Sentence examples for guardianship program from inspiring English sources
Both are violations of the statute that governs Brooklyn's guardianship program.
"We certainly hope that the guardianship program can get funding," he added, "because it has been enormously effective".
Some advocates for the elderly and disabled had hoped that the Guardianship Project's success would prompt New York State to establish a public guardianship program.
Of the 1,103 children, 800 were adopted and 303 were in placed in the state's "subsidized guardianship" program, in which relatives of the children are awarded guardianship by the courts.
Citing cases of embezzlement by those entrusted with the affairs of elderly and disabled people, the chief justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court called on Wednesday for citizen volunteers to help weed out fraud in the state's legal guardianship program.
Barring a last-minute reprieve, it will shut down in April, leaving more than 100 people who are served by the program to be transferred to other services, and ending what some advocates viewed as a promising model for revamping the state's troubled guardianship program.
Some states have created subsidized guardianship programs, which rest on proven policy but often suffer limited federal support.Fortunately, there is momentum for change.
Some states have created guardianship programs to meet this need, often referred to as programs for the "unbefriended elderly".
Her mother works as a lawyer in the guardianship monitoring program for the Dauphin County Orphans Courtt in Harrisburg.
The volunteers in the new guardianship monitoring program will read the annual reports and flag "inconsistent or incomplete" financial information, and report potential improprieties to judges.
In the United States, a million and a half adults are under the care of guardians, either family members or professionals, who control some two hundred and seventy-three billion dollars in assets, according to an auditor for the guardianship fraud program in Palm Beach County.
