PTLive - Protected Tomorrows Special Needs Directory

Paralyzed Veterans of America works to maximize the quality of life for its members and all people with SCI/D as a leading advocate for health care, SCI/D research and education, veterans’ benefits and rights, accessibility and the removal of architectural barriers, sports programs, and disability rights.

The Alexander Leigh Center for Autism is a developmental learning center and therapeutic day school for children with autistic spectrum disorders. It is our mission to provide an environment where children on the autistic spectrum can develop their potential academically, emotionally, socially, communicatively, physically and gain functional Independence, using current best practice, research based, peer reviewed interventions that are selected for each child based on their individual needs.

Ehlert Financial Group is a registered investment advisory firm, with unique experience in the clients they serve. They provide financial advice to those families with special needs, the aging, widows, and divorced individuals

Life'sPlan Inc. operates trust options for meeting the supplemental service needs of people with disabilities and the elderly without jeopardizing state and federal entitlements.

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A Michigan based professional LLC providing parents, students, teachers, and administrators with law related resources

Our goal is to advance the dignity, equality, self-determination, and expressed choices of individuals. Michigan Protection and Advocacy Service, Inc. (MPAS) promotes, expands and protects the human and legal rights of people by providing them with information and advocacy.

Oast & Hook is an Elder Law firm. We represent older persons, disabled persons, their families, and their advocates. The practice of Elder Law includes estate planning, investment and insurance advice, estate and trust administration, powers of attorney, advance medical directives, titling of assets and designations of beneficiaries, guardianships, conservatorships, and public entitlements such as Medicaid, Medicare, Social Security, and SSI, disability planning, income tax planning and preparation, bill paying and account management and reporting, care management, and fiduciary services. We also handle litigation involving these issues, such as will contests and estate administration disputes.

Charlie and his staff at the Law Offices of Charles F. Robinson are personally and professionally committed to serving the needs of our clients and their families. We believe it is our obligation to stay current on laws and regulations affecting our clients, to anticipate changes in the law, and to advocate for responsible, fair and realistic improvements in the system. We offer comprehensive asset protection planning for the elderly and the incapacitated. We offer expertise in the rules and regulations of the Florida Medicaid Institutional Care Program (nursing homes). We offer years of experience and hundreds of successfully completed Medicaid applications. We offer estate planning and death planning as part of our asset protection planning process. We offer asset and trust administration for those who are unable or unwilling to manage. We offer our services either in person at our office or anywhere in the state of Florida by skilled use of the telephone, e-mail, and mail delivery.

The Florida Institute for Neurologic Rehabilitation, Inc. (FINR) is dedicated to excellence in the provision of rehabilitation, education and vocational services to both children and adult survivors of brain injury

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James Doherty is self-employed as a medical/rehabilitation consultant in the private sector. He is also a licensed Advocate of Protected Tomorrows®. Over the past 25 years, Jim worked as a catastrophic injury consultant for the casualty reinsurance industry, coordinating rehabilitation services throughout the United States and Canada for severely injured individuals and their families. Jim’s interest in the special needs community began years ago when a family member was admitted to the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago for treatment. Soon after, he started his career in rehabilitation while employed in various capacities at the Institute. This experience gave him the opportunity to work with individuals who later started the independent living movement in Chicago. Jim received his Master of Social Work degree from Loyola University of Chicago. He also holds certifications in life care planning, case management and disability management. Jim and his family live in Park Ridge, Illinois.

Theodore J. Doremus is a Registered Investment Advisor with Lara, Shull & May, an independent tax and investment planning firm, where he has worked since August 2000 serving the Virginia/Washington, D.C. metro area. He is blessed with a mother who has special needs, and for the past five years, he has dedicated most of his practice to helping families who have children with special needs. Being a licensed Advocate of Protected Tomorrows, along with his compassion, experience and knowledge, enables him to provide exceptional financial and life planning guidance to families with special needs.

Mary Anne Ehlert is President of Ehlert Financial Group, Inc. and Protected Tomorrows, Inc., and sister to an individual with disabilities. A Certified Financial Planner and having the benefit of more than 33 years of financial planning experience, she is highly regarded as an expert in working with families of individuals with disabilities, as well as the elderly. Mary Anne regularly travels around the country speaking to various disability groups about the positive impact a person with a disability has on the world.

For the last 20 years, Alicia Fitts has had various roles in the financial services industry, which includes insurance, banking, consulting and training. For the past 10 years, she has been working on family estate planning issues, teaming with attorneys, accountants and financial advisors. Alicia knows first hand the difficulties families face when a loved one in the family suffers from a disability. Alicia’s brother suffered a massive stroke resulting in physical and mental disabilities. His stroke forced their family to learn about and adopt a financial plan for his future which melded into a larger estate plan for the family as a whole and which provided for his family. Other family members also have lived with both physical and mental disabilities and which chronic illness.

Paul M. Goyette, a Certified Financial Planner Practitioner with Northeast Planning Associates serving the Manchester, New Hampshire and Boston area. Paul specializes creating financial strategies for retirees and pre-retirees, especially those who have family members with special needs, simplifying what seems complex. Paul understands the unique challenges families face. He has a nephew with autism. Being a licensed Protected Tomorrows Advocate gives him the tools to help families plan for the future in all areas of life.

John R. James is a Licensed Advocate with Protected Tomorrows®. He has been serving individual and business owner clients for the past 40 years, in the financial services industry. During that time, he has been involved with a regional non-profit foundation, both as a board member and as the interim Executive Director. This involvement has added experience in planned giving, endowments, and estate and care planning. John's specialty is providing clients a high level of customer service typical of a concierge style. In the Life Planning process, he and his staff strive to deliver value above the expected level of service.

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Carl Mook is the founder and president of the CM Financial Group, a financial planning firm with offices throughout northern Illinois and a corporate office in Sycamore. He holds several security and insurance licenses. Carl opened his financial planning practice in 1981 after a successful 17 year teaching career, which involved working with students with learning disabilities. Being a licensed Advocate of Protected Tomorrows enables Carl and his firm to have a positive impact on many more people with developmental disabilities and their families. The Process for Protected Tomorrows fits with his philosophy of caring and sharing.

Gerald Rowley is the advocate for Tomorrow’s Life Care Plans (TLC Plans). TLC Plans provides obtainable solutions for families with children or other loved ones with special needs living in Utah's Wasatch Front. Gerald has a unique professional background that has provided a foundation for helping the special needs community. Gerald graduated from Weber State University in Ogden, Utah with a Bachelors Degree in Human Development, Psychology, and Zoology. He then graduated from Colorado State University in Fort Collins, Colorado with a Bachelors Degree in Occupational Therapy. Gerald worked with individuals with physical limitations for 11 years. He then transitioned from helping families in the medical field, to helping families as a financial advisor. Gerald has spent the last eight years as a “financial therapist”. Becoming a Protected Tomorrow's Advocate has given Gerald an opportunity to combine his unique life experience, his medical background and financial education to help families in a very specific way to achieve peace.

We are a beautiful loving environment for intellectually disabled people of all ages. We offer education, vocational training and placement, an incredible variety of recreational activities and a wide choice of friends from all across the country and the world.

LifeCare Design Studio in conjunction with it's parent company "Protected Tomorrows Inc." is embarking on all encompassing programs to design, build and manage residential and community projects for young adults as well as the elderly with special needs". Funding negotiations have begun to develop these programs through both philanthropic as well as private investment programs

Shepherds exists to glorify Jesus Christ by supporting people with developmental disabilities to reach their potential.It is our desire to be a pre-eminent provider of Christ-centered services for people with developmental disabilities in order to encourage them in a personal and growing relationship with Jesus Christ and support them in reaching Appropriate Independence.

The National Center on Accessibility has developed a one-hour e-course as an introduction to the principles of Universal Design for park and recreation practitioners.

Provider of quality vocational, residential and educational options, substance abuse prevention and treatment, and health care.