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Safe
and Secure
Six Steps to Creating A Personal Future
Plan For People with Disabilities
by Al Etmanski with Jack Collins & Vicki
Cammack
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Personal Futures Plan is a six-step process
families can follow to create a safe, secure,
and pleasant future for their family member
with disabilities. It includes the best
of your experiences, your dreams and nightmares,
your wishes for the future, and your knowledge
and expertise. It combines all of these
with active involvement of your loved one
with a disability, other members of your
family, and selected knowledgeable professionals.
It is a plan that you create, control, and
direct. It is the focused on the here and
now. It is also geared to a time when you
will no longer be around.
The
six steps are as follows:
STEP ONE Clarifying Your Vision
STEP TWO Building Relationships
STEP THREE Controlling the Home Environment
STEP FOUR Preparing for Decision-Making
STEP FIVE Developing Your Will and Estate
Plan
STEP SIX Securing Your Plan
This
book is designed to allow families to be
an informed consumer of the professional
services that are available in the future
planning industry. By following the steps
and advice presented in the book, you will
be better prepared, use less professional
time, and save yourself money.
The author(s) invite you to customize "Safe
and Secure" to meet your needs. Add personal
data, photos, records, medical information,
etc. Think of it as a manuscript to the
future.
Worksheets
are included. The Appendix contains information
on suggested resources for each of the
Six Steps. This manual was developed by
Planned Life Advocacy Network (PLAN),
a organization of Parents in British Columbia.
Copyright
© 1996 Planned Lifetime Advocacy Network
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PLAN
- Planned Life Advocacy Network
#260 - 3665 Kingsway
Vancouver, B.C.
V5R 5W2
Telephone: (604) 439-9566
Fax: (604) 439-7001
E-mail: inquiries@plan.ca
Web site: www.plan.ca
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Description
of Resource: 149 pages, soft cover
Approximate
Cost: $29.00 (Canadian)
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