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Offers the services of a public guardian/conservator for persons in need of a surrogate decision maker. A person may be eligible for this program if the initial investigation by the Department of Human Services (DHS) finds exploitation and/or self-neglect/abuse.

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Guardianship Assistance
Conservatorship Assistance

Provides legal services in order to help with the following:

-- Elder abuse, including financial exploitation.

-- Guardianship of adults to ensure health care.

-- Nursing home and home care issues.

-- Powers of attorney and other advance directives.

-- SSI and social security denials, cessations, terminations, overpayments, and garnishments.

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Advance Medical Directives
Domestic/Family Violence Legal Services
Guardianship Assistance
Elder Law

Designed to prevent entrance into foster care and provide support with the guardianship process. Services include help to obtain guardianship, help to obtain the Child Only Grant and other entitlements and benefits, help enrolling the children in school, referrals for other services, and cash assistance to obtain guardianship and to meet the child's basic needs.

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Guardianship Assistance
Child Care Expense Assistance

Provides legal services in order to help with the following:

-- Elder abuse, including financial exploitation.

-- Guardianship of adults to ensure health care.

-- Nursing home and home care issues.

-- Powers of attorney and other advance directives.

-- SSI and social security denials, cessations, terminations, overpayments, and garnishments.

Categories

Advance Medical Directives
Domestic/Family Violence Legal Services
Guardianship Assistance
Elder Law

- Adoption: Offers relative and non-relative, second parent, stepparent, adult, and DCFS foster parent adoption services.

- Post Adoption: Families are connected with resources meant to aid in adoption preservation.

- Legal Custody: Helps to provide legal custody to caregivers, whether for a child or disabled adult.

- Guardianship: Helps to provide legal guardianship, which allows the caregiver to make decisions for the child in their care.

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Child Custody/Visitation Assistance
Guardianship Assistance
Adoption Services
Adoption Legal Services

Provides legal services in order to help with the following:

-- Elder abuse, including financial exploitation.

-- Guardianship of adults to ensure health care.

-- Nursing home and home care issues.

-- Powers of attorney and other advance directives.

-- SSI and social security denials, cessations, terminations, overpayments, and garnishments.

Categories

Advance Medical Directives
Domestic/Family Violence Legal Services
Guardianship Assistance
Elder Law

Provides legal services in order to help with the following:

-- Elder abuse, including financial exploitation.

-- Guardianship of adults to ensure health care.

-- Nursing home and home care issues.

-- Powers of attorney and other advance directives.

-- SSI and social security denials, cessations, terminations, overpayments, and garnishments.

Categories

Advance Medical Directives
Domestic/Family Violence Legal Services
Guardianship Assistance
Elder Law
Provides low-cost guardianship assistance to families or others seeking uncontested legal guardianship of adults (18 years or older) with intellectual/developmental disabilities.
Provides a neutral professional to act as guardian or/and conservator as determined by the court.

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Guardianship Assistance
Conservatorship Assistance

Assesses, counsels, and determines the need for guardianship for disabled elderly adults who are no longer able to make sound judgments on their own. Staff will coordinate with physicians and attorneys and then will secure an appropriate decision maker and testify in court as to the need of a guardian. Also offers alternative services to guardianship, such as Power of Attorneys and referrals to other agencies, and information and education about guardianship to families.