This seminar is intended for special needs persons, and/or their families, who are about to need housing or are having difficulties with current housing arrangements.
We will start with a lecture format that will provide practical tools you can use, and an overview of benefits programs, including:
- Special needs trusts
- Section 8
- Miscellaneous benefits (e.g. fuel assistance, SNAP, etc.)
- AFC
- FANNIE MAE financing program and HUD financing options
- Person-centered planning
- DDS MASSCAP tool
- Sample housing models
- Financial (DDS funding, life insurance, SSI/SSDI/DAC)
This will be followed by a panel discussion on ideas that have worked/not worked, and why:
- Successes to copy
- Lessons not to be repeated
Presented by attorneys Frederick M. Misilo, Jr. and Theresa M. Varnet
Hosted by: Fletcher Tilton PC, Attorneys at Law
Co-sponsored by:
- Autism Speaks
- Advocates, Inc.
- Advocates for Autism of Massachusetts (AFAM)
- Miller Mortgage, LLC
- Friends Or Relatives With Autism and Related Disabilities (FORWARD)
- Horace Mann Education Associates (HMEA)
Event Description:This seminar is intended for special needs persons, and/or their families, who are about to need housing or are having difficulties with current housing arrangements.