We're the Planned Lifetime Advocacy Network (PLAN) - a non-profit society dedicated to safeguarding the future of persons with a disability. This book offers clear, practical guidance for planning for the future. It includes information on government benefits, alternatives to adult guardianship, financial planning, will and estate planning, discretionary trusts,home ownership and establishing a network of friends.
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Al Etmanski is an author, advocacy consultant and social inventor who specializes in finding innovative, non-governmental solutions to social problems. Etmanski is co-founder and executive director of Planned Lifetime Advocacy Network, an independent non-profit assisting families across North America, plan for the future, safety and wellbeing of their relative with a disability. PLAN links people with disabilities into the heart of community by emphasizing their gifts, assets and contributions. PLAN was designated as a 'charity of the future' in an independent study of 75,000 Canadian charities.
Al is a parent of 5 children one of whom has a disability. He is known for his expertise in fostering social enterprise within the civic sector, converting social capital to economic capital, the innovative use of non profit, profit and public sectors as problem solving partners and creating alternatives to legal guardianship. He is the author of, A Good Life - For You and Your Relative with a Disability and Safe and Secure - Six Steps to Creating a Personal Future Plan for People with Disabilities.
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A practical guide to creating a good life,
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This review is from: A Good Life (Paperback)
As the parent of a 32-year-old man with Down syndrome, I'm always on the lookout for good, practical, sensible resources that can guide us as we create a full, interesting life for Jim. This is one of the resources. What we want for our sons and daughters doesn't have to depend on the whims of social services and funding programs; it depends on families regaining control of simple, fundamental questions: what do we want? and what is a good life? It's a simple but profound shift in the way we help our children define themselves in our families, in our communities and the eyes of those systems that see them first and foremost as "disabled." This book, prepared by parents and others knowledgeable about these things, is not only full of good suggestions. It helps guide us step by step as we help our sons and daughters plan and look forward to their future--ultimately, a future without us. This book reminds us with its stories, its practical suggestions, its checklists and things to think about and act upon, that we don't have to be just recipients because we have a family member with a disability. We can be creators.
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Buy this book if you are a parent of someone with an intellectual or developmental disability,
This review is from: A Good Life (Paperback)
This is a must read for parents and care-givers that want to go beyond the "service delivery system"--to imagine and create something better for their loved one with a disability.I have four dauthers, the youngest is 27 with Down syndrome, and I want for all of them the same thing: a good life. If you want the same, read this book!
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