The PRACTICAL Tool aims to help lawyers identify and implement decision-making options for persons with disabilities that are less restrictive than guardianship including Supported Decision-Making.
SDM Resource Library
Type: Document
Legal Capacity for All: Including Older Persons in the Shift from Adult Guardianship to Supported Decision-Making (January 2016)
Law review article discussing the role of elders in the SDM movement.
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
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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.
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Texas: Supported Decision-Making Agreement (2015)
Texas’ supported decision-making agreement form. This agreement is taken from the Texas SDM statute.
The Support Model of Legal Capacity: Fact, Fiction, or Fantasy? (January 2014)
Law review article that explores a legal framework within which to ground a support model of legal capacity and fully replace substituted decision making.
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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.
