Ticket to Work experts as we:

  1. Describe the Ticket to Work program.
  2. Identify ways the Ticket to Work Program can help young beneficiaries to work.
  3. Identify ways the Ticket to Work Program can help providers promote the 6 National Performance Measures for youth with special health care needs.

Ticket to Work Program: The Ticket to Work and Self-Sufficiency Program is an employment program for people with disabilities who are interested in going to work. The Ticket Program is part of the Ticket to Work and Work Incentives Improvement Act of 1999 – legislation designed to remove many of the barriers that previously influenced people’s decisions about going to work because of the concerns over losing health care coverage. The goal of the Ticket Program is to increase opportunities and choices for Social Security disability beneficiaries to obtain employment, vocational rehabilitation (VR), and other support services from public and private providers, employers, and other organizations.

Presenters

  • Tom Gloss - Ticket to Work Program Specialist, CESSI, Division of Axiom, McLean, VA, on contract with the Social Security Administration (SSA) is Program Manager for Recruitment and Outreach for the Ticket to Work (TTW) Program, tom.gloss@ssa.gov
  • Debbie Gilmer - Co-Director, HRTW National Resource Center and Director, Center for Self Determination, Health & Policy at the Maine Support Network which is an Employment Network, gilmer@maine.edu
  • Michael Behrman - Project SEARCH, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, an Employment Network, Michael.Behrman@cchmc.org
  • Kathy Blomquist - Title V Consultant, HRTW National Resource Center, kathyblomquist@hrtw.org

Speaker Contact Info and Bios [doc]

 

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The HRTW Center is headquartered at the Maine State Title V CSHN Program. Activities are coordinated through the Maine Support Network's Center for Self-Determination, Health and Policy. The Center is funded through a cooperative agreement (U39MC06899-01-00) from the Integrated Services Branch, Division of Services for Children with Special Health Care Needs (DSCSHN) in the Federal Maternal and Child Health Bureau (MCHB), Health Resources and Service Administration (HRSA), Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS).
Lynda Honberg, HRSA/MCHB Project Officer.