The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Association (SAMHSA) SSI/SSDI Outreach, Access, and Recovery (SOAR) program increases access to Social Security disability benefits for eligible children and adults who are experiencing or at risk of homelessness and have a serious mental illness, medical impairment, and/or co-occurring substance use disorder.

It can be a challenge for individuals encountering or at chance of homelessness to pick up get to Supplemental Security Income/Social Security Incapacity Protections (SSI/SSDI) benefits. For those people who moreover have genuine mental ailment, restorative disabilities, and/or a co-occurring substance utilize clutter, the challenge can be indeed more noteworthy.

The SOAR model is intended to support children and adults in applying for Social Security inability benefits, counting those returning to their communities from correctional facilities and healing centers. Youth maturing out of the cultivate care framework may apply 180 days prior to their termination of foster care as a result of age.

According SAMHSA, since 2005, the SOAR program has assisted more than 45,137 individuals receive SSI/SSDI benefits. All 50 states and Washington D.C. participate in SOAR.

As SOAR-Trained case manager, we are able to provide comprehensive SSI/SSDI applicant assistance for eligible individuals who are experiencing or at risk of homelessness. During this process, our case managers maintain close contact with the applicant, the social security administration (SSA) field offices, and state agencies, which are usually referred to as Disability Determination Services (DDS).

This service will be available starting October 1, 2023.