A video describing people with disabilities making health care choices.
Visit resource: Making Healthcare Choices: Perspectives of People with Disabilities
When Do I Want Support? (2019)
This worksheet helps individuals using SDM think through: what decisions they want assistance with, who they want assistance from, and what type of assistance they want.
Brainstorming Guide to Supported Decision-Making (2019)
This is a worksheet and tool for self advocates and supporters to brainstorm the type of support an individual may need in various areas of his or her life.
Visit resource: Brainstorming Guide to Supported Decision-Making
How to Make a Supported Decision-Making Agreement (2019)
This guide to thinking about supported decision-making provides worksheets and prompt questions to help you consider whether SDM will work for you.
Visit resource: How to Make a Supported Decision-Making Agreement
Massachusetts ABLE Program Website
This is the website for Massachusetts’s ABLE Savings program, the Attainable Savings Plan. An overview of the Massachusetts ABLE program is also available here.
Delaware: Supported Decision Making Your Support, My Decisions (April 2016)
Stories from Delaware about people using supported decision-making.
Visit resource: Delaware: Supported Decision Making Your Support, My Decisions
South Carolina – Supported Decision Making Manuals: for Individuals and Families, Service Providers, and Attorneys (March 2019)
South Carolina Supported Decision-Making Project’s resource page contains a number of useful materials including:
- Supported Decision Making Agreement Template
- Supported Decision Making Manual for Individuals and Families
- Supported Decision Making Manual for Service Providers
- Supported Decision Making Manual for Attorneys
- Videos from people in South Carolina using SDM
- Links to additional resources
Open Future Learning SDM training module (2017)
Trailer for training module on Supported Decision-Making from Open Future Learning. Includes presentations from supporter Malia Carlotto who participated in CPR’s first pilot supporting her son Cory, and CPR staff Michael Kendrick and Bob Fleischner. Find Supported Decision-Making module available for purchase on this page.
Restoration of Rights in Adult Guardianship Research & Recommendations
Report from the American Bar Association Commission on Law and Aging (ABA Commission) on restoration of rights in guardianship. Report includes legal and empirical research involving collecting the first multi-state data on restoration.
Visit resource: Restoration of Rights in Adult Guardianship Research & Recommendations
Education Decision-Making & Transfer of Rights (December 2018)
Information for Washington DC on Special Education and SDM. Contains link to model SDM agreement form.
Visit resource: Education Decision-Making & Transfer of Rights
