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Thanks for sharing your story, Jenna! You’re right – it’s never too early to think about the future. You are smart to start with a plan. Good luck!
I’m interested in this topic, as I used to do transition planning with teens with intellectual disabilities who were close to graduating from high school. I know that some of the funding that was available when I was doing this work, like Passports and Special Services at Home, is much harder to get now, and that services are harder to access than ever.
How are families coping? What kind of things are they doing to create meaningful days for their youth with disabilities after they graduate?
Lots of good advice in this post. It’s for these reasons (and more) I used to recommend to the parents of the teens that I used to work with that they go see a financial professional once their teens started receiving ODSP.
There are just so many rules and regulations around assets, and a financial professional is really the best person to explain all of it. If you’re a relative of someone on ODSP, you really don’t want to risk endangering their income support just because you didn’t know not to do something – and, as Ron said, a financial professional can advise on how to make the most of income support given ODSP’s restrictions.
Great post, Ron!