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Relieve your worry. Now there is help for your planning: The Safe Harbor Project is a way to assist aging parents and other informal caregivers when emergencies and chronic conditions keep them from their responsibilities.

There are 13,000 Ohioans with disabilities aged 22 and older that live with families. Of that, nearly 4,800 are age 40 and older. Many in this group live with elderly parents who support them.

Without plans in place for emergencies or death of a caregiver, adult people with disabilities could easily fall under state care. Currently, families give approximately $88 million for informal care of family members. Staying with families is usually the least restrictive environment and most satisfying for the person with the disability. Informal caregiving is unpaid care provided voluntarily by family or friends to a person with a disability.

Transferring care to the state would cause higher costs to come from the state budget, and the level of care may not be as acceptable. So both the state and the families have stakes in creating plans for emergencies and long-term care.

The Ohio Developmental Disabilities Council funds more than one initiative on long-term care and believes The Safe Harbor Project can take efforts farther by helping families create long-term care plans that start with detailed emergency plans.

Links to Upcoming Training:
Special Needs Planning: A Workshop for Attorneys and Financial Planners
April 17, 2007
8:00 AM - NOON

Links to Related Resources:

Planning for the Future
Planning for a meaningful life for
A Child with a Disability
After your Death
By Russell and Grant

For a link to this book - Click here

The DD Council required The Safe Harbor Project to make available to project families, information on the concept of MICROBOARDS. The Safe Harbor Project will provide written material and trainings regarding MICROBOARDS. A MICROBOARD is a small group of committed family and friends that join with a person to create a small nonprofit society that addresses the person’s needs in an empowering and customized fashion. Follow these links for more information about microboards:
www.microboard.org
www.tnmicroboards.org
www.self-determined.org
www.communityworks.info

Safe Harbor is a project of Planned Lifetime Assistance Network (PLAN) of Southeast Ohio, Inc. and is provided through a contract with Elder Care of the Ohio Valley, Athens.

Funded by Ohio Developmental Disabilities Council through grant #01-9B.

The Safe Harbor Project
100 South May Avenue, Suite C
Athens, Ohio 45701-2017
Voice: (740) 594-7526
Fax: (740) 592-5746
Email: info@safeharborproject.com

…Protecting the care of adult family members with disabilities during emergencies and ensuring them safe harbor for the future.

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