FREE SPECIAL NEEDS PLANNING WORKBOOK
You Don’t Need One Person to Replace Everything You Do
Discover what your child’s future support team may need to carry—and how family, friends, and professionals can work together.
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No wonder this question feels impossible
You may be the caregiver, advocate, scheduler, benefits manager, recordkeeper, medical coordinator, financial provider, and future planner—all at once.
You know what helps your child feel safe. You remember which professional handles which issue. You keep track of routines, appointments, decisions, relationships, and details that may live nowhere except in your head.
So when someone asks, “Who would take over if something happened to you?” it can feel impossible to answer.
But you do not need to find one person who can become you.
A better place to start is:
What needs to be carried—and who might be the right fit to carry each part?
Inside Who Will Carry What?, you’ll learn how to:
See how many different responsibilities you currently carry.
Separate the roles instead of assigning everything to one person.
Consider personal, professional, and blended support options.
Match responsibilities with the people or professionals best suited to carry them.
Create a first draft of your child’s Future Support Team.
Identify one practical next step for your family.
The workbook includes exercises for identifying current responsibilities, evaluating role fit, broadening the circle of support, and mapping a first support team.
You do not need every answer today
A blank space does not mean you have failed.
It may simply show you where your family needs more thought, more conversation, more research, more funding, or professional guidance.
This workbook will help you move from one overwhelming question to a clearer set of roles, possibilities, and next steps.
Progress is better than perfection.
Your child’s future support team may include more than family
Some responsibilities may be a natural fit for siblings, relatives, friends, neighbors, or other people who know and love your child.
Other responsibilities may require professional knowledge, careful recordkeeping, legal authority, benefits expertise, or long-term stability.
For many families, the strongest plan includes both.
The goal is not to choose between people who care and professionals who understand the work. The goal is to build the right combination.
Start building your child’s Future Support Team
You do not need one perfect person.
You need the right people, in the right roles, with a plan behind them.
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Created by ENABLE Special Needs Planning
ENABLE Special Needs Planning helps families coordinate the vision, financial, legal, and communication pieces of planning for a loved one with special needs.
Our goal is to help families move beyond disconnected decisions and build a plan in which the people, resources, documents, and strategies work together.
Created by families, for families.
This resource is provided for educational purposes only and is not legal, financial, tax, benefits, medical, or other professional advice. Every family’s situation is different. Consult qualified professionals before making legal, financial, benefits, or caregiving decisions.