Welcome to Health & Disability Advocates' website. Health & Disability Advocates (HDA) is a national organization, based in Chicago, Illinois, that uses multiple strategies to promote income security and improve healthcare access and services for children, people with disabilities and low-income, older adults.
HDA’s team of legal and policy experts provides a range of services including individual client services and legal representation, and customized trainings and technical assistance for a range of audiences, including consumers, service providers and state agencies. We also develop innovative projects and policies to protect and strengthen federal and state safety-net programs including Supplemental Security Income (SSI), Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI), Medicare and Medicaid.
For information on current projects underway at HDA, go to the Technical Assistance & Training, Innovative Program & Policy Work, or Client Services & Legal Representation, sections of this website.
Please Join Health & Disability Advocates and AARP Illinois for the
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2008 Medicaid and Healthcare Policy Summit, December 5, 2008
This engaging, one-day forum will provide advocates, policymakers, providers, legislators and others with the opportunity to learn about current Medicaid issues and federal and state health care coverage options for the 1.4 million uninsured adults in Illinois.
What's New at HDA
HDA TIPS available now!
A new version of HDA TIPS (formerly TAP TIPS) is now available! HDA TIPS are a set of public benefits resource materials designed to help hospital providers, case handlers and social workers refer their patients to the programs and services they need. They are pocket sized so that service providers can keep them at their finger tips and quickly refer clients to any applicable programs they may be eligible for, assist them in completing public benefits applications, and help when problems occur in accessing these programs. Click here to see the online version of HDA TIPS. To find out how you can get your own copy of the pocket sized HDA TIPS flip book, contact HDA at 312-223-9600.
Online Library
View these recent additions to the Library, or search our entire collection.2008 Medicaid Policy Summit Invitation
This is the invitation for HDA's 2008 Medicaid Policy Summit scheduled for Decmeber 5 in Chicago.
HDA Tips Public Benefits Resource Materials
HDA TIPS (formerly known as TAP TIPS) are a public benefits resource guide for case managers, social workers, and healthcare professionals to use in answering questions that they or their clients have about the specific programs and services available to them. This pocket advocacy guide was updated in September, 2008.
After a Year, All Kids Bridge Program is Not Running - Chicago Tribune Story, Sept. 7, 2008
This Chicago Tribune article describes the failed expansion of the Illinois All Kids Program. The All Kids Bridge program designed to extend healthcare coverage to seriously ill children aged 19-21, still has not begun a year after the Governor's announcement of the new program.
