The Linkages program provides assistance with coordination of home-care services. Social workers in the Linkages program assist individuals with their home care needs through assessment, planning, service arrangement, and monitoring.
Linkages serves the frail elderly and other adults with disabilities regardless of income.
The goal of the program is to arrange for, and monitor the use of, community services to prevent or delay the premature institutional placement of these frail persons. Clients eligible for MSSP must be 65 years of age or older, currently eligible for Medi-Cal, and also able to be certified as eligible for placement in a nursing facility. The MSSP site staff make this determination based upon Medi-Cal criteria for placement MSSP contracts for the purchase of goods and services from a variety of providers to provide its assistance to seniors. Applications forms and instructions are available for download here as an Adobe PDF for those individuals and organizations interested in contracting with the program to be providers. The application form, without instructions, is also available here as a Microsoft Word document.