Your partners in building sustainable systems of care—for now, and into the future.
Future Centered Care (FCC) connects neurodivergent adults and their families with teams of support, while identifying communal anchors that create belonging and purpose. We provide proactive and adaptive care planning that is person-centered and highly customized to meet the evolving needs of your family.
FCC currently serves families in the greater NYC area and Westchester County.
A Note From Our Founder, Allison Kleinman, LCSW
Since 2009, I have been dedicated to helping individuals with developmental and/or intellectual disabilities (IDD) build, rebuild, and sustain a meaningful life. Central to this mission has been understanding what quality resources currently exist and more so, what still needs to be developed and changed to adequately support and integrate a growing and aging population and their families.
Once individuals turn 21, they lose the education, programming, services, and funding they received under the IDEA. They and/or their parents/caretakers are left to navigate a complicated system of ongoing services to rebuild their child’s support network and life. Services are often fragmented and difficult to obtain, even for lifelong users who have a good understanding of the system…
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More so, over the last decade, I have seen minimal improvement in solutions for future care. As adults and their parents/caretakers age, it is necessary to develop a plan and team of support for when they are no longer able and/or around to navigate and manage their child’s care.
Adults have an array of challenges (i.e. developmental, mental health, substance abuse, behavioral) and programs and residential opportunities are not equipped to care for people with this combination of needs. The magnitude of this particular problem is only increasing as people with I/DD live longer, seek to live more independently, and self-direct their services.
As a result, parents are consumed with the emotional and administrative stress of managing it all while anxiously asking themselves, “Who will be there when I’m gone?” This is the inspiration for building FCC, a sustainable company that can proactively address this overwhelming, sleep-stealing challenge.
At FCC, we are focused on The Who. We come to this work through a lens of community building and belonging. At our core, we want to know the adult client and their family, their history and values, and work to develop a shared, collaborative and documented vision for the future. We are focused on cultivating a support network for each client and proactively coordinating care as it needs to evolve. We are here to help you build, rebuild, and sustain a good life. We serve as a concierge in matching you with the right social and recreational programs, volunteer and employment opportunities, friends, and romantic partners, and provide the support to nurture and sustain these connections. We partner with experts to support clients in maximizing and managing their state and federal benefits, as well as their self-direction budget. We are here to think about housing with you, connect you to what exists, and to plan together in creating new opportunities. When you work with FCC, you are joining a collective of other families in similar situations. You are part of a larger network of parents, adults, siblings, and professionals working toward building new opportunities to create a future of choice, community, and sustainability for adults with developmental disabilities.
"A lot of families feel like they’re doing this alone and it's really helpful to know that you're not alone. I had a great phone conversation with the outreach person from FCC and it gave me incredible peace of mind to know that there are resources out there for Henry and for us. It’s given me back my relationship with my son."
- Paula Katz