Guardianship & Supportive Decision-Making Options

Understand your decision-making options by hearing directly from the people who have lived experience with them! This video series features practical tips to help people with IDD understand guardianship and other legal roles as well as interviews with individuals and their caregivers!

All videos are in English and offer English Closed Captioning and Spanish subtitles.


Responsible Guardianship: What guardianship means for you and how to make sure you are being treated fairly.

Resource Links

*Understand your rights under guardianship in Colorado: https://leg.colorado.gov/bill_files/116858/download


Supported Decision-Making & Other Roles: Understand Colorado’s Supported Decision-Making Agreement and how it can work with other legal roles in your life. SPECIAL NOTE: Please turn on closed captioning to fully receive Andrew’s story.

Resource Links
02:00 – Supported Decision-Maker Agreement Example – thinkchange.info/SDMTemplateTOOL

02:20 – 7 Decision-Making Options Guide –thinkchange.info/7DMTOOL


Undoing Guardianship: If you do not want guardianship, learn about the first steps to setting up different supports.

Resource Links

10:45 – Online Guardianship Course – thinkchange.info/GuardianTCA


Thank you to those who made this series possible!

Made Possible by our Sponsors:

Developmental Pathways, Colorado Developmental Disabilities Council, Rocky Mountain ADA, Howdy Ice Cream, The Limbaugh Law Firm, arc Thrift Stores, and The Arc of Aurora

Videography by:

Starry Eyed Creative

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