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APPENDIX C -How to Start a Guardianship Program
1. Non-profit using Volunteers and Paid Staff. These programs have 501c3
status as non-profit organizations. Paid staff members provide guardianship
services for the more difficult cases and recruit and train volunteers to assist in
providing guardianship and money management services for other cases.
These programs are named as guardian thus allowing the programs to accept
fees for service from the estates of wards with assets. This also requires less
court involvement when volunteers leave the program. Examples of this type
of program are: Family Eldercare, Inc., Travis and Williamson Counties;
Guardianship Services, Inc., Tarrant County; and Friends for Life, McLennan
and eight other surrounding Counties (soon to expand to four other counties).
2. Non-profit using Volunteers. These programs have 501c3 status as non-
profit organizations. A paid director recruits and trains and supervises
volunteers who are individually appointed as guardians or money managers.
An example of this type of program is Senior Citizens Services of Dallas
County.
3. Non-profit using Paid Staff. These programs have 501c3 status as non-profit
organizations. The program is appointed as guardian, and paid staff members
handle multiple guardianship cases. An example of this type of program is
Lulac Project Amistad, El Paso County.
4. Private Professional Guardianship Programs. These programs operate
for-profit corporations, and the program is named as guardian. Attorneys and
social workers are usually involved in these programs and the program often
serves as guardian of the person and estate. Examples of this type of program
are: Covenant Outreach, LLC, Taylor County; Southwest Guardianship and
Estate Services, Inc., El Paso County.
5. County-Managed Programs. These programs are part of local county
governments, and county-paid social workers serve as guardians for multiple
wards. Examples of this type of program are the Harris County Guardianship
Program and the Galveston County Guardianship Program.
B. Single County or Multi-County Guardianship Programs.
Your task force should also consider whether your county has enough need for
guardianship and money management services to support its own guardianship program.
The Alliance has determined that the average cost to a guardianship program to maintain
a guardianship case for one year is about $1,250. Therefore, it takes about 20 cases to
support a full time staff member at a salary of $25,000 (20 x $1,250). To determine how
many guardianship program type cases exist in your county, the Alliance has developed a
Guardianship Program Factor based on the population of those counties with full service
guardianship programs and easy guardianship access to the court system. This
Guardianship Program Factor is .000234. You can determine the number of guardianship
cases your program can expect to maintain once it is established (after about three years)
by multiplying the Guardianship Program Factor (.000234) by the population of the3
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Guardianship Alliance of Texas. Texas Guardianship Issues Biennial Report: 2000, report, December 1, 2000; Austin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1544020/m1/51/: accessed August 15, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.