This database is of resources most commonly referred to when someone calls the LINK department. Search resources using the search box, or target resources by categories and tags listed to the right. YAI does not intimately know all the programs on this list. Availability and service changes are beyond our control. If you are trying to understand what an acronym might mean, check out our Acronym Guide. If you are unable to find what you are looking for, please feel free to call us at 212.273.6182.
CLOSENY State of Health: The Official Health Plan Marketplace, is your place to shop, compare, and enroll in a low-cost quality plan that’s right for you. And it’s the only place you can receive financial assistance based on your income, to lower your costs even more.
The Family Center offers a unique program of social and legal services, including health care, lifetime planning, and wellness programs, to New Yorkers struggling with a family crisis or loss. The team combines a keen business sense with a personalized approach, partnering with families to plan their next steps and long-term solutions with services.
Advance Healthcare Alliance is operating an Urgent Care Program in order to provide accessible, after-hours urgent care to people with intellectual and/or developmental disabilities (I/DD). When an urgent health care situation comes up, people with I/DD living in Brooklyn or Suffolk County who enroll in the program will be able to call a number at any time, 24/7, and get assistance from a trained nurse who specializes in treating patients with I/DD.
NYLAG’s Disability Advocacy Project (DAP) works to ensure that eligible people with disabilities receive benefits under the Social Security Disability Program (SSD) and the Supplemental Security Income Program (SSI). DAP provides free legal advice and representation when SSDI or SSI disability benefits are wrongfully denied or terminated.
Home care complaint tracking hotline administered by the Human Resources Administration
Managed Care Medicaid Information
HEAP offers summer air conditioners and cooling centers (May through June). Assistance with heating bills in the winter is also available.
CASA offers home care services for children and adults receiving services from OPWDD. Fax or mail their M11Qs directly to the correct CASA borough office (See handout). M11Q must have “OPWDD” written on header to be exempt from managed home care services. M11Qs are available at https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/hra/downloads/pdf/services/micsa/m_11q.pdf
The Medicaid Buy-In program offers Medicaid coverage to people with disabilities who are working and earning more than the allowable limits for regular Medicaid, the opportunity to retain their health care coverage through Medicaid. This program allows working people with disabilities to earn more income without the risk of losing vital health care coverage.
The Elderly Pharmaceutical Insurance Coverage (EPIC) program is a New York State program for seniors administered by the Department of Health. It helps more than 250,000 income-eligible seniors aged 65 and older to supplement their out-of-pocket Medicare Part D drug plan costs. Seniors can apply for EPIC at any time of the year and must be enrolled or eligible to be enrolled in a Medicare Part D drug plan to receive EPIC benefits and maintain coverage.
