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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