M&L Special Needs Planning
Certified Financial Planning for Families with Special Requirements
Welcome to M&L Special Needs Planning!
We hope you find our website a resource to help with navigating the world of the family with special needs.
M&L Special Needs Planning is dedicated to creating simplicity with the complex journey of special needs. It is our vision to be the known resource and go-to company for special needs life plans, government benefit counseling, life insurance needs, housing and seminar presentations.
Our Mission
Our mission is to educate families in an emphatic, methodical, non-threatening way.
We do this by providing workshops and creating financial security with comprehensive special needs life plans and government benefit counseling for the individual with special needs, siblings and parents.
Contact Us to Learn More
We work with families on a national basis. Please contact us to learn more about how we can partner together.
In addition, we will present our workshops at your venue upon request.
Meet Maedi Tanham Carney
Learn how M&L Special Needs Planning got started, and how Maedi is putting her personal experience to work for other families.
Maedi Tanham Carney on Wiley Online!
Our very own Executive Director, Founder and Board Member, Maedi Tanham Carney, was recently featured in an article published on Wiley Online, entitled, “Planning for the future of a pediatric kidney transplant recipient with special needs: A parent’s perspective“. As the mother of a special needs daughter, Ellie, Maedi has a unique perspective to offer parents who are faced not only with the requirements of a child with a disabilty, but also one with critical health concerns.
Abstract
I was asked to write this article to share with medical professionals, my view as a parent with a child who has special needs and needs a transplant. It is a detailed story from a parent’s point of view on what it is like to have a child with special needs with serious medical complications and how I went about finding and managing my daughter’s care. I summarize my own personal experiences based on my years of planning for my daughter.
Discover Our Services
M&L Special Needs Planning is dedicated to creating simplicity with the complex journey of special needs. It is our vision to be the known resource and go-to company for special needs life plans, govt benefit counseling, life insurance needs, housing & more.
Certified Financial Planners
The CFP® certification is a voluntary certification; no federal or state law or regulation requires financial planners to hold CFP® certification. Find out how you can put the planning power of M&L Special Needs planning to work for your family.
Webinar Series
Upon request M&L Special Needs Planning, LLC will create a webinar series based on our workshops.
Each webinar will be available for a nominal fee.
Workshop Series
We invite you to explore our Workshop Series where you will find a myriad of information, from Navigating the Financial World of the Family with Special Needs to Understanding SSI/Medicaid & SSDI/Medicare and much more.
Housing Assistance
Creating Intentional Communities for Adults with Disabilities Through ILONOW.org
Integrated Living Opportunities (ILO)
ILO is a 501c3 nonprofit established in 2015 by a group of families under the leadership of Maedi Tanham Carney. ILO is committed to helping individuals with developmental disabilities live full active lives in the wider community. The key to achieving this goal is supporting the self-advocates in supportive and inclusive communities.
What is a Supportive and Inclusive Community?
It involves creating community “pods” (groups of self-advocates living in close proximity) and developing teams of paid and unpaid individuals to support each self-advocate. Supportive and inclusive communities ensure self-advocates maintain their skills, develop new ones and are fully integrated into their communities.
Currently, ILO has the support of over 40 participating families, and is hard at work developing community pods in Germantown, Rockville, Gaithersburg, Bethesda MD, Washington, D.C. and Virginia. If you would like to learn more about the work that ILO is doing to create independent, inclusive, community based living options in the Maryland,D.C. and Virginia areas, please contact ILO’s founder, and Executive Director, Maedi Tanham Carney, for more information. Or, visit our website at ilonow.org to learn more.
If you are interested in joining ILO and helping us expand our networks of support, please let us know!
For further reading on ILO, including our core values, vision, and our mission statement, please browse through our Integrated Living Opportunities blog archive from the Blog Category drop-down menu on the right-hand side of the website.