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A curated library of guides, tools, and templates practitioners can use to navigate disability benefits, health coverage, and income supports.
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SOAR Critical Components
Using these five SOAR Critical Components, case workers play a central role in gathering complete, targeted, and relevant information for SSA and DDS, resulting in high-quality SSI/SSDI applications.
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Article Co-Occurring Substance Use: Material to Disability?
How substance use is considered in the disability determination process has changed substantially over the years. This article dispels several widely-held myths by establishing facts about how DDS views substance use and its impact on the application process.
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- Mental Health: Serious Emotional Disturbance, Serious Mental Illness, Mental health treatment; Co-occurring Disorders; Substance Use; Benefits Access & Coordination: SSI/SSDI Applications and Appeals, SSI/SSDI Outreach, Access, and Recovery (SOAR)
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- English