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1. Special Session at the 7th NYAPRS Executive Seminar: Making the Ticket Work for Your Program
2. Our Program for This Evening Brief Ticket-to-Work overview: Joel Middleton, Ticket-to-Work Developing a business model and making good business decisions - Oscar Jimenez, MPH, NYAPRS Implementation experiences: Federations of Organizations – Tracy Falkner, LMSW, CPRP Clubhouse of Suffolk – Josh Carpenter, M.Ed., CRC Implementation TA Opportunities: Ticket-to-Work Technical Assistance Support Center (TASC) – Michael Yozzi, Sr. Account Manager & Joel Middleton, Account Manager Columbia Univ. Center for Practice Innovations (CPI) – Raymond Gregory, IPS Trainer NYAPRS – Oscar Jimenez, MPH Q&A– All panelists
3. 2010 Payments At A Glance Phase 1 Phase 2
4. Milestone-Outcome Payment System: Phase 1 Milestones 2010 Rates
5. Milestone-Outcome Payment System: Phase 2 Payments 2010 Rates
6. Milestone-Outcome Payment System: Outcome Payments 2010 Rates
7. START HERE Decision Tree for Assigning Tickets
8. Case example # 1: Michael Michael is a 30-year old male that started receiving services at Inspirations in 2008. Michael has little work experience and has been unemployed for the last 6 years. Michael currently receives SSI benefits along with Medicaid insurance. Michael has been receiving Community Rehabilitation and Support (CRS) services from Inspirations’ PROS program for the past two years. Until recently he had not considered work because he thought he would lose all his benefits, but a month ago he heard that this is not true. So now he is very motivated to become employed again. One of Michael’s goals is to live independently and he would like to find a job to help him accomplish this goal. As Michael does not have much work experience, his current goal is to work part-time in a job where he can make between $800-$900/month. He has never received ACESS-VR services and is not interested in applying for ACESS-VR right now. He has begun submitting applications at local retail stores and has an interview for a job at a grocery store next week.
9. Case Example # 2: Mollie Mollie is a 45-year old female that came to Inspirations to see if she can receive help returning to work. Mollie currently receives $950/month in SSDI benefits along with Medicare insurance. She has never received services from ACESS-VR. Mollie has an associate’s degree in paralegal studies and worked for several years in a variety of legal service jobs. She was approved for SSDI benefits in 2005 due to her mental health disability and had been out of work for the last six years until recently. Mollie found a job working for a local law office. She was employed from June through August in 2010, but lost the job due to conflicts with her supervisor. This was her first job since going onto SSDI benefits. Mollie believes, along with her therapist, that working can help her in her process of recovery and that she can be a successful paralegal again. Mollie is very interested in searching for a part-time job (10-15 hrs/wk) in local law office (at $20/hour).
10. When an individual has an ACESS-VR case OPEN, the Ticket is considered “in use” and it cannot be assigned to an EN After VR case is formally closed, then the beneficiary can assign Ticket to an EN If the VR case is closed successfully, then Phase One payments are NOT available If the VR case is NOT closed successfully, then ALL Ticket payments may still be available Partnership Plus at a Glance
11. Case example # 3: Cody Cody is a 40-year old that was referred to Inspirations for continuing employment support. Cody currently receives SSI benefits and Medicaid insurance. Cody has worked with ACESS-VR over the last three years and received vocational training to become an auto mechanic. Four months ago Cody got a job working at a body shop part-time where he earns $800 per/month and his case was successfully closed with ACESS-VR. Cody, however, would still like additional support because he has trouble getting along with his coworkers and sometimes feels overwhelmed with his job responsibilities. Additionally, Cody would like to work full-time in the future so that he can save to buy a car.
12. Ticket-to-Work Decision-Tree for NEW PROS participants
13. Ticket to Work Decision-Tree for CURRENT PROS participants
14. Challenge Ticket Tracker
15. What it Does Organizes all Ticket Holder Demographics at a glance Provides key contact information for Maximus Manually allows tracking of all payments, including Phase 1, 2 & Outcomes Provides automatic tracking of total revenue Includes charts which show total revenue, and break-down of Phase 1, 2 & Outcome payment totals
16. How it Works The Ticket Tracker tool is an excel based database that links data and adds inputs to provide an ongoing picture of revenue your EN has earned Information entered in the Demographics Worksheet will populate key data to all other payment tracking Worksheets Notes through out the Worksheets help to guide your decisions about payment requests
17. Enter EN & Key Maximus contact information here Check boxes for benefits type Enter Ticket Holder information here 17
18. Job Placement information Industry/Sector Drop-down menu: Matches Annual Periodic Outcome Report (APOR)
19. Phase 1 Milestones Worksheet: Payment Code indicates billing request type submitted, Wages for period is for tracking total wage data for request period you have collected from Ticket Holder Data in these fields populates from Demographics Worksheet 19
20. Phase 2 Payments Worksheet: Note the red tabs in upper corners for comments that will assist you in making billing decisions Populated Data in these cells 20
21. Populated data in these cells Outcome Payments are tracked in multiple Worksheets, 10/Worksheet. Note the comments again for assistance in billing. 21
22. Management Reports help you to see progress as an EN, and identify revenue trends that can guide your EN service delivery methods. Scrolling down on this page will reveal Phase 2 and Outcome Payment Charts. 22
23. Coming Soon… Maximus is currently working on an EN portal management tool that will assist you in your efforts which should be released early in 2011. SSA is also working with a contractor on another Case Management tool that will be even more sophisticated, release date unkown.
24. Questions about future trainings and technical assistance?
25. New York Makes Work Pay Partnering Organizations New York Makes Work Pay is a Comprehensive Employment System Medicaid Infrastructure Grant (Contract No. #1QACMS030318) from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services to the Office of Mental Health on behalf of New York State.  It is a joint effort of the Burton Blatt Institute at Syracuse University and the Employment and Disability Institute at Cornell University with the collaborative support of the Employment Committee of the New York State Most Integrated Setting Coordinating Council to develop pathways and remove obstacles to employment for New Yorkers with disabilities.