The Healthy & Ready to Work (HRTW) National Resource Center is one of six federally funded resource centers supporting the implementation of the New Freedom Initiative and the six MCHB national performance measures. We 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. www.hrtw.org

Integrated Community Systems for Children and Youth with Special Health Care Needs in Maine is designed to assure that Maine’s children and youth with special health care needs (CSHN) and their families have access to an integrated, community based system of care achieving the goals of the Maternal and Child Health Bureau’s six National Performance Measures. www.servicesforme.org Maine State CSHN website: http://www.maine.gov/dhhs/boh/cshn/

 

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 lauren@mainesupportnetwork.org. If you are sending it in the mail or faxing, please sign. Address the envelope or fax Attn: Lauren.

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, MSN 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