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Friday August 30
2019
 Webinar: Issue Spotting: Medicaid, Medicare, and Related Issues

Learn how to identify different issues & differentiate the various programs

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  • When
    Friday, August 30, 2019
    10:00 am - 12:00 pm
  • CLE Credits
    Skills: 1.00
    Areas of Professional Practice: 1.00
  • Format
    Webinar: Questions Allowed During Program
  • Practice Area(s)
    Public Benefits
  • Price: $0

About the Faculty

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    Paula Arboleda (Speaker)

    Paula Arboleda (she, her, ella) is the Director of Public Benefits and LGBTQ Advocacy at Bronx Legal Services. She co-manages a team focused on providing legal services to vulnerable low-income Bronx residents who need assistance obtaining, retaining, or increasing vital public assistance benefits such as cash welfare, rental subsidies, WIC, and SNAP as well as public health insurance and home care services. She works with the LGBTQ Advocacy Project to provide comprehensive legal services to low-income LGBTQ people on a multitude of legal issues, such as immigration, public benefits, and name changes. Prior to joining Bronx Legal Services, Paula worked exclusively on health care and elder law issues as a senior advocate with the New York Legal Assistance Group (NYLAG). While at NYLAG, she gained expertise working with Medicaid health insurance, Medicaid funded home care services, the Medicare Part D prescription drug program, and related health insurance programs for low-income seniors. She provided trainings for professionals and consumers, one-on-one counseling and direct advocacy to thousands of seniors and people with disabilities. Paula is a part-time instructor with the Brookdale Center for Healthy Aging at Hunter College in their Aging and Geriatric Care Management certificate program. She earned dual graduate degrees (a Masters of Social Services and a Masters in Law and Social Policy) in 2008 from Bryn Mawr College?s Graduate School of Social Work, and her B.A., Magna cum laude, in 2005 from Bryn Mawr College.
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    Michael Connors (Speaker)

    Michael (he, him, ?l), is the Deputy Director at Bronx Legal Services where he is a part of the Public Benefits & LGBTQ Advocacy Units. Prior to joining LSNYC Michael worked at the New York Legal Assistance Group where he was a part of the Tenants? Rights Unit and the Evelyn Frank Legal Resources Program. As a member of the Tenants? Rights Unit, Michael represented low-income clients in Queens facing eviction in housing court. While with the Evelyn Frank Legal Resources Program he assisted elderly and disabled New Yorkers navigate the complex systems that provide access to health care, home care, and other vital services by providing legal education on the complex rules of Medicaid and Medicare to social services and health care professionals, technical assistance to professionals on individual cases, and direct representation. Michael is originally from Brentwood, New York and is a graduate of Boston College and CUNY School of Law.