OVERVIEW

Benefits Planning is a critical topic for agencies and other organizations that provide vocational services to individuals with disabilities, including severe mental illness and substance use disorders.  Benefits issues impact employment decisions before, during, and after placement in jobs.  Concerns about the impact of employment upon one's benefits often influence a person's decision not to pursue employment or to minimize employment opportunities.

For more information about Benefits Planning, consult the "practices" section of our website (click here). This page will remain opened.

THIS EVENT:  FOR HOUSING STAFF

"Benefits Information for Housing Staff" provides information about basic benefits-planning issues and a framework for discussing benefits issues with individuals with disabilities, including severe mental illness, who are considering employment. Participants will learn about a variety of public benefits such as SSI, SSDI, Medicaid, and Medicare, which are impacted by earned income from a part-time or full-time job. They will also learn ways to listen to the concerns of benefits recipients and to discuss these issues in a non-judgmental, empowering manner, with the goal of helping individuals enhance their ability to make more informed choices about their benefits and employment.

Work Incentives

Participants will receive information about various work incentives, such as Impairment Related Work Expenses (IRWE) and Plans for Achieving Self-Support (PASS), which are available to individuals who receive benefits. Participants will also learn how these work incentives can be used to enhance employment opportunities. 

Learning Objectives

Participants will be able to ...

• Identify key ethical considerations and apply them to benefits discussions.
• Recognize the major myths and fears that become barriers for individuals who are interested in working.
• Recognize the basic SSI calculation, the SSDI timeline, and the impact of employment on Medicaid and Medicare benefits
• Identify and discuss specific work incentives available to individuals who receive SSI and SSDI benefits.
• Identify secondary benefits programs that may be impacted by earnings from employment.
• Apply basic SSI and SSDI work incentives to real world situations.

Ohio Specific

Please Note: This event is designed primarily for providers in Ohio. While we welcome non-Ohio providers, please note that discussions of Medicaid benefits will be specific to Ohio Medicaid. 

KEYNOTE SPEAKER

WHO SHOULD ATTEND

This event is designed primarily for housing-services staff and supervisors who work with people with disabilities, especially severe mental illness and/or substance use disorders, and who have not had exposure to or experience addressing topics related to benefits planning. Examples of people who are encouraged to attend include the following:

Service roles

• Program managers
• Team leaders
• Supervisors
• Direct-service staff

Service settings

A variety of residential and housing services:

• PSH/Permanent Supportive & Independent Housing
• Transitional Housing
• Adult Care Facilities
• Emergency Shelters
• YMCA & YWCA Housing

Professional disciplines

• Mental-health services
• Addiction services
• Social work
• Psychology
• Residential
• Housing
• Primary healthcare
• Psychiatry
• Nursing
• Occupational therapy
• Criminal justice
• Vocational rehabilitation

Service models and strategies

Individuals and service teams from organizations that are implementing evidence-based practices, best practices, emerging practices, and other service strategies for people with mental illness or co-occurring mental illness and substance use disorders. Examples include the following:

• Integrated Dual Disorder Treatment (IDDT)
• Assertive Community Treatment (ACT)
• Dual Diagnosis Capability in Addiction Treatment (DDCAT)
• Dual Diagnosis Capability in Mental Health Treatment (DDCMHT)
• Tobacco Recovery Across the Continuum (TRAC)
• Supported Employment/ Individual Placement and Support (SE/ IPS)
• Illness Management and Recovery (IMR)
• Wellness Management and Recovery (WMR)

LOCATION

Health Foundation of Greater Cincinnati

Description:

No details are available for this location

Lodging & Travel Details:

No lodging & travel details are available for this location.

Registration Policies & Instructions

Thank you for your interest in this event. Please review these instructions carefully. Each participant must register online. We do not accept registration via paper mail, fax, or email.

What We Need from You

• Create a free membership account on this website. Why? (click here)
  • Provide the required information (e.g., email address; postal address)
  • Provide your professional-license number (NOT a driver's license number, NOT a social security number)
• Register for the event and select the CEUs that you need
• Pay the registration fee
• Sign-in at the event
• Attend the entire event
• Provide any required post-event information (if applicable)

Signing in

• Sign-in at each event typically begins before the posted start time. Consult the agenda section (tab) of each event for the sign-in time.

Certificate of CEUs

• Fulfill the requirements listed above, and we will mail you a continuing-education certificate after the event.

Certificate of Attendance

• If you do not need CEUs but do need proof of attendance, select the "certificate of attendance" box in the Questions section of the online registration form.

• You must include your own unique email address (work or personal email) in your membership account to receive email confirmations and correspondences from us.
• Do not use the email of anyone else who has registered or will register for an event on our website (e.g., co-worker, supervisor).
• You may obtain your own free email account from providers like Yahoo! (click here) or Google (click here).

Walk-Ins

• Only if seating is available; no guarantees
• First-come, first-served
• Pay your registration fee at the event
• Fulfill the requirements listed in "what we need from you" section above
• If you have not created a membership account, you must do so as soon as possible after the event. We will add your registration information only after you create your account.

Payment Policies & Instructions

We look forward to receiving your registration for this event. Review the instructions below carefully.

• Please pay your registration fees in advance of your attendance at the event.
• We are unable to accept credit-card payments at this time.
• Pay by check or money order.
• We will apply your payment to the "my events” tab/section of your online membership account and send you a payment-confirmation email.
• Use your payment-confirmation email for your organizational reimbursement process.

Pay To

• Make checks payable to the following: "Case Western Reserve University."
• Please include the following in memo section: "Center for EBPs; LC: 7169."
• Send your check or money order via US Mail to our main office. See the "Contact Us” section of our website for the most current address (click here).

• Organizations that pay for multiple registrants must include on the check the first name and last name of each person for whom payment is being made.
• We will apply the payment to the "my events" section of each person’s online membership account.
• Each person at your organization must create his or her own membership account (see "Registration Policies” section).
• We do not accept registration via paper or fax, so payment is not a form of registration.

Past-Due Payments

• Individuals with past-due payments to the Center for Evidence-Based Practices (CEBP) at Case Western Reserve University (or its Coordinating Center of Excellence initiatives) will not be able to register for an event until all outstanding payments have been received.

Cancellation & Refund Policy

• No refund requests will be honored if they are postmarked after the registration deadline listed in the right column of this page.
• Refunds are subject to an administrative processing fee.
• Cancellations and requests for refunds should be submitted to the following:

crystal.smith@case.edu