United States – My Rights: Supported Decision Making

‘The Desire for Friendship Comes Quickly, Friendship Does Not’: An Exploration of Valued Roles & Relationships

Research to Practice in Self-Determination

What Is Self Determination and Why is it Important?

The Jenny Hatch Justice Project

Let’s Talk About Supported Decision Making

Supporting Individuals to Live Full Lives

Piloting Personhood: Reflections from the first year of a supported decision making project

Supported Decision Making In Action: Belinda’s Story

An Introduction to Supported Decision Making

Supported Decision Making – A User’s Guide

Resources to Get started with Supported Decision Making

The Power of Core Vocabulary: Life Saving!

Chris Klein – Building Relationships through the Tools of Communication

Right Relationships with Michael Kendrick

Wellsprings of Person Centred Planning

How Justin Clark’s fight for independence transformed disability rights in Canada

Supporterman vs The Substituter

American Bar Association Resolution 113

Report on Legislation by the Mental Health and Disability Law Committee

Supported Decision Making and the Human Right of Legal Capacity

How to Make a Supported Decision Making Agreement

Supported Decision Making Teams: Setting the Wheels in Motion

Guardianship Reform: Supported Decision Making and Maine’s New Probate Code

100 Ways to Use Supported Decision Making

Supported Decision Making: From Justice for Jenny to Justice for All!

Supported Decision Making From Theory to Practice: Special Education and Vocational Rehabilitation

Sample Supported Decision Making Agreements

Supported Decision Making and The Role Of Sibilings

Supported Decision Making Brainstorming Guide

Supported Decision Making: An Introduction

An introduction to Supported Decision Making and how to make your own Supported Decision Making Plan.

3 Minute Webinars: Exploring Supported Decision Making

District of Columbia Supported Decision Making Agreement

The Basics of Supported Decision Making

Exploring Supported Decision Making

Supported Decision-Making From Theory to Practice: Health Care and Life Planning

Supported Decision Making with Guardianship

Common Myths about Guardianship

‘‘The Right to Make Choices’’: The National Resource Center for Supported Decision-Making

Brad Goldman is a man with DRIVE. After living for most of the first 25 years of his life at Metheny Hospital and School in Peapack, NJ, he sought out the support of Neighbours Inc. to assist him in pursuing his vision of life as someone who had the power and authority to create life he wanted to live. Seventeen years later, Brad has lived in his own apartment, managed his own staff, and thrives as a painter, photographer, and business entrepreneur.

Supportive Decision-Making Study

Supportive Decision Making Study
House Joint Resolution 190

This report contains information about the background and context for the alternative to guardianship known as Supported Decision Making.

Self Determination And Person Centred Planning

Older people and people with disabilities can, in Michigan, be in charge of making the decisions affecting their lives. However, if they are dependent on a public system for the services and supports they need, in the past they were not given the power to make these choices. Self-determination with person-centered planning has been mandated in Michigan by MCL 330.1700(g). This may cause the most significant change in the delivery of services to individuals with disabilities in many years. This is a process designed to shift power in negotiating the mental health system from the professional to the individual receiving services.

Supported Decision Making: Protecting Rights, Ensuring Choices

This article introduces Supported Decision-Making, an alternative to guardianship where people make their own decisions, without a guardian, while receiving the help they need and want to do so.
Supported Decision-Making protects and enhances the “principal prerogative all people have to make their own decisions and direct their own lives to the maximum of their abilities” and can improve life outcomes like health, independence, safety, and employment.