The money, said Achieva director Dan Stewart, will be used to help the program hire a part-time driver, to send three staff members to guardianship certification training, to update computer equipment and to develop a guardianship resource library.
Mostly, it will help keep the program alive.
"You don't know what this money means to us," Stewart told Reid officials during a ceremony Thursday at Achieva. "We need it to survive."
Stewart said his agency has identified 650 people living in Wayne County who need guardianship services for health care and assistance with their finances.
"Achieva has three goals for our program," he said. "We want all of the individuals in our guardianship program to live in a safe place, receive quality health care and support, and most of all, to be happy."
The guardianship program is built on grants, including one from the Indiana Supreme Court for $38,500 that requires support from county government for the three counties it serves.
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Interesting. Are other states concerned with the "happiness" of their wards?
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ReplyDeleteWhat a concept! Making sure guardianship clients live in a safe place!
If only the overpaid divas in charge of Virginia guardianships would deign to pay even lip service to this noble goal -- making sure clients live in a safe place!
Instead, the Commonwealth of Virginai spends hundreds of thousands of dollars on greedy, narcissistic lawyers who shamelessly enable our guardianship programs to dump their helpless clients in dangerous, filthy hellholes, and commit wanton character assassination against anyone who dares to tell the truth about this systematic abuse and neglect.
Just think how much money we could save by getting rid of these people who are well-paid to "protect" the elderly and disabled, but instead do just the opposite.
Please google Scott Schuett for the appalling details. Today, Scott Schuett walks around a free man, kvetching that he is a victim of "persecution." He belongs in prison, NOW!!!
Indiana is paving the way for other states to follow.
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