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APPENDIX C -How to Start a Guardianship Program
county or counties that your guardianship program will serve. Therefore if your county
has a population of 100,000, you can expect to have about 23 cases after your
guardianship program has been in operation for about three years. You could also expect
that the annual budget of your program would need to be about $28,750 (23 x $1,250).
Of course these are only estimates and the actual number of cases in any given county or
area may vary based on numerous factors including the percentage of elderly population
in the county or the existence of a State School or State Hospital in the county. If you
believe that your county doesn't have the population to support its own guardianship
program, you might want to consider the following options?
1. Invite an Existing Guardianship Program to Serve Clients in Your
County. Williamson County is an example of a county that adopted this
alternative. In 1998, Family Eldercare, Inc., an existing guardianship program
serving Travis County was invited to accept guardianship appointments in
Williamson County. After establishing a local task force and working with
the Court, Family Eldercare, Inc., submitted a proposal to the Guardianship
Alliance and received a grant of $15,000 to provide guardianship and money
management services in Williamson County. This process might involve
some funding or other in-kind consideration from county to the existing
guardianship program.
2. Contact the Council of Governments serving your County. Hockley
County is an.example of a county that adopted this alternative. Judge Sprowls
of Hockley County brought the need for a guardianship program before the
South Plains Council of Governments. South Plains agreed that a
guardianship program was needed for Lubbock, Hockley and Dickens
counties and submitted a proposal to the Guardianship Alliance and received a
grant of $6,650 in 1998. South Plains is starting out by establishing a money
management program through the Texas Money Management Program.
3. Contact an Existing Service Agency in your County. Tom Green County is
an example of a county that adopted this alternative. Judge Brown of Tom
Green County contacted ARC of San Angelo to develop a guardianship
program. ARC sent a proposal to the Guardianship Alliance for a
guardianship and money management program to serve a seven county area
including Tom Green County and received a grant of $15,000 in 1999.
Texoma Area Agency on Aging is another example of this method. Texoma
AAA sent a proposal for a guardianship and money management program to
serve Grayson and Fanin Counties and received a grant of $15,000 in 1999
from the Guardianship Alliance. Agencies that serve senior citizens have also
developed guardianship programs in Dallas, Tarrant and Guadalupe Counties.
C. Fiscal Status.
The Guardianship Alliance does not specifically endorse any one type of local
guardianship program. The Alliance encourages local control and encourages
communities to establish the type of local guardianship program that will work best in4
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