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CLOSED- SESSION IS FULL (Live) NGA Standards of Practice and Bill of Rights
Thursday, July 13, 2023 @ 1 p.m. Eastern (12 p.m. Central, 11 a.m. Mountain, 10 a.m. Pacific)
What’s new in the Standards of Practice? What rights do my clients have that I need to be respecting? Hurme, who had a leadership role in revising both the Standards and the Bill of Rights, will explain why the changes were made, what is new, and how guardians can incorporate them while making decisions.
In 2022 the NGA membership adopted updated Standards of Practice and the NGA board revised its 2000 Statement of Rights to incorporate the language of the model Bill of Rights for Adults with a Guardian. All guardians should stay abreast of the current standards so they can continue to provide excellence in guardianship practices. An important component of excellence is understanding and protecting the rights of the persons they serve.
In this session, individuals will learn the changes that have been made to the Standards of Practice and the importance of advocating for the rights of adults with a guardian.
Intended Audience: All guardians, family, public, and private. Any professional interested in learning about guardianship excellence.
The Standards of Practice and the NGA Bill of Rights may be downloaded from www.guardianship.org.
The webinar is eligible for one hour of continuing education credit from the Center for Guardianship Certification.
NOTE: A follow-up Coffee Chat will be held on August 7 @ 12 noon EST. Details will be released later.
About the Presenter: Sally Hurme
Elder law attorney Sally Hurme has spent decades advocating for enhanced guardianship practices. Most recently she was the co-lead of the national task force that developed a model bill of rights for adults with a guardian and the chair of the NGA team that updated the NGA Standards of Practice.
2023
(Recording) Guardianship Monitoring Protocols
The court’s duty to protect the well-being of an individual does not end when it appoints a guardian (or conservator). After appointment, the court has an ongoing duty to monitor the guardianship or conservatorship. With a monitoring protocol, the court can identify guardians who are struggling, guide a guardian who needs assistance in fulfilling their duties, and the court can stop a guardian from using their court appointed authority to abuse, neglect, or exploit an individual.
Participants will learn to describe an effective monitoring process, describe how to use the new monitoring protocols for the well-being reports and accountings, and name “red flags” for possible problems in a guardianship.
Intended Audience: Individuals who have responsibility for monitoring guardianships and conservatorships.
The webinar is eligible for one hour of continuing education credit from the Center for Guardianship Certification.
About the Presenter: Diane Robinson
Diane Robinson, Ph.D, is a Principal Court Research Associate with the National Center for State Courts. Since joining the NCSC in 2019, her project work has focused on guardianships and conservatorships, with projects including the Conservatorship Accountability Project, the Guardianship Judicial Response Protocol, Rapid Response Financial Monitoring, and Elder Justice Innovation Grants. She also works in data governance, including data collection, data quality, use of data, and data sharing.
(Recording) Supported Decision-Making: From Legislative Proposal to Public Policy Reform
This presentation will describe the legislative journey taken by a state governmental body to develop, pursue and implement a supported decision-making statute in Illinois. The presentation will examine the legislative background, the steps taken, and resources used to develop a legislative proposal, the components of the legislative proposal, the stakeholders engaged throughout the legislative process, the obstacles encountered along the way and implementation efforts taken to date.
Participants will learn about:
- The legislation’s background that prompted the supported decision-making proposal, the resources used to develop the proposal and the key components of the final legislative proposal.
- The engagement and mobilization of stakeholders to facilitate the proposal’s movement through the legislative process, including barriers encountered and how those barriers were addressed.
- The implementation steps taken to date, including resource development and a public education campaign.
Intended Audience: Any professional interested in learning about supported decision-making.
The webinar is eligible for one hour of continuing education credit from the Center for Guardianship Certification.
About the Presenter: Teresa Parks
Teresa Parks is Deputy Director and Human Rights Authority Director for the Illinois Guardianship and Advocacy Commission. The Commission supports programs for persons with disabilities including a state guardianship program, a disability rights investigative program, a legal advocacy service and a special education advocacy division. The Commission also pursues public policy reform often arising from encountered gaps through its programmatic work. Parks enlisted the help of several stakeholders to develop and pursue a Supported Decision-Making legislative proposal for Illinois Citizens with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities. Illinois’ Supported Decision-Making Act was passed in 2021 with an effective date of February 2022. Parks also serves on the Illinois Guardianship Association, the Center for Guardianship Certification and the Illinois Council on Developmental Disabilities.