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Safe and Secure

Seven Steps on the Path
to a Good Life for People
with a Disability

Ontario edition

Safe and Secure helps you imagine, plan, and take action toward building a good and purposeful life, and a secure future, for your family member. Today, families must be creative and resilient in finding solutions to complex challenges—often with fewer resources and supports. Planning ahead is crucial so your family member can continue living a safe, happy, and meaningful life well into the future. Think of Safe and Secure as a guidebook for that future—one that helps your family member thrive and live a life rooted in community.

This edition of Safe and Secure is for families in Ontario, and walks through seven steps that guide you in practical planning areas while leaving space for dreams and aspirations. It gives you a framework, and answers the question many families ask: “Where do I even start?” The answer is: you start here!

 

You can work through the book over time, building a strong foundation. With a blueprint in place—financially, legally, and socially—you will feel more prepared for the future, even for the times when you cannot be there. Safe and Secure is helpful at any age or stage. Whether you are just beginning to think about planning, supporting an adult family member at home, or wondering if you should have started years ago, this book gives you a place to begin.

 

The worksheets give you the opportunity to capture both practical details and heartfelt intentions. The result is a living blueprint—flexible, collaborative, and shaped by the unique contributions of your family member. To download fillable pdf copies, go the Worksheets page and click on the Worksheets you want.

 

If you live outside of Ontario, there are other versions of Safe and Secure available—you’ll find details on the About Safe and Secure page, which we encourage you to explore.

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What our readers say

After reading the book, we did some work. We retained a lawyer to get our affairs in order. We wrote down all our memberships and accounts - with passwords! We also started a discussion about distancing ourselves as parent caregivers-managers. We just had a vacation alone for the first time in decades, leaving our daughter with support in place.

The legal section made us realize that we needed professional advice — we had used local legal advice in the past, but we discovered these lawyers are not as knowledgeable as we needed. We have since retained a lawyer with disability experience.

I was in a previous S&S Book Club. I was excited to share my learning with others and also hear from them. Even those who did not get a chance to do the homework or read the chapter still showed up and shared that they got something of value from attending.

I found the Worksheets helpful, and I passed the information that we captured along to our daughter’s brother and her Circle of Support.

I found it helpful to be part of a book club since I tend to not meet deadlines unless I am obligated to. It was good to keep me on task and work through this important book.

It was good to take Safe and Secure one chapter at a time since it allowed time for a personal, thought process of what I learned, and what we want to do in our own family.

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