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Center for Studying Disability at Mathematica Announces October Forum Date
Focus On Ensuring Access to Benefits for Disenfranchised Populations
Media Advisory: September 28, 2010
Contact: Randall Blair, (202) 250-3552
Event: The Center for Studying Disability Policy at Mathematica Policy Research announces the eleventh forum in a lunchtime seminar series aimed at providing policymakers and others with an opportunity to hear about the latest disability policy research findings. “New Approaches to Ensuring Access for Disenfranchised Populations,” is scheduled for Thursday, October 21, 2010 from 12:00 to 1:30 p.m. at Mathematica’s office at 600 Maryland Ave., SW, Suite 550, Washington, D.C.
Speakers: Henry Ireys, senior fellow, Mathematica; Emily Sama Martin, researcher, Mathematica; and Anne Fletcher, Social Science Analyst, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Office of Policy Development and Research.
Issue: For many years, states have used innovative approaches to ensure that individuals with disabilities receive the federally funded benefits to which they are entitled. This federal assistance has become essential for states due to shrinking state budgets. In this forum, Emily Sama Martin will present findings from an evaluation of an initiative designed to improve homeless individuals' access to SSI/SSDI benefits: the SSI/SSDI Outreach, Access and Recovery (SOAR) Initiative. Henry Ireys will then discuss Mathematica's study of a SAMHSA-funded program in Oklahoma that used the SOAR model. This program was designed to ensure that eligible adults with serious mental illnesses obtain Medicaid upon release from state prisons. Finally, Anne Fletcher will discuss the implications of the findings for disability policy.
Registration and Information: To register to attend in person or via webinar, go to www.disabilitypolicyresearch.org/researchforums.asp. Lunch will be provided.
About The Center for Studying Disability Policy: The Center for Studying Disability Policy’s mission is to inform disability policy formation with rigorous, objective research and data collected from the people disability policy aims to serve. The center was formed in 2007 to coalesce and further strengthen Mathematica’s extensive disability policy research and data collection efforts, and to ensure that the results of Mathematica’s work are accessible to the disability policy community.
About Mathematica: Mathematica Policy Research, a nonpartisan research firm, provides a full range of research and data collection services, including program evaluation and policy research, survey design and data collection, research assessment and interpretation, and program performance/data management, to improve public well-being. Its clients include federal and state governments, foundations, and private-sector and international organizations. The employee-owned company, with offices in Princeton, N.J., Ann Arbor, Mich., Cambridge, Mass., Chicago, Ill., Oakland, Calif., and Washington, D.C., has conducted some of the most important studies of disability, health care, education, family support, employment, nutrition, and early childhood policies and programs.