Statement of Priorities

PRIORITY EIGHT:

Monitor the state’s proposals for Medicaid Reform, including the proposal for a Global Consumer Choice Compact Waiver.

PRIORITY NINE:

Subject to the FACTORS FOR DETERMINING ACCEPTANCE OF CASES (footnoted on
final page*), provide individual representation to clients in the following areas:

A. GUARDIANSHIP AND INFORMED CONSENT

1. Represent persons contesting a guardianship, a petition for guardianship, the scope of a guardianship, or the appointment of a particular person as a guardian.
2. Represent persons alleged to be unable to give informed consent prior to medical treatment or procedures.

B. CHILDREN'S MENTAL HEALTH AND EDUCATION

• 1. Represent children and youth who are detained inappropriately in hospitals or other restrictive environments or who are at imminent risk of such a placement due to a lack of appropriate community-based behavioral/mental health services.
• 2. Represent twenty (20) students who have been denied a Free Appropriate Public Education (FAPE).
  

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