Our Mission...
Is to provide people with disabilities, their families, and the organizations supporting them on-line life planning, along with services, to effectively support the person with disabilities.
Who benefits from Life Planning?
People with developmental disabilities, mental illness, brain injuries, serious physcial disabilities and seniors with disabilties, along with the families and organizations supporting them have the greatest need for life planning.
What is Life Planning?
Life Planning is a coordinated and life long process of answering one important question. Who is the person with disabilities and how do people properly support them and effectively plan for their future?
Having an efficient system to answer this question is perhaps the single most important advocacy tool people with disabilties, their families and the organizations that support them can create and maintain.
Why is Life Planning Important?
Most people with significant disabilties need the support of other people to lead productive self-directed lives. This support begins when the disability is diagnosed and often lasts a lifetime. The reality is people with significant disabilties often receive support from scores of people (teachers, aids, case managers, personal assistants, therapists and doctors) over their lifetimes. Therefore, it is critical that people with disabilities, their parents/guardians and the organizations that support them use an information system that is easily accessible and effective in describing who the person is and how to best care for them.
Unfortunately most families, because of their familiarity with the person, often transmit information by word of mouth rather than creating a written plan. Organizations and government agencies supporting people with significant disabilities are better at creating information platforms, however, these systems are often: limited in their scope primarily focused on one area of support (health and personal care, education or employment), do not emphasize strengths as well as limitations, are not easily accessible and updateable by interested parties (particularly families), are not lifelong in their perspective, do not include the support plans of the education and post-school social service system, and finally lack multi-media capability.
In addition, few systems incorporate personal and family financial and legal planning into the overall information and planning system.
Disability Services & Advocacy, LLC (DS&A) On-line Life Planning System
We have created an internet based, security protected, web and print based information system that produces a comprehensive multi-media profile of the person with disabilities. The foundation of the profile is a set of very detailed, yet easy to complete assessments of the person with disabilties:
These online assessments are conveniently organized into the following life categories to speed access and ease of use: Personal Character Strengths, Education, Personal Care and Awareness, Medical Conditions, Independent Living Skills, Vocational Skills, Family Financial and Legal Planning, Community Supports, Personal Income and Expenses, Relationships, and Daily Routines.
The system can also access videos that show how to provide proper personal care or deal with behavior issues. In addition, the system is set up to store the relevant support plans used by the education system (IEP's) and the various post-school government agenicies (Developmental Disabilities, Mental Illness, Vocational Rehabilitation, etc.) that provide support to people with disabilities.
Our On-line Life Planning System is currently under construction and will be introduced in the Fall of 2012.
Other Serives of Disability Services & Advocacy, LLC (NJ Only)
In addition to our on-line Life Planning System which is available worldwide, indicated below is a list of services that we offer in our home state of New Jersey:
LINK TO DS&A'S ON-LINE NJ DISABILITY SUPPORT SYSTEM
PRO-SE GUARDIANSHIP
APPLYING FOR SOCIAL SERVICES
TRANSITION PLANNING CONSULTING
ESSENTIAL LIFESTYLE PLANNING
SUPPORT COORDINATION
FINANCIAL COORDINATION
LEGAL PLANNING COORDINATION
WORKSHOPS & SEMINARS FOR YOUR ORGANIZATION
Disability Services & Advocacy, LLC looks forward to working with you in creating an on-line Life Plan or providing one of services we offer in our home state of New Jersey. Please contact us if you would like more information and pricing of our services.
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