For Immediate Release
04/5/2021
Contact: David Card
202.408.9514 x122
[email protected]
Washington, DC – In May 2021 the National Guardianship Network (NGN) held a successful weeklong virtual summit around the theme of Maximizing Autonomy and Ensuring Accountability and adopted 22 recommendations. In partnership with the Syracuse University College of Law, the Summit brought together attorneys, judges, advocates, scholars, and family members to discuss the current state of the nation’s guardianship and conservatorship system and to develop recommendations for future reform.
Today, NGN released a new video that showcases the highlights of the Fourth National Guardianship Summit and the 22 recommendations to reform and improve state guardianship systems. The video also addresses the history of these national summits, the importance of the Fourth Summit and the main topics discussed during the Summit:
- Rights of Persons Subject to Guardianship
- Supported Decision-Making
- Limited Guardianship, Protective Arrangements, and Guardianship Pipelines
- Rethinking Monitoring and Addressing Abuse by Guardians
- Fiduciary Responsibilities and Tensions
- Developing a Guardianship Court Improvement Program
In addition to this video, the adopted recommendations, along with a number of papers written specifically for the Summit, will be published soon in a Symposium issue of the Syracuse Law Review. Summit documents are available from the Syracuse College of Law.
The National Disability Rights Network (NDRN) and the American Bar Association – Commission on Law and Aging led NGN’s efforts to organize the Summit. Ten other organizations joined the fourteen NGN members in sponsoring the Summit. The State Justice Institute and the Borchard Foundation Center on Law and Aging also provided funding.
# # #
