When the Safety Net Fails People with Disabilities: How Social Workers and Other Professionals Navigate Changes to Medicaid and Medicare

 As Medicaid and Medicare policies shift at the federal and state levels, individuals with disabilities may face increasing barriers to accessing essential healthcare and support services. This session explores how the evolving landscape of public benefits impacts people with disabilities—and what happens when the safety net intended to protect them begins to unravel. Advocacy opportunities and resources for social workers and other professionals and people with disabilities will be highlighted.

CEU Credits will be offered.

Panelists include:

• Dean Leibowitz (Moderator)
• Steve Crystal, Rutgers University School of Social Work
• Ayse Akincigil, Rutgers University School of Social Work
• Mary Beth Ali, Rutgers University School of Social Work
• Elizabeth Stone, Rutgers University Department of Psychiatry & Center for Health Services Research
• Gwen Orlowski, Disability Rights New Jersey
• Colleen Roche, Statewide Independent Living Council