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Alternatives to Guardianship Webcast
Tools and Resources Page
Alternatives to Guardianship Webcast
Tools and Resources Page
Thank you for joining us for the Alternatives to Guardianship Webcast. We have included below a list of tools and resources based on the information in the presentation.
Links and Resources
PooranLaw
PooranLaw is led by a group of like-minded lawyers who have devoted the majority of their personal and professional lives to promoting inclusion, enhancing the lives of people with disabilities and working to improve the greater social good.
Microboards Ontario
A Microboard is a group of family and friends joining with a person with a disability to create a non-profit organization. Microboards Ontario is an organization that promotes and supports the developments of Microboards across Ontario.
Action Guide: Understanding Legal Capacity and Supported Decision Making
This P4P Action Guide looks at ways of supporting people to maintain control of their lives. It discusses supported-decision making and provides resources.
Guardianship: A Last Resort, Not a Default Measure
Created by PooranLaw, this information sheet provides general information on guardianship in Ontario.
The Right to Decide Project
In 2019, Community Living Ontario launched the Right to Decide Project. Partnering with the IRIS Institute and PooranLaw. The project was designed to identify situations in which the legal capacity of people who a disability were challenged and to demonstrate the ways in which Supported Decision Making can overcome these challenges. The Right to Decide site, contains many resources related to supported-decision making.
Jenny Hatch Justice Project
In 2012, Jenny Hatch, a 29 year old woman from Providence RI was forced by the courts to live in a group home despite her strong preference to live with friends who loved her and wanted to share their home with her. Jenny's story illustrates the issues with guardianship and the impact it has on the ability for people to make decisions.
PooranLaw is led by a group of like-minded lawyers who have devoted the majority of their personal and professional lives to promoting inclusion, enhancing the lives of people with disabilities and working to improve the greater social good.
Microboards Ontario
A Microboard is a group of family and friends joining with a person with a disability to create a non-profit organization. Microboards Ontario is an organization that promotes and supports the developments of Microboards across Ontario.
Action Guide: Understanding Legal Capacity and Supported Decision Making
This P4P Action Guide looks at ways of supporting people to maintain control of their lives. It discusses supported-decision making and provides resources.
Guardianship: A Last Resort, Not a Default Measure
Created by PooranLaw, this information sheet provides general information on guardianship in Ontario.
The Right to Decide Project
In 2019, Community Living Ontario launched the Right to Decide Project. Partnering with the IRIS Institute and PooranLaw. The project was designed to identify situations in which the legal capacity of people who a disability were challenged and to demonstrate the ways in which Supported Decision Making can overcome these challenges. The Right to Decide site, contains many resources related to supported-decision making.
Jenny Hatch Justice Project
In 2012, Jenny Hatch, a 29 year old woman from Providence RI was forced by the courts to live in a group home despite her strong preference to live with friends who loved her and wanted to share their home with her. Jenny's story illustrates the issues with guardianship and the impact it has on the ability for people to make decisions.
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