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NEUROTRAUMA
Accessing
Key Services
Adapted from the Pennsylvania
Department of Aging
How individuals with neurotrauma
disabilities, their families and caregivers go about obtaining key services
and supports is the focus of this section. Emphasis is placed on the complementary
roles of the formal system to the family and informal caregiver.
The most important resource
for the individual with a disability is the support offered by family, friends
and neighbors referred to as "natural supports". Community and institutional
long-term care services exist to supplement and strengthen, not supplant, efforts
of informal caregivers. There are many services that have been created in attempts
to meet the physical, social, and emotional needs of the individual to enable
them to remain in the community. Dealing with any bureaucratic agency can be
frustrating at times. You should keep an informal written record, a log or diary,
for recording information you will need later on. The following suggestions
we hope will help you cut through red tape and find the assistance you need.
The following part of the
site provides an overview of key local community resources and services that
are available to assist the individual with a neurotrauma disability and their
families. Click on the titles to access these links. Not all of the services
described here will be appropriate for each individual.
Neurotrauma
Office
- Information
and Referral
- Screening
& Intake to access Program
Income
and Financial Programs
- General Assistance (GA)
- Social
Security Benefits (SS)
- Aged, Blind & Disabled
Benefits (ABDB)
- Supplemental
Security Income (SSI)
- Social
Security Disability Insurance (SSDI)
- General
Assistance (GA)
- Aid to
Aged, Blind and Disabled (AABD)
- Temporary
Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) /Temporary Assistance for Needy Adults
(TANA)/First to Work Program
- Temporary Aid Of Other
Needy Families (TAONF)
- Employment Subsidy Program
(ESP)
- Low Income
Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP)
- Financial
Assistance - Smaller Programs by Island
Veteran's
Benefits
Health
Care Programs
- Medicare
- Medicaid
State Plan/Medical Assistance Program/Fee-for-Service Medicaid Program
- Medicaid
Quest Program
- Medicaid
- Long-Term Care
- Medicaid
- Pregnant Women Care
- Medicaid
- Home & Community 1915(c) Waiver Programs
- Hawaii
Covering Kids
- Other
Medical Assistance Options
- Breast
& Cervical Cancer Control Program
- Hawaii
Prescription Care Association
- Hawaii Rx Plus Program
Other
DHS Programs
- Respite
Companion Service Program
- Vocational
Rehabilitation
- Services
for the Blind
- Chore
Services
Other
DOH Programs
- Adult
Mental Health Services
- Disability
& Communication Access Board
- Developmental
Disabilities Division's Case Management & Information Services Branch
Nutrition
Programs
- Food
Stamp Program
- Alulike
Program
- Foodbanks
- Meals
on Wheels
- Miscellaneous
Smaller Programs by Island
Transportation
- Oahu
- Kauai
- Maui
- Molokai
- Lanai
- Island
of Hawaii
- Disability
Parking Permit
- National
Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA)
- A Word
to Those Driving...
Housing
Related Programs
- City & County Rental
Assistance
- Housing
and Community Development Corporation of Hawaii (HCDCH)
- Housing
and Urban Development (HUD) and People with Disabilities
- Homeownership
Assistance Program (HAP)
- Listing
of Housing Assistance, provided by DCAB
- Social
Security's Homeless Website
- Partners
in Care
- Other
Housing Assistance Sources
- Miscellaneous
Smaller Programs by Island
Some
Residential Considerations
- Residential
Care Facilities
- Residential
Care
- Medicare-Certified Home
Health Agencies
- Private Duty Home Care
Agencies
- Shared Housing
- Homeless Shelters
- In-Home
Supports
Legal
Service Decisions
- Decisional Capacity
- Guardianship
of the Person
- Guardianship
of the Property
- Small
Guardianship
- Guardianship
of the Property Procedures
- Trusts
as Guardians
- Public
Guardian
- Power
of Attorney
- Durable
Power of Attorney
- Trusts
- Representative
Payees
- Direct
Deposit & Joint Account
- Organ
Donation Agreement
Health
Care Decisions
- Advance
Directive for Health Care
- Health
Care Power of Attorney
- Surrogate
Decision-Making
Abuse,
Neglect & Exploitation
- Local
Resources and Listings
- Hotline
to Report Drug Activity
Money
Management
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