Informational Seminar

Financing Independent Living Options

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ILADD will present speakers on the topics of Financing Independent Living Options. Presenters will share insight on ways to fund the independent living situation that you and your self-advocates have selected. We will share information about ILADD’s Crossbridge Point community and the application process.

*REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED.

To register for this event, please go to https://iladdinc.org/registration and submit the registration form.

About our guest speakers:

ROBERT W. FECHTMAN, JD, CELA

Robert Fechtman is a lifelong resident of Indiana.  He graduated from Northwestern University with a degree in music and a major in economics, and he received his JD from Rutgers School of Law.  He also attended the University of San Diego’s Institute on International and Comparative Law at Magdalen College, Oxford University.  In 6th and 7th grade, Mr. Fechtman went away to school to sing with the American Boychoir in Princeton, New Jersey.

Mr. Fechtman focuses his practice on the problems of older and disabled persons, particularly special needs trusts, estate planning and trusts, health law, Medicaid planning, guardianships, and decedents’ estates.  He is a frequent writer and speaker on a variety of estate planning, disability, and elder law topics.  He has been certified as an elder law attorney by the National Elder Law Foundation.

He is a member of the National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys, and he is a two-time Past President of the Indiana Chapter of the National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys.  He is a member and a Past President of the Special Needs Alliance, which is a national, non-profit, invitation-only network of lawyers dedicated to disability and public benefits law.  He is also a member of the Elder Law Section and the Probate, Real Property and Trusts Section of the Indiana State Bar Association, and a member of the Indianapolis Bar Association.  Mr. Fechtman is a sustaining member of the Indiana Trial Lawyers Association.  He is currently serving on the Boards of Directors of the National Elder Law Foundation, which is the accrediting organization for elder law attorneys, and of the Indianapolis Bar Association Estate Planning and Administration Section Executive Council, and the current President of the Board of The Indianapolis Children’s Choir.

MARK OLSON

In 2007, LTO Ventures founder, president, and CEO Mark Olson became the sole parent of his then 11-year-old daughter, Lindsay, who has multiple developmental disabilities and is nonverbal. He realized that he needed to plan for Lindsay’s future without him. That plan expanded in 2019 when he remarried to a woman with a teenage daughter with multiple developmental disabilities.

Mark formed LTO Ventures in 2010 to develop live/work/play communities for adults like Lindsay with autism and related developmental disabilities.  Today, Mark’s daughters are twenty-six and seventeen, respectively, and LTO Ventures has three primary aspects to its mission:

First LTO Ventures is building our community.  Developing our innovative mixed-use neighborhood for the neurodiverse to live/work/play intentional community for adults with and without disabilities in the Hill Country of Texas that will serve adults with a range of abilities and disabilities, including adults with IDD who have greater support needs. 

He also Helps Others Build Communities by providing paid consulting and project management services to families and organizations to help them build their communities including ILADD and projects in Missouri, Texas, and Wisconsin. 

And lastly, LTO Ventures works to advocate for more options in which adults with disabilities have the human and civil rights to live, work, play, socialize, recreate, love, learn, and worship in the setting and manner of their choosing, with the help of family, friends, and caregivers. We educate and inform adults with disabilities, families, and organizations about the range of housing, employment, and social options that are and should be available to all adults with disabilities.