Disability Benefits Advocacy Fundamentals: Building Essential Skills & Knowledge

The Disability Benefits Advocacy Cohort training has now moved to Change Well Project’s Digital Learning Platform. We have preserved all the critical content & learning and moved it into self-paced modules learners can access on-demand via the Digital Learning Platform. This self-paced learning will be enhanced by live sessions with program instructors where we will dig more into applying skills and knowledge together.

A new cohort for this training will begin in late August 2023.

This intensive, participatory training will teach HDAP Benefits Advocates the skills and knowledge needed to complete SSDI, SSI, and CAPI applications for HDAP participants. You will learn best practices for working with clients on disability and age-based applications. The training will be led by attorneys from Change Well Project who are specialists in Social Security and CAPI. Whether you are brand new to benefits advocacy or already have experience, you will gain knowledge and skills to make you more effective in your work. For SOAR-certified Benefits Advocates, this training will build on and complement SOAR training.

Registration is free and available to all HDAP Benefits Advocates working with a county HDAP program or with a community-based organization that is an HDAP grantee.

Eligible Participants

• May be county HDAP staff or staff at HDAP-contracted community-based organizations who work on disability benefits applications.
• May be new to the Benefits Advocate role or an experienced Benefits Advocate seeking to add skills and knowledge to your Benefits Advocate toolbox.
• May be SOAR certified, but this is not a prerequisite.
• Must commit to completing the self-paced learning instruction on the digital learning platform (on your own schedule) as well as attending all six scheduled Putting Knowledge into Practice live trainings as they are designed to build on each other in a series.
• Participants who complete the entire training course will receive a certificate of completion.
• Registration is limited to 75 participants.

Visit https://www.changewellproject.com/disabilityadvocacycohort for more information and to REGISTER!