Building a Supportive Future: Social Aspects of Estate Planning for Parents/Caregivers of Children with Exceptional Needs
Online | Online
“What will happen to our children once we have gone?” This Webinar will focus on the valuable endeavor of how parents can plan for the legal and social aspects for their children's future. We will address the importance of future care planning, brief legal aspects, social support and well-being, how to build a support network, and suggested resources. Viewers will also have the opportunity to ask questions.
Rebecca Pauls
Rebecca Pauls is the Executive Director of Planned Lifetime Advocacy Network. PLAN works together with people with disabilities and their families and networks to build good lives now, and build solid plans for the future. This frequently involves becoming well-informed about wills, trusts and estate planning as a way of securing the financial future of their family.
Laurie Geschke
Laurie Geschke is a lifetime member of PLAN, as well as being a dedicated parent and volunteer who has worked with a variety of non-profit, non-government organizations for over 30 years. She has founded and/or served on the boards of corporate, non-profit and charitable organizations in a variety of capacities, including most recently the Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder Society of BC due to her experience with and knowledge of autism. Laurie also published the electronic newsletter for PLAN’s Lifetime Members, is bilingual (English and French) and also speaks some Spanish. She has a broad range of interests including creating hand-bound leather journals, art cards and jewelry, as well as studying brain development and cognition enhancement technologies. Laurie has co-led the Plan Institute Wills, Trusts, & Estates Workshop for over 13 years.
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