WELCOME to Advocacy for Patients with Chronic Illness, Inc., where patients can get free information, advice and advocacy services in areas including but not limited to the following: 
How to get your own medical records.
How to get and keep health insurance.
How to get health insurance coverage for particular treatments, drugs, and/or therapies.
How to get private disability insurance coverage.
How to get Social Security Disability Income.
How to assert your rights under the Americans with Disabilities Act.
How to assert your rights under the Family and Medical Leave Act.
How to ensure that schools accommodate students with chronic illnesses.
You may request assistance by writing to attorney Jennifer C. Jaff, Esq. at patient_advocate@sbcglobal.net or by calling her at (860) 674-1370. If she can't help you, she will try to direct you to an appropriate resource.
Advocacy for Patients with Chronic Illness, Inc. will provide advocacy services not including litigation. If your claim cannot be resolved without litigation, we will attempt to refer you to an attorney in your area to bring suit on your behalf.
Advocacy for Patients with Chronic Illness, Inc. needs your help!
Advocacy for Patients with Chronic Illness, Inc. will help patients regardless of their ability to pay. However, our ability to provide services depends on available funding. We will not charge patients a fee for our services, but will accept donations.
Please mail donations to the address below:
c/o Jennifer C. Jaff
18 Timberline Drive
Farmington, CT 06032
Or donate to our organization using PayPal:
Jennifer C. Jaff is an attorney in Hartford, Connecticut who is also a patient with Crohn's Disease, a form of Inflammatory Bowel Disease.
Jennifer also participates in IBD Quilt Project, Inc. and IBD Sucks, a patient support website for patients with Inflammatory Bowel disease.
Additional helpful links will be provided as they are discovered.
Special thanks to Sandra Steur (guinnessgraphics) - webmaster extraordinaire, and John Prince (www.ibdhost.com and Growing UP IBD), the host with the most, for their help in getting this website up and running. Also, thanks to Jamie Diaferia of Infinite PR for helping to spread the news.