PAUSE4Kids

Advocacy, Education, Support and Scholarships for the Special Needs Children in Our Community.

Helping Kids With Special Needs to Grow - Thursday July 02, 2009

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Our goal is to "fill the gaps" by helping to provide whatever is needed for our special needs children that is not now readilty available.

Local Links

• Ventura County Autism Society
• The Regional Center
• Ventura County SELPA
• Normal Films

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Contact Info

PO Box 7114
Thousand Oaks CA 91359

Please call our office at (805) 497-9596 and you can speak with one of our P4K parents. We do not list email addresses on this website to avoid spammers, but we would be pleased to provide you with a list of email contacts by phone.

PAUSE4kids News

Advocacy Seminar Online Soon!

We are pleased to announce that our annual 18 hour, three day advocacy seminar this year had record attendance by parents, educators, attorneys and psychologists.

Each year the demand for this course exceeds our ability to service parents and other professionals who seek this training. PAUSE4kids will place the course materials and seminar recordings online for those who were not able to attend. We anticipate that we will have our online version available for registration no later than June, 2009.

Special Needs Trusts Seminar

On Saturday, March 28, 2009, we will explore the other side of special needs law: planning and conservatorships. The speaker, Diedre Wachbrit Esq., is a nationally known expert on special needs planning and a Board-Certified Specialist. She will be taking your questions as well as answering the following:

• Conservatorships: Does your child need one? How do they work? What about after you and your child's other parent are gone?
• Medi-Cal: How does your child qualify when she is under 18? What if he's over 18?
• Supplemental Security Income: Is it worth the effort? How can you help your child manage her money? How does the government calculate how much your child receives? Can he work and still receive SSI?
• Social Security Disability Benefits: Who is eligible? Are there any downsides to accepting these benefits? How much does SSDI pay? How "disabled" does your child have to be?
• Special Needs Trusts (SNT): What is the difference between types of SNTs? Will the money go to the State when my child dies? On what can SNT money be spent? How do we set one up?
• Estate Planning for the Family: How much should our child with special needs inherit to have a good quality of life? What is a revocable living trust and how does it help? What other documents do we, as parents, need to protect ourselves and our children?

Come join other parents for a fast-paced, fun and informative day of learning. And bring your questions! Call 805 529-2782 for enrollment details

Hope to See You...

Art-A-Thon April 25,2009

11 am - 4 pm, Conejo Creek Park North (23 Fwy and Janss Rd.,behind the Library). Free Environmental Fun For the Whole Family. The popular PAUSE4kids Art-A-Thon booth, and more than 100 other vendors and exhibitors, animal shows, children's hands-on activities, Marine Tidepool, entertainment, alternative fuel vehicles and tree and plant giveaway & more

Please Join Us For....

Casino Night - October 10,2009

We have scheduled our annual Casino Night fundraiser for October 10, 2009 at the Wood Ranch Country Club. This has always been a gala event, and this year we promise to make it bigger and better than ever. Please mark your calendars for this date and stay tuned for update information shortly.

Do You Have Problems With Regional Center?

PAUSE4kids has become aware of an alarming increase of complaints by parents of special needs children about the level of service received from Regional Centers around California. We are especially concerned about reports of inconsistent policies on eligibility and levels of service between various Centers, categorical denials of service without sufficient justification, and the lowering of the criteria for vendor selection or retention among other issues.

In response to this alarming trend, PAUSE4kids would like to collect more specific information from parents of Regional Center consumers about this situation. We are looking to identify trends, and systemic failures. More importantly we are looking for authenticated facts to support efforts to bring about a political or judicial solution. Please help us collect data.

1. Please make copies of this form, and distribute it to individuals and organizations who may also provide us with information.
2. Please complete this form, with any information you might have that would pertain to systematic failures at any Regional Center.

Please mail to PO Box 7114, Thousand Oaks, CA 91359 or fax the form back to our office at (805) 426 0937. You may be contacted to discuss your report.

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This page was last updated March 16, 2009