• Overview
• Comparison of the SSDI and SSI Disability Programs
• Living and Working with Disabilities - Tax Benefits and Credits
• Medicaid Insurance for Workers with Disabilities (MIWD)
• MIWD Research
• Resources
• SSA 2008 Red Book
• Work Incentives Network
• SSA Work Incentives
• SSA Work Incentives Planning and Assistance (WIPA)
• Work Incentive Topic of the Month

Resources

Local Resources

• Nebraska's Office of Vocational Rehabilitation Services assists Nebraskans with disabilities to achieve and maintain employment and independence.
• The Nebraska Commission for the Blind is a resource for visually impaired Nebraskans, as well as their families, friends, and employers.
• The Nebraska Advocacy Center is an independent non-profit organization that provides legal advocacy services for people with disabilities anywhere in Nebraska.
• Centers for Independent Living (CILs) are private, non-profit corporations that provide services to maximize the independence of individuals with disabilities and the accessibility of the communities they live in.
• Easter Seals Nebraska - Easter Seals Nebraska provides exceptional services to help ensure all people with disabilities have an equal opportunity to live, learn, work and play.

National Resources

• Social Security's Redbook provides a working knowledge of the technical provisions of the SSDI and SSI programs.
• Cornell University's PASS site provides a detailed explanation of the PASS program as well as a helpful tutorial on completing the application.
• PASSplan.org offers detailed information about the PASS and shows successful examples.
• University of Missouri's Social Security Work Incentives site provides up-to-date information for individuals with disabilities who want to work.
• Employing People with Disabilities from DisabilityInfo.gov.

Employment and Psychiatric Disabilities

Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration

• The Federal agency responsible for improving the accountability, capacity, and effectiveness of mental health services across the nation.  Resources on employment available through the website (www.samhsa.gov ; 1-800-789-CMHS) include
  • Supported Employment Evidence-Based Practice KIT
  • Work as a Priority, regarding employment approaches for people who are homeless
  • Free to Choose,describing self-direction models for mental health
  • National Consensus Statement on Mental Health Recovery

Research on What Works

• Employment Intervention Demonstration Program (EIDP).  The largest completed study on employment services for people with psychiatric disabilities.  Find the research protocol, data collection instruments, lists of publications, contact information, and more:  http://www.psych.uic.edu/eidp/ .
• Cook, J.A., Blyler, C.R., Leff, H.S., McFarlane, W.R., Goldberg, R.W., Gold, P.B., Mueser, K.T., Shafer, M.S., Onken, S.J., Donegan, K., Carey, M.A., Kaufmann, C., Razzano, L.A. (2008).  The Employment Intervention Demonstration Program: Major findings and policy implications.  Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal, 31(4), 291-295.

Resources for Businesses

• An Employer’s Guide to Behavioral Health Services: A Roadmap for Evaluating, Designing, and Implementing Behavioral Health Services. The guide can be downloaded from the National Business Group on Health, http://www.businessgrouphealth.org/pdfs/fullreport_behavioralHealthservices.pdf .
• Businesses Materials for a Mental Health-Friendly Workplace: Workplaces That Thrive: A Resource for Creating Mental Health-Friendly Work Enviroments (http://www.allmentalhealth.samhsa.gov/business_resource_PDFs.html )
• Balser, Richard (2003, Aug. 1).  Business Partnerships, Employment Outcomes: The Mental Health Employer Consortium in Maine.  Diane Pub Co.  (http://www.ecampus.com/bk_detail.asp?referrer=617&ISBN=0756725860 )
• Workplace materials from SAMHSA's Resource Center to Promote Acceptance, Dignity and Social Inclusion Associated with Mental Health (ADS Center),  http://www.stopstigma.samhsa.gov/topic/employment/default.aspx

Where to Find Mental Health Partners

• The Community Support Programs Branch of the SAMHSA Center for Mental Health Services currently funds five Consumer and Consumer Supporter Technical Assistance Centers, each of which maintains extensive contacts with mental health consumer organizations across the country, http://mentalhealth.samhsa.gov/csp/consumers/tacs.asp.
• The SAMHSA Center for Mental Health Services Mental Health Services Locator can be used to find a variety of mental health-related organizations across the country, organized by State, http://mentalhealth.samhsa.gov/databases/.
  

Policy Overview

• Promoting Independence and Recovery Through Work: Employment for People with Psychiatric Disabilities, July 31, 2007.  View the archived webcast, and download the accompanying 8 page issue brief from the National Governors Association Center for Best Practices, http://www.nga.org/portal/site/nga/menuitem.9123e83a1f6786440ddcbeeb501010a0/
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Resources for Consumers

• Consumer Employment Toolkit:  http://www.psych.uic.edu/eidp/eidptoolkit.htm
• Handling your Psychiatric Disability in Work and School:  http://www.bu.edu/cpr/jobschool/

Self-determination and Recovery

• National Research and Training Center on Psychiatric Disability and Peer Support, http://www.cmhsrp.uic.edu/nrtc/default.asp
• Rehabilitation Research and Training Center for Recovery and Recovery-Oriented Psychiatric Rehabilitation for Persons with Long-Term Mental Illness, Boston University Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation, http://www.bu.edu/cpr/

Mental Health Consumer-Operated Services

• Consumer-Operated Services Program, http://www.cstprogram.org/ :  A multisite research initiative rigorously evaluating the effectiveness of consumer-operated services through random assignment to either consumer-operated services used as an adjunct to traditional mental health services, or traditional mental health services alone.