Benefits Outreach: Promising Practices that Work

Everyday in communities across the country, people contact aging and disability organizations seeking help with basic needs. Benefit programs, such as the Medicare low-income subsidies, SNAP, and LIHEAP, assist millions of financially vulnerable persons with disabilities and older adults. Organizations that serve persons with disabilities and older adults play a key role in connecting individuals to benefits that can help them pay for medical care, prescription drugs, food, and heating for their homes. By providing outreach and assistance, disability and aging organizations help to raise awareness and increase enrollment into benefit programs.

The identification and sharing of promising practices can help strengthen our understanding of successful outreach strategies. Join us for this webinar to learn more from ADvancing States and NCOA’s 2019 Innovations in Benefits Outreach contest awardees. Presenters will share about their state and local outreach practices to engage, educate, and assist individuals in need of benefits assistance. The New Jersey Division of Aging Services will share about NJSave and Feeding the Gulf Coast will provide information about their senior food bag program.

For a sneak peek, watch our video interviews with the New Jersey Division of Aging Services and Feeding the Gulf Coast. Join us on November 19 to learn more!