TRAINING RESOURCES
Webinar: Nuts & Bolts on Guardianship as Last Resort:
The Basics on When to File and How to Maximize Autonomy, offered by the National Elder Rights Training Project of the National Consumer Law Center and a grant from the Administration on Aging. Guardianship is a last resort for at-risk adults with questionable capacity. This session presents the basics on identifying less restrictive alternatives, pros and cons of limited orders, promoting participation in decision-making and more. The presenter, Erica F. Wood, is Assistant Director of the American Bar Association Commission on Law and Aging. She has been associated with the Commission since 1980, where she has worked primarily on issues concerning adult guardianship, legal services delivery, dispute resolution, health care and managed care, long-term care and access to court.
To view and listen to the recording at your own convenience, please go to: http://www.consumerlaw.org/issues/seniors_initiative/webinar.shtml, or Click on: Recording. You can also download and print a copy of the PowerPoint (Click on: Presentation). For the charts that Erica references in her presentation with links shown in the slides, please go to the ABA Commission Web site at www.abanet.org/aging.
All of the guardianship state by state charts are specifically at:http://new.abanet.org/aging/Pages/GuardianshipLawandPractice.aspx. The chart on health care default surrogate laws is at: http://new.abanet.org/aging/Pages/HealthDecisions.aspx, click on “default surrogate consent statutes.”
Webinar for Judges
The court's public website includes the recording link and power point from our adult guardianship presentation for the Webinar for Judges on April 30, 2010. Please see at http://www.nmcourts.gov, and under "What's New", Click on “Guardianship Training - . . . .” The please wait a couple of minutes for the start of the presentation. You can also go to http://www.nmcourts.gov/GuardianshipTraining.html, and Click on “WebEx Recording: Guardianship Training . . . .”
This Webinar was through the Administrative Office of the Courts (AOC), and included:
• Recent Changes to the Guardianship sections of the Uniform Probate Code (“UPC”)
• Need for Monitoring private and family guardians
• Potential of New Court Case Management System to Assist in Improved Monitoring
• Introduction to NM Office of Guardianship
The presenters were:
Gregory W. MacKenzie, Esq. , President
NM Guardianship Association (NMGA)
Hurley, Toevs, Styles, Hamblin & Panter PA
Ph: 505-888-1188
NMGA Website: http://www.nmgaresourcecenter.org
Frank Fajardo, Manager, NM DDPC Office of Guardianship
Ph: 505-476-7372,
E-mail: frank.fajardo@state.nm.us
Website: http://www.nmddpc.com/office-of-guardianship
