The Tennessee Developmental Disabilities Council, the Arc of Tennessee, and Disability Rights Tennessee have partnered to create the Tennessee Center for Decision-Making Support. This site includes information and tools for people with developmental disabilities and their families, including free legal forms to create formal support agreements. Visit the site here or visit https://www.tndecisionmaking.org/.
Supported Decision-Making is a tool people can use to make decisions with support from family, friends and other allies. It starts with acknowledging that people with I/DD have the right to make their own decisions. Supported Decision-Making allows people with I/DD to receive the support they need and want to understand the situations and choices
Parent to Parent USA invites you to join us along with our partners at the Burton Blatt Institute for a four part webinar series on Supported Decision making presented by Jonathan Martinis. Archives Webinar Part 1: Introduction to Supported Decision Making Webinar Part 2: Supported Decision Making in Special Education Webinar Part 3: Supported Decision Making
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Author: Lauren Agoratus Reposted from Hopeful Parents Blog with permission from the author Children with special health care needs should have a choice in what happens in their lives, especially as they become adults. There are things that family caregivers can do to help their child self-advocate and learn how to make good decisions. Background The
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NCD undertook this groundbreaking study to advance understanding and promote the rights of parents with disabilities and their children. This report provides a comprehensive review of the barriers and facilitators people with diverse disabilities—including intellectual and developmental disabilities, psychiatric disabilities, sensory disabilities, and physical disabilities—experience when they are exercising their fundamental right to create and
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For thousands of years – going back to Ancient Rome – society treated people with intellectual disabilities as if they were unable to take care of or make decisions for themselves. Today, it is still expected that someone else – usually called a guardian, but in California, a conservator – will be appointed to make
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Supported Decision-Making: Protecting Rights, Ensuring Choices What does person centered planning mean when a person might have difficulty making choices? With statistics and individual cases, Jonathan Martinis challenges his audiences to re-think how they perceive risk, protection, and capacity for persons living with disabilities. Viewers will gain an understanding of how less restrictive alternatives can
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The calendar focuses on personal medicine, a type of self-directed care that allows a person with a serious mental illness to obtain the resources they believe will best support them in achieving their recovery or treatment goals. These resources can include traditional mental health services and medications, or goods and services that focus on reducing
This paper explores how individuals with developmental and intellectual disabilities should be expected to make decisions within a liberal-democratic society, in which the state is charged with protecting citizens’ free rights to make their own decisions. A New Paradigm for Protecting Autonomy and the Right to Legal Capacity Authors: Michael Bach & Lana Kerzner Publication
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This paper discusses ways people with disabilities may take more control over their finances and lives by opening and managing an ABLE Account. In so doing, they may also develop the skills and receive the supports they need to achieve the independence, community participation, and quality of life promised by the ADA. ABLE Accounts and