Tool for supporters, families, and providers to consider questions of competency, particularly to assess whether individual with a disability is a good candidate for supported decision-making.
Visit resource: Beyond the Binary Competence Evaluation Tool
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
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.
Article describing guardianship reform efforts in new 2017 Uniform Guardianship, Conservatorship and Other Protective Arrangements Act including provisions related to SDM.
Article describing law passed in Peru on September 4, 2018 recognizing that people with disabilities have full legal capacity and the concept of support and safeguards.
News article describing case of first older adult in D.C. who had her guardianship terminated in favor of Supported Decision-Making. Includes interviews with the decision-maker and with her attorney, Morgan Whitlach, Legal Director at the Quality Trust for Individuals with Disabilities.
Visit resource: This 87-year-old D.C. woman just made it easier for you to keep your independence
News article describing first woman in Indiana to regain decision-making rights in favor of SDM.
See also article in Indiana Lawyer.
Visit resource: 28-year-old Jamie Beck makes Indiana history as 1st to regain decision-making rights
Research article in Psychiatry regarding SDM and mental illness/mental health.
Visit resource: Supported Decision Making in Serious Mental Illness
Law review article describing process of passage of SDM legislation Texas.
Visit resource: Supported Decision-Making in the Lone-Star State
A toolkit and guide to supported decision-making for people with disabilities and their supporters.
