Webinars

First Place Global hosts webinars with expert panels to help you stay informed on critical issues.

Beyond the Will Series

This powerful and popular webinar series demonstrates the importance of planning for loved ones with disabilities. Timely topics have explored how legal, financial, family and housing plans can combine to create clarity, reduce the potential for future conflict and support you and your loved one with disabilities. Stephanie Goodman, creator of Golden Agreements, Karen Starbowski, MassMutual financial planner, and Emily R. Taylor, Estate & Special Needs Planning attorney lead the discussion on thinking beyond documentation and focusing on planning.

Clarity Before Crisis

Golden Agreements

Life Care Planning

Special Needs Trusts

Lifelong Networks for Communities of Support (LNCS)

LNCS (pronounced “links”) represents a group of parents and family members of adults with autism and other special abilities committed to connecting and coaching families with action-oriented outcomes. Topics have ranged from financial planning to healthy relationships and sex—paving the way to independent living for adults and peace of mind for their families.

Social Media: Source of Connection or Destruction

Ilana Lowery - Arizona Regional Director, Common Sense Media

Innovative Insights: Designing a Workplace for and with Team Members with Autism

Tom D’Eri - Entrepreneur, Advocate and Author

Perspectives on Disability Advocacy & Parenting for Realistic & Collaborative Goal Setting

Emily Ladau - Disability Activist and Writer

The Road from Barriers to Belonging: Changing the Landscape for Individuals with Developmental Disabilities

Dr. Erik Carter - Cornelius Vanderbilt Professor of Special Education at Vanderbilt University

Analyzing Inequities Due to Race, Autism and/or Other Neurodiversities

Stephanie Keeney Parks, M.A. - Ph.D. Candidate at UCLA’s Department of Anthropology

Supporting Safe & Healthy Relationships

Peter Gerhardt, Ed.D. - Executive Director, EPIC School