Proxy Parent Foundation

Special Needs Trusts throughout California

Our PLAN of California Master Pooled Trust safeguards public benefits for individuals with disabilities and also provides family-like personal support services for beneficiaries with mental illness and other brain disorders.

Proxy Parent Foundation is a unique entity. Our founders were members of NAMI-California and the Los Angeles Mental Health Association who sought to provide family-like Personal Support Services and trust administration services for their family members and others with mental illness, by acting as the “trust protector for family generated “stand-alone” third-party special needs trusts.

In 2006, Proxy Parent Foundation opened the PLAN of California Master Pooled Trust to any disability type, accommodating both first part self-settled or third-party family-generated” special needs trusts. Today, thanks to the involvement of legal, medical, social sector and financial professionals we have further expanded Proxy Parent Foundation’s capabilities to include Personal Support Services for our beneficiaries with mental illness and other brain disorders throughout California.

Our Personal Support Services are flexible and tailored to meet each beneficiary’s special needs, and include:
* Regular visits to the beneficiary
* Timely assistance with living and treatment needs, medication management, medical appointments, obtaining and maintaining government benefits and finding and maintaining suitable housing
* Encouragement toward a higher quality of life by developing and maintaining friendships, healthy activities and recreation, learning how to cook, shop, use transportation, or applying to school or seeking employment
* Outreach to the beneficiary who is homeless or involved in the criminal justice system