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Comprehensive Benefits Management



Three days of intensive training for direct service staff whose positions require expertise in Social Security benefits counseling, such as those providing case management, vocational services, benefits assistance, or professionals working in recovery oriented programs like PROS, ACT or Clubhouses.

The agency staff who will be attending this training all work with individuals with disabilities; many of whom receive Title II or SSI benefits from SSA. When an individual recipient decides to attempt to reenter the work force, several beneficial work incentives can be used to ease that transition to a speed comfortable for the recipient.

Proper planning and thorough knowledge of these work incentives, along with coaching by a trained individual, will significantly boost the chances of the recipient making a successful transition. Participants will learn how to utilize the Social Security Administration's work incentive provisions to help consumers achieve their employment goals. Participants will have an opportunity to apply newly acquired systems knowledge through in-depth case studies.

At the conclusion of the training, participants will be able to:

  • Describe how the Social Security Administration works
  • Describe what the SSI program is
  • Identify how SSI differs from Title ll
  • Understand the impact of earnings on Title ll and SSI
  • Define how someone is determined disabled by the Social Security Agency
  • Identify how work and disability are compatible concepts
  • Calculate a monthly SSI payment
  • Describe how work and earnings impact Title ll
  • Define the Trial Work Period and how it works
  • Describe how Medicare is impacted by earned income
  • Identify how to use work incentives in the SSI program
  • Describe Expedited Reinstatement and how and when it can be accessed

    • Prerequisite:
    Participants should have attended an Introduction to Benefits training offered by the Center, no exceptions please, prior registration will be verified. If you have questions about prerequisites, contact [email protected] or [email protected]

    Name and qualifications of facilitator:
    Raymond Adam Cebula III, is a member of the Extension Faculty of Cornell University's Yang-Tan Institute on Employment and Disability. As a faculty member, he provides technical assistance and training to Protection and Advocacy program attorneys and paralegals in 16 states and territories covered by Cornell's Work Incentive Support Center.

    As an experienced social security disability attorney Mr. Cebula practiced with the Disability Benefits Project as a Senior Staff Attorney with the Disability Law Center in Boston, Massachusetts. He has also served as a Managing Attorney of the Disability and Medicare projects at Southeastern Massachusetts Legal Assistance Corporation. He is a graduate of Franklin Pierce Law Center in Concord, NH and received a Reginald Heber Smith Community Lawyer Fellowship upon graduation. He is also a graduate of Merrimack College and holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in history. His practice has concentrated in the area of social security practice and has brought several pieces of significant litigation on behalf of low income, disabled social security beneficiaries. While working with the Disability Law Center, Mr. Cebula taught at Harvard Law School’s Legal Aid Bureau for a period of three academic years.

    He is the co-author of the MCLE publication An Advocate’s Guide to Surviving the SSI System, as well as several SSI practice manuals published by Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education, and is a regular presenter of social security related programs at local and national conferences of social security practitioners.

    Information for Social Work Continuing Education:
    This course has been approved for 18 Licensed Social Work (LMSW or LCSW) CE hours.
    This course has been approved for 18 Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) CE hours.
    This course is pending approval for 18 (CASAC/CPP/CPS) CE hours.

    Participants must arrive on time and stay for each full session in order to receive credit. All participants must submit a post-test and document their attendance via the Social Work CE sign-in and sign-out sheet at each session in order to receive credit. No credit will be provided for partial attendance.

    For questions about CE credits please contact: Amanda Saake, Director of The Center for Rehabilitation & Recovery at [email protected]

    Fee:
    While this workshop is free of charge, there is a $50 cancellation fee if registrants do not cancel more than 24 hours in advance. To cancel, please email Deborah Short at: [email protected].

    Important Notice:
    The Coalition for Behavioral Health, Inc. is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW-0098 and is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed mental health counselors #MHC-0121.


    * *This is a three-day training; participants must commit to attending all sessions.
    Dates:Tuesday - Thursday, May 15 – 17, 2018
    Time: 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
    Location: Coalition of Behavioral Health Agencies | 123 William Street | 19th Floor, Suite 1901

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    **We reserve the right to limit the number of attendees per organization based on the
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