Voice and Choice – Important Discussions Around Legal Decision Making for Adult Students

The October 2024 Special Needs Planning Call will be held on Thursday, October 17th at 12 pm ET.

Guest speaker Annette Hines will be presenting, "Voice and Choice – Important Discussions Around Legal Decision Making for Adult Students."

In this session, you will learn how to make this a person-centered process and what the alternatives to guardianship are in our state and our country.  We will discuss the range of options to support legal decision-making, including supported decision-making agreements (“SDM”), Health Care Proxies, Powers of Attorney and more.

Attorney, mother, author, advocate and founder of Special Needs Law Group,  Special Needs Family Services,  The Special Needs Companies, and host of Parenting Impossible - The Special Needs Survival Podcast.  Annette Hines, brings personal experience with special needs to her work as the mother of two daughters, one of whom passed away from Mitochondrial disease in November 2013. This deep personal understanding of raising a child with disabilities fuels her passion for quality special needs planning.