Disabled Foster Youth
Can The Alliance’s Disabled Foster Youth Program Help You?
Are you a foster/former foster youth (or caring for a foster youth) with a mental or physical disability and have been denied SSI benefits?
Are you a social worker or caregiver with a disabled foster youth that is close to aging out of care and has not been screened for SSI eligibility?
Do you need information or training on how to navigate the SSI application process for a disabled foster or former foster youth?
If so, call our intake line to get started:
(213) 368-6010
The population of physically and mentally disabled youth aging out of foster care is one of the most dangerously vulnerable in our society.
The Alliance works to improve their outcomes and stabilize their lives after foster care by ensuring that eligible disabled youth are connected with SSI (Supplemental Security Income) benefits, which also provides Medi-CAL.
The Alliance provides direct advocacy to individual youth who have been denied SSI. This program also works to improve the delivery of SSI through legislative and policy reform efforts, and provides training to social workers, minor's attorneys, and judicial officers, on the SSI eligibility process and current laws related to connecting eligible foster youth to SSI before they age out of care.
SSI Materials Online | Click On The Underlined Text To Download Material
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Frequently Asked Questions about WIC 13757, which requires counties to screen all foster youth at age 16 ˝ for potential SSI eligibility.
SSI & WIC info sheet for Dependency Court Attorneys. Explains the requirements of WIC 13757 and what a Dependency Court attorney can do to ensure that clients are properly screened for SSI eligibility.
Copy of the law, WIC 13757, enacted in Jan. 2008 that requires social workers to screen for SSI eligibility for foster youth at 16 ˝ and apply for those likely to qualify.
Disability Screening Guide: A check list for CA social workers to use when a foster youth turns 16 ˝ to screen for potential SSI eligibility. If any box is checked “yes”, the worker is required to make a SSI application on behalf of the foster youth.
The Alliance is a partner in the state-wide collaboration, SSI Transitions Project. For more detailed information and materials (forms, samples, primers etc.) please visit: www.ssitransitions.org
Flyer on the SSI Trainings offered by The Alliance.
