Let Your Worries Go

Northwestern Mutual and I want to help you let your worries go. Whether you worry about financial security, natural disasters, illness or hunger, learn how we can help.

To help combat these worries, The Northwestern Mutual Foundation has earmarked $1 million for Habitat for Humanity - New Orleans, Susan G. Komen for the Cure, America’s Second Harvest and the YMCA. View www.letyourworriesgo.com and vote for how the funds will be distributed.

Encourage your friends and family to vote too!

An Expert in Special Needs Planning:

Stephen Ehrens, CPA, CLTC  As a Financial Representative, Steve has been providing financial services for families of individuals with special needs for over 7 years. Steve understands that families with special needs are faced with many concerns and challenges regarding the long term care of their loved ones and is dedicated to working with you to identify your goals and educate you on your options. Through his own very personal experience, Steve brings an added dimension and sensitivity to issues facing families of special needs children.

To learn more about special needs families, please click here.

Special Needs Workshops
One of Steve’s passions is to address special needs groups in Connecticut and New York to empower parents and caregivers on the value of developing a special needs trust life care plan. He has conducted over 20 workshops in the past two years. Please contact Steve for further information on this year’s workshops.

• U.S. Department of Education, Office of Special Ed and Rehabilitative Services
• Connecticut Birth to Three Program
• Connecticut Council on Developmental Disabilities
• Connecticut State Department of Education – Special Education Link 
• SERC – State Education Resource Guide 
• Autism Spectrum Resource Center
• Connecticut Association for Children and Adults with Learning Disabilities
• Connecticut Down Syndrome Congress
• Connecticut Parent Advocacy Center (CPAC)
• SEPTA (Special Education PTA’S) 
• Special Olympics Connecticut

Community Involvement
Part of Steve Ehrens involvement in the community is working with special education PTA’s, private schools, and other special needs organizations in planning special needs trust workshops. Steve always invites a highly respected estates and trust attorney to accompany him, in order to provide parents with the best legal advice when making future decisions for their special needs child. In Steve´s endeavor to enlighten parents, he has received very positive feedback, including the following note from the Westchester Exceptional School, North Salem, New York:

Dear Steve: May 14, 2007

We are deeply appreciative of the outstanding presentation that you and Adrienne (attorney) made at our school on May 8th.
We have received enthusiastic expressions of gratitude from those parents who attended. The information that you provided and the manner in which you communicated…was sensitively validated by your having a daughter with a developmental disability. We look forward to your return visit in 2009.
Sincerely,
W. Carlton Smith