Supported Decision Making: Protecting Rights, Ensuring Choices-EDU240424
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Study after study has shown that when older adults and people with disabilities have more control over their life and make more decisions for themselves – when they have more self-determination – they have enhanced quality of life. However, guardianship and conservatorship, when overbroad or undue, can reduce or remove people’s self-determination, which research shows can decrease their quality of life.
This session will introduce the audience to the theory, practice, and legal recognition of Supported Decision-Making (SDM), a legislatively and judicially recognized alternative to guardianship and conservatorship. When people with disabilities use SDM, they work with friends, family, and professionals so they can understand their choices and make their own decisions. Research, practice, court decisions, and legislation have recognized SDM as an alternative to guardianship and a way to enhance self-determination and quality of life.
Member - $25.00
Student - $10.00
Non-Member - $50.00
Financial hardship information is available upon request.
Program Date - Wednesday, April 24, 2024
Product ID - EDU240424
CLE Credit
CT: 2.0 CLE Credits (General)
NY: 2.0 CLE Credits (AOP)
About the Program
Study after study has shown that when older adults and people with disabilities have more control over their life and make more decisions for themselves – when they have more self-determination – they have enhanced quality of life. However, guardianship and conservatorship, when overbroad or undue, can reduce or remove people’s self-determination, which research shows can decrease their quality of life.
This session will introduce the audience to the theory, practice, and legal recognition of Supported Decision-Making (SDM), a legislatively and judicially recognized alternative to guardianship and conservatorship. When people with disabilities use SDM, they work with friends, family, and professionals so they can understand their choices and make their own decisions. Research, practice, court decisions, and legislation have recognized SDM as an alternative to guardianship and a way to enhance self-determination and quality of life.
Credit
General:2.0
Description
Presented by the CT Bar Institute
You Will Learn
- The importance of self-determination and its relationship to quality of life for older adults and people with disabilities
- How guardianship and conservatorship, when overbroad or undue, can negatively impact quality of life of older adults and people with disabilities
- How Supported Decision-Making can empower older adults and people with disabilities to make their own decisions without the need for a guardian or conservator, increase their self-determination, and enhance their quality of life
- Practical tips for ways to explore and implement Supported Decision-Making with older adults and people with disabilities
Who Should Purchase
Any attorney who wants to learn more about supported decision making.
Speakers
Stephen Byers Deborah Dorfman
Disability Rights Connecticut, Disability Rights Connecticut,
Hartford, CT Hartford, CT
Jonathan Martinis Ruth Nuss
Syracuse University, Beacon Falls
Syracuse, NY
Sammantha Nuss
Beacon Falls
The Connecticut Bar Association/CT Bar Institute is an accredited provider of New York State CLE. This program qualifies for newly admitted and experienced attorneys CLE credits.
Attorneys seeking NY CLE credit who have been admitted to the New York State Bar for two years or less must attend the live seminar for skills or ethics credit, a fully interactive videoconference, or simultaneous transmission with synchronous interactivity. Diversity, Inclusion and Elimination of Bias CLE credits are only available as non-transitional credits. For further information please see the NYCourts.gov page on CLE: http://ww2.nycourts.gov/attorneys/cle/index.shtml.
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