CoverRight assembled a passionate, diverse, and driven team to help make Medicare easy. They believe healthcare coverage is the most important choice for Americans and are on a mission to make Medicare more transparent and accessible for America’s 60 million Medicare recipients. Their technology and friendly advisors simplify a traditionally complex, opaque, and stressful decision, helping the 10,000 people retiring every single day in the U.S. find, select and enroll in the right health insurance plan. 

CoverRight believes it's essential their customers get personalized suggestions.  

Contact Web: https://coverright.com/

Phone: +1 (888) 969-7667 | TTY Users: 711 

Facebook: @coverrightmedicare  

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For more information about True North Disability Planning you can find us here:

Web: https://truenorthdisabilityplanning.com/

Blog - https://ejorgensenwordpresscom.wordpress.com

Podcast (ABC's of Disability Planning) - https://anchor.fm/abcs-disability-planning

Waypoints - https://waypoints.substack.com/

Facebook: @TrueNorthDisabilityPlanning

Twitter: @NeedsNavigator

Resource store (free downloads too) - https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/True-North-Disability-Planning

CoverRight assembled a passionate, diverse, and driven team to help make Medicare easy. They believe healthcare coverage is the most important choice for Americans and are on a mission to make Medicare more transparent and accessible for America’s 60 million Medicare recipients. Their technology and friendly advisors simplify a traditionally complex, opaque, and stressful decision, helping the 10,000 people retiring every single day in the U.S. find, select and enroll in the right health insurance plan. 

CoverRight believes it's essential their customers get personalized suggestions.  

Contact Web: https://coverright.com/

Phone: +1 (888) 969-7667 | TTY Users: 711 

Facebook: @coverrightmedicare  

As an Amazon Associate, I earn commissions from qualifying purchases.

For more information about True North Disability Planning you can find us here:

Web: https://truenorthdisabilityplanning.com/

Blog - https://ejorgensenwordpresscom.wordpress.com

Podcast (ABC's of Disability Planning) - https://anchor.fm/abcs-disability-planning

Waypoints - https://waypoints.substack.com/

Facebook: @TrueNorthDisabilityPlanning

Twitter: @NeedsNavigator

Resource store (free downloads too) - https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/True-North-Disability-Planning

Natalie Hawkins is the founder of Notes by Natalie and a board-certified music therapist working in special education classrooms. She also works as a music therapy consultant and related service provider.  

Natalie creates resources for special education professionals and caregivers for educational and home settings to enhance, engage, and assist in daily living or therapeutic goals. She facilitates music therapy sessions working on specific Individualized Education Program goals with students with varying diagnoses.   

Website: https://www.notes-by-natalie.com/ 

Facebook: @empoweringfuturegenerations

Twitter: @notes_natalie  

Instagram: @notes_by_natalie  

Email: [email protected]  

Phone: 660-346-0571

Episode 17, Music Therapy w/ Darcy O'Daniel: https://anchor.fm/abcs-disability-planning/episodes/17-Music-Therapy-w-Darcy-ODaniel--BC-MT-e19cpc1

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For more information about True North Disability Planning you can find us here:

Web: https://truenorthdisabilityplanning.com/

Blog - https://ejorgensenwordpresscom.wordpress.com

Podcast (ABC's of Disability Planning) - https://anchor.fm/abcs-disability-planning

Waypoints - https://waypoints.substack.com/

Facebook: @TrueNorthDisabilityPlanning

Twitter: @NeedsNavigator

Resource store (free downloads too) - https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/True-North-Disability-Planning

Natalie Hawkins is the founder of Notes by Natalie and a board-certified music therapist working in special education classrooms. She also works as a music therapy consultant and related service provider.  

Natalie creates resources for special education professionals and caregivers for educational and home settings to enhance, engage, and assist in daily living or therapeutic goals. She facilitates music therapy sessions working on specific Individualized Education Program goals with students with varying diagnoses.   

Website: https://www.notes-by-natalie.com/ 

Facebook: @empoweringfuturegenerations

Twitter: @notes_natalie  

Instagram: @notes_by_natalie  

Email: [email protected]  

Phone: 660-346-0571

Episode 17, Music Therapy w/ Darcy O'Daniel: https://anchor.fm/abcs-disability-planning/episodes/17-Music-Therapy-w-Darcy-ODaniel--BC-MT-e19cpc1

As an Amazon Associate, I earn commissions from qualifying purchases.

For more information about True North Disability Planning you can find us here:

Web: https://truenorthdisabilityplanning.com/

Blog - https://ejorgensenwordpresscom.wordpress.com

Podcast (ABC's of Disability Planning) - https://anchor.fm/abcs-disability-planning

Waypoints - https://waypoints.substack.com/

Facebook: @TrueNorthDisabilityPlanning

Twitter: @NeedsNavigator

Resource store (free downloads too) - https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/True-North-Disability-Planning

Tracee Garner is a best-selling Author, Speaker, Writing Coach, and Course-Creator who also happens to have a disability and uses a wheelchair. In her recent book, "Disability: An Anecdotal Field Guide for the Rest of Us, Tracee offers you the tips she remembers, stories of adversity and success, to document her personal battles with self and others in a position to grant or deny life-saving tools, equipment, and the access to freedom we all hold dear but often take for granted.

Get your copy here - https://amzn.to/3rz9uF9

Website: https://traceegarner.com/

Twitter: @teegarner

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TraceeLydiaGarner 

In this interview, we don't talk specifically about her book. Instead, we have a conversation about how parents can help their children be better advocates. We talk about how to help them (or you) get a job by focusing on the employer's bottom line first.

It's a candid discussion about what it can be like to live with a disability. Tracee does a great job of keeping it "real". Her personal experiences are hers, and should not be taken as how they will be for everyone. To me, it highlights just how different the world can be.   

As an Amazon Associate, I earn commissions from qualifying purchases.

For more information about True North Disability Planning you can find us here:

Web: https://truenorthdisabilityplanning.com/

Blog - https://ejorgensenwordpresscom.wordpress.com

Podcast (ABC's of Disability Planning) - https://anchor.fm/abcs-disability-planning

Waypoints - https://waypoints.substack.com/

Facebook: @TrueNorthDisabilityPlanning

Twitter: @NeedsNavigator

Resource store (free downloads too) - https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/True-North-Disability-Planning

Tracee Garner is a best-selling Author, Speaker, Writing Coach, and Course-Creator who also happens to have a disability and uses a wheelchair. In her recent book, "Disability: An Anecdotal Field Guide for the Rest of Us, Tracee offers you the tips she remembers, stories of adversity and success, to document her personal battles with self and others in a position to grant or deny life-saving tools, equipment, and the access to freedom we all hold dear but often take for granted.

Get your copy here - https://amzn.to/3rz9uF9

Website: https://traceegarner.com/

Twitter: @teegarner

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TraceeLydiaGarner 

In this interview, we don't talk specifically about her book. Instead, we have a conversation about how parents can help their children be better advocates. We talk about how to help them (or you) get a job by focusing on the employer's bottom line first.

It's a candid discussion about what it can be like to live with a disability. Tracee does a great job of keeping it "real". Her personal experiences are hers, and should not be taken as how they will be for everyone. To me, it highlights just how different the world can be.   

As an Amazon Associate, I earn commissions from qualifying purchases.

For more information about True North Disability Planning you can find us here:

Web: https://truenorthdisabilityplanning.com/

Blog - https://ejorgensenwordpresscom.wordpress.com

Podcast (ABC's of Disability Planning) - https://anchor.fm/abcs-disability-planning

Waypoints - https://waypoints.substack.com/

Facebook: @TrueNorthDisabilityPlanning

Twitter: @NeedsNavigator

Resource store (free downloads too) - https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/True-North-Disability-Planning

"You can't pour from an empty cup..." This is something you will hear the Founder of A Mother's Rest (AMR), Andrea Roberts, say frequently.

Their mission is "To improve the emotional & physical health of caregivers through proactive, affordable, restorative, respite opportunities.

Website: https://www.amothersrest.org/

Email: [email protected]

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/244565012656127/ (private group, request membership)

Support (donations): https://www.amothersrest.org/faq

AMR is open to all parents of all children with just about all extra needs. They differentiate between "special needs" because that is most associated with children receiving special education. Families raising children with physical, cognitive, developmental, emotional, behavioral, past abuse, and trauma-induced conditions are all welcome. There are no stated religious or family lifestyle restrictions. AMR is meant to be a safe place for all caregivers.  They expect to keep a culture of mutual caregiver support.

A Mother’s Rest will never have required activities. The first priority is rest, and that means sleeping. The format is completely freestyle. Sleep, get up, eat, and come and go as you please. They will do their best to provide you with info about local activities, but the decision to do any of those things will be entirely up to you and the other guests at the time.

They do typically schedule ONE dinner out for the group, but the rest is up to you. Each retreat will have a private Facebook group set up exclusively for those registered guests to get to know each other ahead of time and discuss the plans for the retreat.

They want you to build the weekend that will help you return to your family refreshed and energized. Don't want to get out of your pajamas? No problem. Want to shop in a store that doesn’t also sell groceries? You got it. No matter what it is, if you are thinking about it, share it with your private Facebook group so they know what to expect, and will encourage you to do it! The sooner you register for your retreat, the more time you will have to plan!

Great NonProfits Review

Already Toast (book)

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For more information about True North Disability Planning you can find us here:

Web: https://truenorthdisabilityplanning.com/

Blog - https://ejorgensenwordpresscom.wordpress.com

Podcast (ABC's of Disability Planning) - https://anchor.fm/abcs-disability-planning

Waypoints - https://waypoints.substack.com/

Facebook: @TrueNorthDisabilityPlanning

Twitter: @NeedsNavigator

Resource store (free downloads too) - https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/True-North-Disability-Planning

"You can't pour from an empty cup..." This is something you will hear the Founder of A Mother's Rest (AMR), Andrea Roberts, say frequently.

Their mission is "To improve the emotional & physical health of caregivers through proactive, affordable, restorative, respite opportunities.

Website: https://www.amothersrest.org/

Email: [email protected]

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/244565012656127/ (private group, request membership)

Support (donations): https://www.amothersrest.org/faq

AMR is open to all parents of all children with just about all extra needs. They differentiate between "special needs" because that is most associated with children receiving special education. Families raising children with physical, cognitive, developmental, emotional, behavioral, past abuse, and trauma-induced conditions are all welcome. There are no stated religious or family lifestyle restrictions. AMR is meant to be a safe place for all caregivers.  They expect to keep a culture of mutual caregiver support.

A Mother’s Rest will never have required activities. The first priority is rest, and that means sleeping. The format is completely freestyle. Sleep, get up, eat, and come and go as you please. They will do their best to provide you with info about local activities, but the decision to do any of those things will be entirely up to you and the other guests at the time.

They do typically schedule ONE dinner out for the group, but the rest is up to you. Each retreat will have a private Facebook group set up exclusively for those registered guests to get to know each other ahead of time and discuss the plans for the retreat.

They want you to build the weekend that will help you return to your family refreshed and energized. Don't want to get out of your pajamas? No problem. Want to shop in a store that doesn’t also sell groceries? You got it. No matter what it is, if you are thinking about it, share it with your private Facebook group so they know what to expect, and will encourage you to do it! The sooner you register for your retreat, the more time you will have to plan!

Great NonProfits Review

Already Toast (book)

As an Amazon Associate, I earn commissions from qualifying purchases.

For more information about True North Disability Planning you can find us here:

Web: https://truenorthdisabilityplanning.com/

Blog - https://ejorgensenwordpresscom.wordpress.com

Podcast (ABC's of Disability Planning) - https://anchor.fm/abcs-disability-planning

Waypoints - https://waypoints.substack.com/

Facebook: @TrueNorthDisabilityPlanning

Twitter: @NeedsNavigator

Resource store (free downloads too) - https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/True-North-Disability-Planning

5 Simple Tricks for Becoming a Better Ally

1. Set aside your assumptions. In order to learn, we must first accept that everyone views life through the lens of their own experiences. If we do not adequately understand the alternative techniques and skills that someone possesses, we cannot accurately gauge their capabilities.  

2. Ask before attempting to assist someone. Autonomy is as important to us as it is to you. The bottom line, make sure your help is actually helpful. 

 3. Listen & reflect. Let us communicate our needs and desires in the way that we prefer. Do your best to reflect on our chosen language regarding our characteristics. If you feel uncertain, ask.  

4. Support our fight for equality. Whether it's little things like supporting a nonprofit, or large initiatives such as advancing legislation; your support matters. Many of us subscribe to the motto, “Nothing about us without us”, but that doesn’t mean we want to fight these battles alone.  

5. Remember our humanity. We are humans first, and everything else is secondary. Please don’t hyper-focus on our perceived differences to the degree that you overlook how much we have in common. Allow us to shine as the full and complete individuals that we are.  

Contact Peaces of Me 

Website: https://peacesofme.org/

Facebook: @PeacesOfMeFoundation  

Daniel Hodges started Peaces of Me Foundation with his cousin, Kristy Rogers, to redefine what it means to have a disability, physical difference, and/or chronic illness. In this conversation, we explore what that means. I admit my discomfort in the beginning, I wasn't sure what words to use. As human beings, it can be difficult for us to acknowledge how uncomfortable someone who doesn't look or sound like us may make us feel.  This is nothing to be ashamed of, but you need to explore the "why". I'm grateful to Daniel for letting me share my feelings of discomfort.   

We talk through some heavy topics, including abortion. Neither of us makes a pro-life/pro-choice stand, rather we talk through the risks of terminating pregnancies because of a potential diagnosis. I learned about wrongful birth and wrongful life lawsuits. And I shared what I had read about those with Down Syndrome applying to be an endangered species (links to both below).  

https://www.findlaw.com/injury/medical-malpractice/wrongful-birth-and-wrongful-life-lawsuits.html

https://www.dailysignal.com/2018/11/15/children-with-down-syndrome-are-applying-to-be-on-the-endangered-species-list/ 

5 Simple Tricks for Becoming a Better Ally

1. Set aside your assumptions. In order to learn, we must first accept that everyone views life through the lens of their own experiences. If we do not adequately understand the alternative techniques and skills that someone possesses, we cannot accurately gauge their capabilities.  

2. Ask before attempting to assist someone. Autonomy is as important to us as it is to you. The bottom line, make sure your help is actually helpful. 

 3. Listen & reflect. Let us communicate our needs and desires in the way that we prefer. Do your best to reflect on our chosen language regarding our characteristics. If you feel uncertain, ask.  

4. Support our fight for equality. Whether it's little things like supporting a nonprofit, or large initiatives such as advancing legislation; your support matters. Many of us subscribe to the motto, “Nothing about us without us”, but that doesn’t mean we want to fight these battles alone.  

5. Remember our humanity. We are humans first, and everything else is secondary. Please don’t hyper-focus on our perceived differences to the degree that you overlook how much we have in common. Allow us to shine as the full and complete individuals that we are.  

Contact Peaces of Me 

Website: https://peacesofme.org/

Facebook: @PeacesOfMeFoundation  

Daniel Hodges started Peaces of Me Foundation with his cousin, Kristy Rogers, to redefine what it means to have a disability, physical difference, and/or chronic illness. In this conversation, we explore what that means. I admit my discomfort in the beginning, I wasn't sure what words to use. As human beings, it can be difficult for us to acknowledge how uncomfortable someone who doesn't look or sound like us may make us feel.  This is nothing to be ashamed of, but you need to explore the "why". I'm grateful to Daniel for letting me share my feelings of discomfort.   

We talk through some heavy topics, including abortion. Neither of us makes a pro-life/pro-choice stand, rather we talk through the risks of terminating pregnancies because of a potential diagnosis. I learned about wrongful birth and wrongful life lawsuits. And I shared what I had read about those with Down Syndrome applying to be an endangered species (links to both below).  

https://www.findlaw.com/injury/medical-malpractice/wrongful-birth-and-wrongful-life-lawsuits.html

https://www.dailysignal.com/2018/11/15/children-with-down-syndrome-are-applying-to-be-on-the-endangered-species-list/