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Tania Hanford MS LPC PROMISE Counselor Fox Valley Area

Tania Hanford MS LPC PROMISE Counselor Fox Valley Area. What Is PROMISE?. Wisconsin PROMISE is part of a new federal grant with a goal to learn how to best help youth with disabilities meet school, work, and independence goals.

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Tania Hanford MS LPC PROMISE Counselor Fox Valley Area

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  1. Tania Hanford MS LPCPROMISE CounselorFox Valley Area

  2. What Is PROMISE? • Wisconsin PROMISE is part of a new federal grant with a goal to learn how to best help youth with disabilities meet school, work, and independence goals. • Who is eligible? 14 to 16 Years Olds Receiving SSI and their families

  3. Eligibility • What if I know youth 14-16 years old who are on SSI? • Send them to our website: www.promisewi.com • Call our intake attendant: 855-480-5618 • Email our intake attendant: promise-grant@cesa12.org

  4. Recruitment SSI Youth and Family 1-855-480-5618

  5. Wisconsin PROMISE Outreach Letter • Introduces Wisconsin PROMISE as part of a federal program to learn how to help youth with disabilities meet their school and work goals • Explains how to be included in the study • Includes contact information for the intake attendent. • Provides contact information for the project’s investigator 5

  6. Enrollment Periodic Survey Benchmark Family and Youth Enrolled in DVR • Recruitment Letter • Parental Consent • Baseline Intake • SSA Verification • Random Selection Program Services

  7. What Families can Expect fromWisconsin PROMISE Program Services

  8. Working with PROMISE Counselor • Work one-on-one with partipants and their families to develop long term goals. • Explore options that help both youth and families reach these goals • Develop plan to provide services to reach these goals • Collaborate with other agencies and resources to reach families goals.

  9. Individual and Family Reality Dream Pathway

  10. Division of Vocational Rehab (DVR) • DVR mission is to help individuals with disability obtain, maintain, and improve completive and integrated employment. • If a youth is in the PROMISE participant group, they will automatically be enrolled in DVR as well. • PROMISE trumps DVR eligibility and order of selection (wait list)

  11. DVR vs PROMISE DVR: PROMISE: Works with youth 14-16. Works with the consumer, family, and partner agencies working with consumer. Rapid engagement, no wait list, and lead by families needs Specific training modules and other incentives for participating. • Usually works with individuals 16 and older • Works exclusively with the consumer not their family. • Process of eligibility, waitlist, and plan development • Doesn‘t have specific training modules

  12. Service Menu

  13. Wisconsin PROMISE Service Outcomes • Lifelong wage earners • Less reliance on public benefits • Increased household income, including family members • Higher educational attainment for youth and family If 100 Wisconsin youth no longer use SSI cash benefits, those public savings will have funded the entire 5-year Wisconsin PROMISE grant. For More Information: Ellie Hartman, PhD, Project Manager Ellie2.Hartman@dwd.wisconsin.gov promisewi.com

  14. Key Elements • Work Experience • Incentives Benefits Counseling • Asset Management • Community Resources • Labor Market/Business Connections • Education and Training • Coordination of services--alignment

  15. Outcomes • Increase Educational attainment and credentials • Increase Employment • Increase household income including family members older than 15 • Decrease reliance on SSA payments • Decrease public benefits

  16. Guardianship/Foster Parents • PROMISE will work with foster parents or whomever is court assigned as guardian to help provide services. • PROMISE goals are for family independence, if youth is only temporarily displaced, we will work with the family members the youth with be placed with long term. • If youth is permanently placed in a foster home, we will work with the family members of the youths permanent home.

  17. Who is ‘the family’ for PROMISE • Whomever is living in the house at time of enrollment in PROMISE, is 15 yrs of age or older, and has signed consent form can receive PROMISE services • If youth is not living in their permanent placement, then the family in the individuals permanent home may receive services. • There are exceptions to this that will be negotiate on a case by case bases. • PROMISE works with a team approach. When foster, displaced, or homeless youth are in the program, we attempt to partner with all the agencies working with the youth to explore where PROMISE services will be most utilized and helpful for the youth.

  18. Contact: Tania Hanford, M.S. LPC Voc Rehab Counselor - Promise GrantDWD- DVR219 Washington Avenue, Suite 105 Oshkosh, WI 54901 920-479-0433 cell920-424-7901 office920-424-2073 faxtania.hanford@dwd.wisconsin.gov

  19. Question or feedback as to how PROMISE could work well with the Public Welfare System?

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