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About Us
The PLAN/NJ mission is to answer the question, "who will care for my loved one when I am gone?"
PLAN/NJ provides practical solutions to families and their loved ones with significant disabilities or mental illness, thus lessening the fear and anxiety families experience when planning for the future.
WE BELIEVE that people with disabilities have a right to experience the quality of life, and to receive the services that they and their families desire for as long as necessary.
WE DELIVER SERVICES by forming a circle of support comprised of families, social service providers, attorneys, financial advisors, and trust administrators. This enables us to deliver specific plans of action and ensure that necessary services are delivered.
FINANCIAL STATUS
PLAN/NJ is a statewide non-profit, 501 (c)(3) corporation. Annual Report is available upon request to the Executive Director.
SERVICES
For over 18 years we have been offering services in the following major categories:
Educating families, human service professionals, and other groups about the importance of financial, legal, and social service planning for the lifelong care of a child or other family member with special needs through seminars, workshops, personalized presentations, newsletters, and brochures. These services are offered free of charge to participating families.
Assisting families in the planning process by working directly with parents to help them create a comprehensive, detailed future plan for their disabled family member, called a CarePlan, consisting of three key steps:
1. Help parents identify those things they presently do for their child that are central to his/her well-being, such as helping with housing issues, purchasing clothing, celebrating birthdays, or a monthly lunch date.
2. Enable parents to identify resources, such as state funded services, or government benefits that will meet their child's crucial needs when they are no longer able to do so.
3. Help parents decide which social services provided by PLAN/NJ will satisfy unmet needs identified in the CarePlan.
Providing comprehensive social services to families and their loved ones with special needs and addressing unmet needs identified in each CarePlan. These services include advocacy, monitoring, guardianship, personalized coaching and guidance, handling government benefits, special needs trust administration, and serving as a permanent data repository where families can record and maintain medical information, family, and individual data, etc.
Administering Special Needs Trusts. A critical component of PLAN/NJ, trust administration, is handled in a number of ways; funds may be in a free-standing trust, benefiting single individuals, or they may be in community trusts such as the PLAN/NJ Community Trust, which pools funds for investment purposes, although each beneficiary has their own account for spending purposes. Our expertise in working with people with developmental disabilities and mental illness, and the social service systems that support them, makes us uniquely qualified to effectively perform this function.
Fees are charged for this service. Financial assistance via scholarship may apply. Please call.
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