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<blockquote data-quote="klmno" data-source="post: 229675" data-attributes="member: 3699"><p>I'm in a similar situation as far as trying to get help and our locality works the way Bran & DDD explained. I have called people from each county agency, the state dept of mental health and the coordinator of the agency that handles funding for stuff like this. I got bits and pieces of information from each place, some of it conflicting. But, some of it useful. Then, I called social services <em>to get information.</em> I underlined that because I think it's important to say that to them in the first sentence if you call. And, I wouldn't recommend calling the hotline number. I called the main number and went thru the recordings until I could leave a message for a social worker to call me back to get info. </p><p></p><p>One of the most useful things I learned was to file for a waiver to get the kid on medicaid for being disabled right away. This was to get a state waiver, not SSI disability. Although, I will probably be filing for that very soon. Apparently, if the kid is on medicaid, there are all kinds of services available. If the kid is disabled (mental illness), they can get the waiver because they don't count parents' income, whereas if they are not disabled, they count the parents' income.</p><p></p><p>To find out more about your locality's process and what is and isn't available, I'd suggest starting with the website for your state's dept of mental health. Or, look at your state's website for dept of social services. It took a lot of digging and following links to find things and phone numbers of coordinators, etc. I''m still working on it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="klmno, post: 229675, member: 3699"] I'm in a similar situation as far as trying to get help and our locality works the way Bran & DDD explained. I have called people from each county agency, the state dept of mental health and the coordinator of the agency that handles funding for stuff like this. I got bits and pieces of information from each place, some of it conflicting. But, some of it useful. Then, I called social services [I]to get information.[/I] I underlined that because I think it's important to say that to them in the first sentence if you call. And, I wouldn't recommend calling the hotline number. I called the main number and went thru the recordings until I could leave a message for a social worker to call me back to get info. One of the most useful things I learned was to file for a waiver to get the kid on medicaid for being disabled right away. This was to get a state waiver, not SSI disability. Although, I will probably be filing for that very soon. Apparently, if the kid is on medicaid, there are all kinds of services available. If the kid is disabled (mental illness), they can get the waiver because they don't count parents' income, whereas if they are not disabled, they count the parents' income. To find out more about your locality's process and what is and isn't available, I'd suggest starting with the website for your state's dept of mental health. Or, look at your state's website for dept of social services. It took a lot of digging and following links to find things and phone numbers of coordinators, etc. I''m still working on it. [/QUOTE]
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