Proxy Parent Newsletter Archive
2024
Spring Newsletter #30
- My Work With Three Beneficiaries
- A Cautionary Tale
- Book Review - The Best Minds
Fall Newsletter #31
- Can a Special Needs Trust Be Funded with a Retirement Account?
- Embracing a New Perspective: How a Family Member with Autism Shaped My Passion for Working with Special Needs Families
- Book Review - Profiles in Mental Health Courage
2023
Spring Newsletter #28
- A Grateful Parent
- Who to Designate as Trustee?
- The Positive Impact of Personal Support Services
- Book Review - Etiquette for the Ally in the Battle Against Ableism
Fall Newsletter #29
- ADU’s for the Disabled
- Legislative Report - California’s Mental Health Movement?
- Book Review - Lucky to be Alive
2022
Spring Newsletter #26
- Email from Board Member - John Buck
- Q&A with Baron Miller, Esq,
Part 2
- Article - Thanks for Listening
Fall Newsletter #27
- The Life of a Personal Support Specialist
- Q&A with Baron Miller, Esq,
Part 3
- Book Review - Six Interceptions in the Rough Game of Autistic Life
2021
Spring Newsletter #24
- Taking Time to Plan for the Future
- Mediating Needs
- Book Review - Caught in the Web of the Criminal Justice System
Fall Newsletter #25
- After the Diagnosis
- Book Review - A Voice From the Silence of Autism (Maybe) a review of Fall Down 7 Times Get Up 8
2020
Spring Newsletter #22
- Found
- Book Review - A Guide for Those Who Serve
Fall Newsletter #23
- How One Small Step Became a Giant Step
Q&A with Baron Miller, Esq.
- Book Review - Our Family’s Struggle
2019
Spring Newsletter #20
- All Things Must Pass
- Saying Yes
- The Show Goes On
- Book Review - In a Different Key - The Story of Autism
Fall Newsletter #21
- Simple Ways to Reduce Stress & Anxiety for Caregivers
- Granny Flats for the Disabled
- Book Review - Bedlam
2018
Spring Newsletter #18
- How to Supplement SSI
- Tolly’s Business Card
- Book Review - Treating the BRAIN: What the Best Doctors Know
Fall Newsletter #19
- Get Empowered
- Continuity of Care
- Book Review - The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
2017
Summer Newsletter #16
- My Two Children
- Anticipating The Future
- Book Review - Mental Illness: A Handbook for Careers
Winter Newsletter #17
- Dear Friends & Family of Proxy Parent Foundation
- Who to Designate as a Trustee
- Bruce’s Yams
- Book Review - Bi-Polar Disorder for Dummies
2016
Summer Newsletter #14
- Who Will Care When We’re Not Here?
- After Years of Psychiatric Problems, I Finally Have a PLAN
- Book Review - Tales From Both Sides of the Brain
Fall Newsletter #15
- How Can a PLAN Special Needs Trust Work Before It’s Funded? What is a PAYG?
- Legislative Report
- Book Review - The Mind-Gut Connection
2015
Summer Newsletter #13
- Funding a Special Needs Trust with a Retirement Account
- Achieving a Better Life Balance (ABLE) Act
- Book Review - Anatomy of an Epidemic: Magic Bullets, Psychiatric Drugs, and the Astonishing Rise in Mental Illness in America
2014
Fall Newsletter #12
- Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way…
- Will or Trust or …
- New Scientific Test for Mental Illness
2013
Spring Newsletter #11
- Nevertheless
- When Should a Special Needs Trust Go Into Effect?
- Capitol Insight
- Movie Review- Silver Linings Playbook
2012
Spring Newsletter #9
- How Safe Are Trust Funds?
- When the Rubber Hits the Road
- Book Review - Change Your Brain, Change Your Life: The Breakthrough Program for Conquering Anxiety, Depression, Obsessiveness, Anger, and Impulsiveness.
Fall Newsletter #10
- Legislative Update
- Do We Really Need a Special Needs Trust?
- SSI Electronic Payment Deadline
- Book Review - Father’s Day: A Journey into the Mind and Heart of My Extraordinary Son
2011
Spring Newsletter #7
- The All-Time Courage Team
- Health Reform & Public Mental Health: The First Wave
- Book Review: The Cleveland Guide to Epilepsy
Fall Newsletter #8
- Personal Support Services
- Personal Support Services - Image or Reality
- Book Review - Your Mental Health: A Layman’s Guide to the Psychiatrist’s Bible
2010
Spring Newsletter #5
- Personal Support Services
- Importance of Trustee
- Book Review - Treating the Brain
Fall Newsletter #6
- Pooled Trusts for Over 65yrs
- Impact - Health Care Reform
- Timely Funding - Special Needs Trusts
- Book Review - The Mind & the Brain
2009
Spring Newsletter #3
- Focus on Benefits
- SSI in 2009
- Coping w/Budget Issues
- Alexandria Hotel Claimants
Fall Newsletter #4
- Exec Dir Message
- What is a Special Needs Trusts
- 1st Party & Pooled Special Needs Trusts
- Book Review - Boy Alone
2008
Spring Newsletter #1
- PLAN-Update
- History of PLAN
- Pay-As-You-Go
Fall Newsletter #2
- President’s Message
- New Volunteers
- Advisor Update