Independent evaluation of year two of CPR and Nonotuck’s initial SDM pilot by Human Services Research Institute.
Visit resource: HSRI Evaluation: Year 2 of CPR Nonotuck SDM Pilot
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Supported Decision-Making and the Human Right of Legal Capacity (March 2015)
This 2015 law review article explains supported decision-making in the context of international human rights laws, including the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons With Disabilities.
Citation: Kristin Booth Glen (2015) Supported Decision-Making and the Human Right of Legal Capacity. Inclusion: March 2015, Vol. 3, No. 1, pp. 2-16
Visit resource: Supported Decision-Making and the Human Right of Legal Capacity
In Re Guardianship of Tonner – Amicus brief (January 29, 2015)
Amicus brief describing SDM as an alternative to guardianship
Authors include:
- AARP
- Quality Trust for People With Disabilities
- National Resource Center for Supported Decision-Making
- Autistic Self Advocacy Network
Texas: Supported Decision-Making Agreement (2015)
Texas’ supported decision-making agreement form. This agreement is taken from the Texas SDM statute.
Texas: Supported Decision-Making Law (2015)
Texas’ Supported Decision-Making statute. Enacted in 2015. S.B. 1881, 84th Leg., Reg. Sess. (Tex. 2015) (codified at TEX. EST. CODE ANN. §§ 1357.001-.102 (West 2017))
For additional bills in Texas related to SDM, see the National Resource Center on Supported Decision-Making Texas page.
HSRI Evaluation: Year 1 of CPR Nonotuck SDM Pilot (2015)
Independent evaluation of year one of CPR and Nonotuck’s initial SDM pilot by Human Services Research Institute.
Visit resource: HSRI Evaluation: Year 1 of CPR Nonotuck SDM Pilot
Model Legislation on SDM (2014)
Model legislation on supported decision-making. Contains SDM agreement.
Article 12 – Equal recognition before the law, United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (December 2006)
Article 12 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) contains language establishing that people with disabilities have legal capacity equal to others and that signatories have an obligation to provide support to people with disabilities required so that they can exercise that capacity.
The general website on the United Nations CRPD can be found here.
British Columbia: Representation Agreement Act (1996)
British Columbia 1996 Representation Agreement Act. First law in Canada establishing SDM.
Representation Agreement Act, R.S.B.C., 1996, c 405 (Can.).
Visit resource: British Columbia: Representation Agreement Act
Implementing Legal Capacity Under Article 12 of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: The Difficult Road From Guardianship to Supported Decision-Making
This law review article by Professor Robert D. Dinerstein discusses how supported decision-making will be defined and implemented in light of the language of Article 12 of the United Nations United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. It also provides an overview of guardianship and its alternatives.
