The National PASS Network (NPN) is a national educational and consumer advocacy organization on Social Security and Veterans Administration disability compensation benefits. Since 1983, NPN's primary mission has been to advocate for improved public access, work to increase consumer awareness and promote informed participation in the federal Social Security disability benefit, veterans disability, aging people with disabilities long-term care support and Social Security disability work incentive programs.
For more than 28 years, the National PASS Network's national disability benefit advocacy strategy has been simple yet very effective: NPN works to build individual and organizational consumer capacity on Social Security and veterans disability benefit compensation issues; then work diligently to maintain and enhance that informed knowledge base through ongoing training update opportunities and continuous consumer-based informational materials development.
National Training Activities
Our nationally recognized, and award winning 2-day Master Advocate course works to build and maintain the expert advocacy knowledge capacity of individuals with disabilities, their advocates and rehabilitation and community service organizations, programs and agencies that serve them. In addition NPN conducts training activities on a variety of advocacy topics on accessing Social Security disability, Medicare and Medicaid benefits around the country.
NPN's disability benefit advocacy experience is extensive and broad-based. Since 1983 through various federally-funded reasearch and demonstration projects and through NPN's ongoing outreach, we have conducted over 960 training seminars/ workshops across the nation for a variety of disability service organizations, advocacy groups and federal and state agencies. Our consumer-training expertise comes from actual use and advocacy of the Social Security disability programs, not a recitation or clever rewording of the federal laws, regulations or policies relating to Social Security disability access. NPN presents information on the disability programs in unique, person-centered ways that are easy-to-understand that only someone with our 28 years of advocacy experience can. We publish a number of consumer-oriented written materials and publish an ongoing consumer blog website that help organizations and individuals with disabilities keep up with the ever-changing policy and regulation changes and implications in the federal Social Security disability benefit, Medicare and Medicaid and veterans disability compensation programs.
NPN provides specialized disability benefit consulting, case management assistance and customized on-site training and staff development assistance for public and private organizations and governmental agencies around the United States to develop and integrate proactive and ethical management strategies that maximize and leverage public resources related to the Social Security disability, SSI and the Medicare and Medicaid programs. Our workshops are about positive, what-you-can-do strategies instead of the what-you-can't-do focus that is a common way issues on access to disability benefits are approached by many uninformed organizations.
Advocacy Building Projects
Aging and Disabilty Research Project
Through our Financial Caregivers Project, NPN works and provides extensive conference planning and training for organizations on aging and disability issues. Our ahead-of-the-curve financial advocacy for aging people with disabilities and their families through its family financial services, NPN provides long-range, person-centered financial planning assistance and strategy development to families with special needs sons and daughters to preserve needed access to Social Security disability benefit and medical coverage under Medicare and Medicaid. The future planning program for families is unique because it integrates strategies for maximizing public benefits (Social Security, SSI, Medicaid/ Medicare) options for financing long-term care and private planning techniques with our Master Advocate program.
Working with NPN
To schedule a presentation, conference speech, plan a seminar or workshop, collaborate on a federal or state grant proposal or retain NPN for a consulting project, contact:
Daniel Scarborough
President
National PASS Network
PO Box 1176
Austin, Texas 78767
512.444.3603
dscarborough@passNetwork.org
NPN marketing materials are copyright, Daniel Scarborough, 2010
