Our family highly recommends and wholeheartedly endorses PLAN|NJ
“Our family highly recommends and wholeheartedly endorses PLAN|NJ to anyone looking for help caring for and protecting a loved one with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD). Our daughter is 17 years old and has IDD. Currently, she is safe and well cared for since she is home with us. However, we have grappled with a number of questions regarding our daughter’s future that have plagued and stressed us as parents and have such consequential implications for her. They include:
- Who will keep an eye on our daughter to make sure she is well cared for and happy once we are no longer able?
- Who will visit with her to make sure she is fully engaged in the community doing the things she loves to do?
- Who will make sure the complicated Medicaid and DDD regulations and paperwork are adhered to and done correctly and in a timely manner so she doesn’t lose critical benefits?
- Who will check on our daughter in her future home, and make sure she is content with her housemates and staff?
- Who will be the executor of her special needs trust and her guardian if need be?
- If every future plan we attempt to make for our daughter fails, what will be our fail-safe solution?
Fortunately, we found the answer to our questions in PLAN|NJ! We feel an incredible sense of relief and peace knowing that PLAN|NJ will act as a fiduciary for our daughter in practically any capacity we want. We enlisted PLAN|NJ to periodically visit our daughter to make sure she is well placed in her future home, and that she is happy, safe, and busy with the activities she loves. PLAN|NJ will do all the “heavy lifting” of fulfilling Medicaid and DDD requirements, so our extended family members can focus on being a loving family and doing fun activities with our daughter, without any onerous administrative burdens. Ultimately PLAN|NJ will be our fail-safe solution. We know that PLAN|NJ will take 100% responsibility for our daughter in her future life, looking out for her best interests, helping to facilitate a high quality of life, and honoring our many wishes for her, even if the world around her goes “off the rails.”
What more could we want for our daughter?”
Best,
Bob Hage and Odette Adrian
CIRCLE OF SUPPORT
People with Disabilities
Families & Friends
Attorneys & Financial Planners
Human Service Providers
WE’RE IN THIS TOGETHER!
One in four adults in the United States lives with an intellectual,
developmental, or physical disability or a mental health challenge.
Your tax-deductible donation will help us enhance the quality of life for more people with disabilities and their families through services that promote self-determination, provide exemplary care coordination, and guide them in their financial affairs. Please help support our work by making a contribution today!
GET IN TOUCH
Planned Lifetime Assistance Network of New Jersey (PLAN/NJ)
PO Box 547
Somerville, NJ 08876-0547
908-575-8300 (Phone)
908-927-9010 (Fax)
info@plannj.org
PROUD MEMBERS OF
Alliance for the Betterment of Citizens with Disabilities
Association of People Supporting Employment First
National Alliance on Mental Illness
National Guardianship Association
National PLAN Alliance
OUR MISSION
PLAN|NJ’s mission is to help families of individuals with disabilities answer all of the challenging questions embedded within the larger one: “Who will care for my loved one when I am gone?”
We coordinate the supports needed by individuals with intellectual, developmental and physical disabilities, and challenges with mental health, including people with autism, cerebral palsy, traumatic brain injury, severe mental illness and more.