2025-02-04T10:52:33-08:00 2024-06-30 222947255 Lear & Pannepacker LLP 791 Alexander Road Princeton NJ 08540 990EZ 2023-07-01 471963520 Families Creating Communities for Adults With Special Needs Inc FAMI 2152802758 340 Haverford Road Wynnewood PA 19096 Sara Crimm Executive Dir. 2025-02-04 true true Kenneth L Siegel CPA P00181363 6094522200 2023 2025-03-06 01:10:19Z X www.familiesccanphilly.org X X 115051 X 108784 6267 0 0 0 0 115051 91647 21303 11586 124536 -9485 36307 26822 X 36307 26902 36307 26902 80 36307 26822 Families Creating Communities for Adults with Special Needs, Inc. is a not-for-profit organization supporting individuals with disabilities ages 16+ and their families. It provides information, resources and hand-on opportunities to build readiness and independence, create housing settings in the community, networking opportunities for families and individuals, and long-range planning. It employs individuals with disabilities as peer instructors, hosts multiple Workshops and provides individuals counseling and mentoring. Families CCAN serves individuals and families primarily in the 5-county Philadelphia area, but also across Pennsylvania through virtual programming. WORKSHOPSFamilies CCAN is unique in supporting families and individuals to address long-range planning and readiness for independence using a person-centered and strengths-based approach. Our most popular Peer to Peer Workshop employs peer instructors to teach other individuals with disabilities how to successfully live in their own place, with supports. Instructors are currently living in the community and provide important guidance on: How to manage and budget funds, How to organize your time, How to plan and prepare meals, How to Keep up your place. We offer this virtual 5-session Workshop 3x per year and have 6-10 enrollees (individuals with disabilities) each time. We offered a virtual Empowering Independence Workshop 2x for individuals with disabilities along with a family member. This 5-session Workshop is offered for a fee and is very popular with transition-aged youth planning for post high-school. We focus on creating a vision for independence based on an individuals strengths and interests, identifying important people for supports, identifying readiness goals & practicing steps to meet them, and making the planning ahead process more manageable. 30615 COMMUNITY PROGRAMS OFFERED FREE OF CHARGEWe continue to sponsor free Monthly Resource meetings on a virtual platform. We hosted a total of 11 meetings in FY2024 on topics such as: Busting Housing Myths, Supported Decision Making, Understanding Government Benefits, and Starting your Own Business. Average attendance is 35 families. We also offer a popular free cooking program called Families CCAN Cook. We have now hosted over 120 sessions of this virtual instructor-led cooking session designed to help individuals with disabilities, with supports, cook dinner in 1 hour. Participants join from their own kitchens and learn how to measure, cut, chop, use utensils and kitchen tools, and some nutrition basics. This program draws participants from across the state. Weekly attendance has grown to an average of 14 participants per session. 24480 ADDITIONAL SERVICES OFFERED Families CCAN provides individualized consultation services to support families and individuals through Family Navigation. Trained staff provide guidance for issues such as: establishing direction for independence, finding resources, building community connections or creating a Personal Support Network. Family Navigation services are billed on an hourly basis. 9166 NEW INITIATIVESThrough grant funding from the PA Developmental Disabilities Council Families CCAN has been working with a partner organization of self-advocates, SAU1, on a project to dismantle myths about housing for individuals with disabilities. The grant team has written a virtual presentation and created an on-line resource publication. The presentation has been given live to over 350 individuals, both virtually and in-person. Grant funds are available through June, 2025. Through grant funding from Lower Merion Township (Lower Merion, PA), Families CCAN is organizing an inclusive network of older adults and individuals with disabilities, called Lower Merion Village. This local connected web of neighbors and volunteers will bring resources, assistance, programming and volunteer opportunities to enable folks to successfully age in place. 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