People with disabilities can acquire new skills and decision-making capacity throughout their lives. Ensuring more people with I/DD retain their rights to make decisions and have the support they need to make choices in their lives is one of seven priority issues BPDD focuses on in our 2019-21 state budget and policy platform.

Recommendations include:

• creating a time-limited guardianship option for young people with disabilities that gives young people the time needed for their brains to fully mature, gain life experience, and practice with decision-making, and offers an opportunity to re-assess competency
• ensuring guardians receive training on the roles, responsibilities, and duties required of guardians under Wisconsin’s law

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