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Alternatives [hide resources]
- AAIDD 2015 SDM Pilot and NCI FINAL (PPTX version) (RTF version)
- ARC NC: Guardianship - the ARC's Life Guardianship page, describing their services and listing alternatives that should be considered.
- Beyond Guardianship - Supported Decision Making by Individuals with IDD-2012 (PDF version) (RTF version)
- BIFOCAL- June 2015 (PDF version) (RTF version)
- Decisional Capacity-toward an inclusionary approach-2013 (PDF version) (RTF version)
- DOJ Elder Justice Initiative, Free Online Training Course: "Finding the Right Fit: Decision-Making Supports and Guardianship"
- Disability Rights NC – Alternatives to Guardianship (PDF version)
- Guardianship For Your Own Good-2010 (PDF version) (RTF version)
- Health-Care Decisions Act Summary (PDF version) (RTF version)
- Health-Care Decisions Act Summary (PDF version) (RTF version)
- National Resource Center for Supported Decision-Making (website)
- NC DHHS: Guardianship and Alternatives to Guardianship - resources from the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services.
- Rethinking Alternatives to Guardianship-1995 (PDF version) (RTF version)
- Schmidt, Proxy Decision Making- A legal perspective (PDF version) (RTF version)
- Substituted Decision Making and the Americans with Disabilities Act-Salzman (PDF version) (RTF version)
- Supported Decision Making - A Viable Alternative to Guardianship (PDF version) (RTF version)
- Supported Decision Making for Persons with MI (PDF version) (RTF version)
- Tool for Exploring Decision Making Supports (PDF version) developed by the University of Missouri - Kansas City Institute for Human Development for their Charting the Life Course project
- Who_Makes_the_Decision? (PDF version) (RTF version)
Court Procedures [hide resources]
- Adult Guardianship- Narrative Readings-Tribunal 1998 (PDF version) (RTF version)
- Chapter 5- Hearings, Practice, and Procedure-John Saxon-2008 (PDF version) (RTF version)
- Chapter 8-Mediation of Adult Guardianship Cases-John Saxon-2008 (PDF version) (RTF version)
- Final Report - Subcommittee on Public Guardianship - March 2014 (PDF version) (RTF version)
- Guardian of Last Resort (PDF version) (RTF version)
- Guardianship Capacity Questionnaire (PDF version) (RTF version)
- Guardianship Monitoring-National Survey of Court Practices-2006 (PDF version) (RTF version)
- Guarding the Guardians- Karp & Wood 2007 (PDF version)
- Legislative Style and Judicial Discretion-The case of guardianship law-2012 (PDF version) (RTF version)
- NAELA Journal-fall 2014 (PDF version) (RTF version)
- NC General Statute- Chapter 35A (PDF version) (RTF version)
- Northern Nevada Adult Guardianship- A Plan for Justice-2008 (PDF version) (RTF version)
- Person-Centered Planning- Frank Johns-2012 (PDF version) (RTF version)
- Protecting Who From What, and Why, and How-Wright-2004 (PDF version) (RTF version)
- Statewide Review of Guardianships- the CA and MD Approaches (PDF version) (RTF version)
- The Future of Court-Ordered Decision-Making-Washington State (PDF version) (RTF version)
- The Side Effects of Incompetency (PDF version) (RTF version)
Data and Measurement [hide resources]
- ACUS Guardianship Study - Appendix A through I - 2014 (PDF version) (RTF version)
- Adult Guardianship Court Data and Issues-2010 (PDF version) (RTF version)
- Assessment of Guardianship Procedures in Maricopa County-2011 (PDF version) (RTF version)
- Clinical Evidence in Guardianship of Older Adults is Inadequate-Moye-2007 (PDF version) (RTF version)
- Court Statistics Project- 2008 (PDF version) (RTF version)
- Decisions to Limit Life Sustaining Treatment (PDF version) (RTF version)
- Final Report on the Examination of Ways to Improve the Public Guardianship System - DHHS October 2014 (PDF version) (RTF version)
- Guardianship Folly- Frank Johns 1997 (PDF version) (RTF version)
- Guardianship Often Recommended Over Alternatives-Heasley-2015 (DOCX version) (RTF version)
- Guardianship Program Compliance Monitoring Tool (PDF version) (RTF version)
- Guarding the Guardians- Karp & Wood 2007 (PDF version)
- Schmidt, Guardianship for vulnerable adults in North Dakota, 2013 (PDF version) (RTF version)
- SSA Representative Payee-Survey of State Guardianship Laws and Court Practices 2014 (PDF version) (RTF version)
- State-Level Adult Guardianship Data- An exploratory survey-2006 (PDF version) (RTF version)
- Texas Guardianship Study-2014 (PDF version) (RTF version)
- Texas Guardianship Data-2014 (PDF version) (RTF version)
- Texas Guardianship Study-2014 (PDF version) (RTF version)
- Trends In State Courts - 2014 - Juvenile Justice and Elder Issues (PDF version) (RTF version)
- Wards of the State- A National Study of Public Guardianship-2007(PDF version) (RTF version)
FAQs [hide resources]
- Good Guardianship Brochure Agencies Ombudsmen (PDF version) (RTF version)
- National Guardianship Association, Inc. (website)
- North Carolina Guardianship Association Facebook Page (Facebook page)
- Administrative Office of the Courts(AOC) - Understanding Guardianship (website and video)
Reports [hide resources]
- 2015 Rethinking Guardianship Report (PDF version) (RTF version)
- 2016 Rethinking Guardianship Report (PDF version) (RTF version)
- 2017 Rethinking Guardianship Report (PDF version)
- 2018-19 Rethinking Guardianship Report (PDF version)
Restoration [hide resources]
- Disability Rights NC - Restoration to Competency (PDF version)
- NC General Statutes, Chapter 35A Article 3 – Restoration to Competency (PDF version)
- NC Court restoration form ("Motion In The Cause For Restoration To Competency")(PDF version)
Self-Advocacy Tools [hide resources]
- ASAN - The Right to Make Choices (PDF version) (RTF version)
- ASAN-Part One-Introduction (RTF version)
- ASAN-Part Two-Supported Decision-Making (RTF version)
- ASAN-Part Three-What is Guardianship (RTF version)
- ASAN-Part Four-Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities (RTF version)
- ASAN-Part Five-Guardianship and Supported Decision-Making Law (PDF version) (RTF version)
- ASAN-Part Six-Glossary (RTF version)
- Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities-2006 (PDF version) (RTF version)
- Disability Services Supported Decision Making-2012 (PDF version) (RTF version)
- Hogan Presentation (PDF version) (RTF version)
- McCallion Presentation (PPTX version) (RTF version)
- Roundtable Brief on CRPD-2008 (PDF version) (RTF version)
- The Core Concepts of Disability Policy Affecting Families-Turnball-2001 (PDF version) (RTF version)
- Disability Rights NC: Guardianship - resources from Disability Rights North Carolina.
Articles [hide resources]
- Abuse Plagues System of Legal Guardians for Adults-Wall Street Journal (Oct 2015) (DOCX version) (RTF version)
- BIFOCAL Journal, ABA Commission on Law and Aging, "Spotlight on North Carolina: Rethinking Guardianship," (Vol. 40, Issue 5, May-June 2019) (web page)
- Clark County Commissioners demand answers from Guardianship Court-2015 (DOCX version) (RTF version)
- The Guardian Reporter-NYS Project Newsletter (PDF version) (RTF version)
- Uniform Guardianship Rules Could Improve Care -AARP States (PDF version) (RTF version)
WINGS [hide resources]
- BIFOCAL Journal, ABA Commission on Law and Aging, June 2015 (PDF version) (RTF version)
- Collective Impact Lecture with Stephen Orton on March 30 2015 (DOCX version) (RTF version)
- Creating and Sustaining Interdisciplinary Guardianship Committees-Dessin 2012 (PDF version) (RTF version)
- Embracing Emergence-Stanford Social Innovation Review-2013 (PDF version) (RTF version)
- Guardianship in New York- Developing an Agenda for Change-2012 (PDF version) (RTF version)
- IBM Right Servicing (PDF version) (RTF version)
- National Wingspan Implementation Session- Action Steps on Adult Guardianship Progress(PDF version) (RTF version)
- New York State- Participating Stakeholders (PDF version) (RTF version)
- NYSARC Guardianship Symposium WINGS Presentation-2013 (PDF version) (RTF version)
- Results of Informal Survey on Guardanship-Related Recommendations-2013 (PDF version) (RTF version)
- State Capacity for Collective Impact ALZ_Agenda_3-27-15_Meeting Summary (PDF version) (RTF version)
- WINGS Implementation Guide-2014 (PDF version) (RTF version)
Workgroup Meeting Notes [hide resources]
- March 12, 2015 Workgroup Meeting PowerPoint (PPTX version) (RTF version)
- April 6, 2015 Workgroup Meeting Notes (DOCX version) (RTF version)
- April 30, 2015 Workgroup Meeting Notes (DOC version) (RTF version)
- July, 2015 Rethinking Guardianship: Strengths & Weaknesses PDF (PDF version) (RTF version)
- July 23, 2015 Workgroup Meeting Notes (DOC version) Activity Notes (DOC version) (RTF version)
- October 1, 2015 Workgroup Meeting Notes (DOCX version) (RTF version)
- January 28, 2016 Workgroup Meeting Notes
- March 31, 2016 Workgroup Agenda | Meeting Notes
- May 19, 2016 Workgroup Agenda | Meeting Notes
- July 21, 2016 Workgroup Agenda | Meeting Notes
- September 29, 2016 Workgroup Agenda | Meeting Notes
- January 19, 2017 Workgroup Agenda | Meeting Notes
- March 16, 2017 Workgroup Agenda | Meeting Notes
- May 18, 2017 Workgroup Agenda | Meeting Notes
- September 7, 2017 Workgroup Agenda | Meeting Notes
- October 31, 2017 Workgroup Agenda | Meeting Notes
- February 20, 2018 Work Group Agenda | Meeting Notes
- May 22, 2018 Work Group Agenda | Meeting Notes
- August 21, 2018 Work Group Agenda | Meeting Notes
Workgroup Presentations [hide resources]
- Alternatives to Guardianship for Rethinking Guardianship Stakeholders-Dunn (PDF version) (RTF version)
- NC Guardianship_Schmidt 11_5 (PPTX version) (RTF version)
- RESTORATION AND ALTERNATIVES TO GUARDIANSHIP IN NC 2015 - Bonnie Nelson (PPTX version) (RTF version)
- Supported Decision Making - First in Families North Carolina - 10-1-15 - Debby Torres (PDF version) (RTF version)
- The Clerks-Eye Viewfor November meeting final version (PPTX version) (RTF version)
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