they're readily accessible to anybody who wants to pass them on. And sounds like we need to take this issue to our legislators. Yes. Currently, five states have supported decision-making legislation, which we'll talk some about. South Carolina just revised their guardianship statute, and it's going to be changing to be a little more strict and have to jump through some more hoops. But that will happen in 2019. But, yes, we will be trying to introduce legislation next session in our state, and we encourage you all to find out what your legislation is like and kind of do the same. Because I think that's kind of the heart of the issue, is the law making room for alternatives to guardianship. Our state court actually has a great alternatives to guardianship resource on their site. We are working to get supported decision making included in on that. But it does try to divert away from guardianship. And then, Tim, I guess I'll jump in on the institutionalization one, if you're okay with that. The question that Melissa is asking, is why is there an increase in guardianship in the mid '90s, is it related to deinstitutionalization? I don't think there's any studies to show the link with that, but that's kind of our feeling, is that everything has been headed on the right course for disability rights. We're seeing more integration, more inclusion in the classroom. None of it's going as fast as we want it to, but we are seeing everything trending in the right direction except guardianship seems to be that outlier there, and we think it is because people are being given more access to the community, and so they're keeping tighter tabs on people, which is kind of sad that that kind of backfired. >> CHARLIE WALTERS: Yeah. Funny enough, we just had someone in the training that is
they're readily accessible to anybody who wants to pass them on. And sounds like we need to take this issue to our legislators. Yes. Currently, five states have supported decision-making legislation, which we'll talk some about. South Carolina just revised their guardianship statute, and it's going to be changing to be a little more strict and have to jump through some more hoops. But that will happen in 2019. But, yes, we will be trying to introduce legislation next session in our state, and we encourage you all to find out what your legislation is like and kind of do the same. Because I think that's kind of the heart of the issue, is the law making room for alternatives to guardianship. Our state court actually has a great alternatives to guardianship resource on their site. We are working to get supported decision making included in on that. But it does try to divert away from guardianship. And then, Tim, I guess I'll jump in on the institutionalization one, if you're okay with that. The question that Melissa is asking, is why is there an increase in guardianship in the mid '90s, is it related to deinstitutionalization? I don't think there's any studies to show the link with that, but that's kind of our feeling, is that everything has been headed on the right course for disability rights. We're seeing more integration, more inclusion in the classroom. None of it's going as fast as we want it to, but we are seeing everything trending in the right direction except guardianship seems to be that outlier there, and we think it is because people are being given more access to the community, and so they're keeping tighter tabs on people, which is kind of sad that that kind of backfired. >> CHARLIE WALTERS: Yeah. Funny enough, we just had someone in the training that is
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