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Employment Network (EN): Ticket to Work & Self-Sufficiency Program
Downloads: Tri-fold Brochure (pdf) | Ticket Application* (doc) (pdf)
*If you are filling out the PDF Application Form to save and email to us, please type your name in the form where it asks for your signature. Please email to gilmer@maine.edu. If you are sending it in the mail or faxing, please sign. Address the envelope or fax Attn: Debbie Gilmer.
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 due to concerns such as loss of 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.
Under the Ticket Program, the Social Security Administration provides disability beneficiaries with a Ticket that may be used to obtain jobs, and the services they need, from a new universe of organizations called Employment Networks (ENs).
As an EN, Syntiro will be responsible for the actual delivery of services, or the coordination/referral of services, to Social Security beneficiaries (SSI or SSDI recipients) interested in entering, or returning to, the workforce, and who assign their ticket to us.
Stay tuned as we prepare to serve beneficiaries interested in working with us to obtain employment! www.yourtickettowork.com
Health Care Transition Team
Resources and Opportunities for the Maternal and Child Health, Education and Workforce Development Communities
The Center’s Health Care Transition team brings extensive state and national leadership together to address your needs as you work to enhance and improve the outcomes of children and youth with special health care needs and/or disabilities. Staff and consultants from the Center for Self-Determination, Health & Policy at Syntiro each bring than 15 years of progressively responsible experience working collaboratively with, and providing leadership to, the Maternal and Child Health Bureau (MCHB) and state Title V programs on health care transition at the local, state and national levels, rendering this team the best for continuing responsive and progressive leadership.
AMCHP Fact Sheets
The Association of Maternal & Child Health Programs (AMCHP) is pleased to release three new publications designed to assist state MCH programs in understanding and implementing key Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) provisions. These resources focus on provisions related to promoting medical homes, adolescent health and children and youth with special health care needs. Each document provides an overview of key legislative provisions, opportunities and issues for state Title V MCH Programs and links to additional resources.
AMCHP's National Center for Health Reform Implementation provides state maternal and child health leaders and their partners with the information, tools and resources to optimize the opportunities presented by the ACA for improving services, systems and health outcomes for MCH populations. To provide feedback on these resources, suggest future topics or seek additional assistance, please contact Brent Ewig, AMCHP Director of Policy at (202) 266-3041.
Valuable Materials and Resources from Maine's Integrated Services Initiative 2006-2010
Visit the Inegrated Services website at: www.servicesforme.org
Integrated Community Systems for Children and Youth with Special Health Care Needs in Maine was designed to assure that Maine’s children and youth with special health care needs (CSHN) and their families had access to an integrated, community based system of care achieving the goals of the Maternal and Child Health Bureau’s six National Performance Measures.
Maine State CSHN website: http://maine.gov/dhhs/boh/cshn/index.html
Healthy & Ready to Work (HRTW) 2006-2010
The Healthy & Ready to Work (HRTW) National Resource Center was funded by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau as one of six federally funded resource centers supporting the implementation of the New Freedom Initiative and the six MCHB national performance measures. The website was designed to provide information, models, and tools to help states and medical homes incorporate transition planning into services and develop policy for children and youth in their transition to adulthood. Syntiro is continuing to make the resources available as the website is still getting significant use--we hope you continue to find it valuable. If you have questions, please contact Debbie Gilmer (gilmer@maine.edu).
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