The Social Security Administration’s (SSA) Ticket to Work (TTW) Program Manager for Recruitment and Outreach (PMRO) has a three-fold mission. First, to build capacity for the TTW Program by recruiting new Employment Networks. Then, once the capacity exists, to increase awareness of beneficiaries of the TTW Program and then connect the beneficiaries with ENs in order to provide them re-employment options to improve their quality of life.

Since November of 2006, CESSI Division of Axiom Resource Management, Inc. (hereinafter CESSI) has been the TTW PMRO. CESSI understands the variety of channels and partnerships that must be built and maintained in order to be successful in this endeavor and has partnered, through contractual agreements, with several organizations to implement new EN recruitment models. This conglomerate, the PMRO Team, has been bolstered by recent activities to publish new TTW implementing regulations. With this advance, the PMRO Team, under CESSI’s guidance, is actively engaging stakeholders across the country in support of the 2008 program goals and initiatives:

2008 Goals and Initiatives

Goal 1: Increase EN participation
Goal 2: Increase Beneficiary Awareness of ENs and the TTW Program
Goal 3: Facilitate Beneficiary Access to and Utilization of ENs
Goal 4: Improve Operational Effectiveness
Goal 5: Utilize Technology to Meet Requirements

Initiative 1: National Partnership Summit
Initiative 2: 120 Day National Outreach Strategy: The New Ticket Express