Ending Homelessness & Promoting Recovery

SSI/SSDI Outreach, Access, and Recovery (SOAR) helps states and communities end homelessness for adults with serious mental illness (SMI) and children with serious emotional disturbance (SED) through increased access to Social Security disability benefits. The pictured individuals are only a few of the 68,000+ people whose lives have been transformed with SOAR assistance.

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Online Courses

Enroll in a SOAR Online Course to learn about SSA's disability determination process and how to submit a complete and thorough SSI/SSDI application using the SOAR model.

SOAR Online Course: Adult Curriculum

This course trains case workers to assist adults (age 18+) who are experiencing or at risk of homelessness and have a serious mental illness, medical impairment, and/or a co-occurring substance use disorder to apply for the Social Security Administration’s (SSA) disability programs, Supplemental Security Income (SSI) and Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI).

SOAR Online Course: Child Curriculum

This course trains case workers to assist children (under age 18) who are experiencing or at risk of homelessness and have a serious mental illness, medical impairment, and/or a co-occurring substance use disorder to apply for Supplemental Security Income (SSI), a Social Security Administration (SSA) disability benefit program.