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Guardianship

Achieva Resources advocates for children and adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities. We provide guardianship services to individuals who are not able to make medical or advocacy decisions for themselves.  Currently, Achieva Resources has a professional rapport with the Wayne County Courthouse and the Wayne County Judges. Through this program with the Wayne County Judges, Achieva Resources has been able to help over 100 individuals in need of medical, advocacy, health and safety services and guardianship's.

Achieva Resources will work hard with and for anyone in need of a guardian for medical, advocacy, health and safety services. For more information, please contact dans@achievaresources.org.

Achieva Resources is also a member of Indiana Adult Guardianship Services Task Force (IAGS). 

IAGS Project Mission & Goals

"I shall pass through this world but once. Any good thing therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any human being, let me do it now. Let me not defer it or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again." 
~Etienne de Grellet

The Indiana Adult Guardianship Services Project (IAGS Project) began in 2008. 

The Mission of the IAGS Project is to improve the quality and availability of adult guardianship services for Hoosiers who are age 18 and older and have been determined to be incapable of handling their own personal and financial affairs.

The Purpose of the IAGS Project is to build a framework of community-based adult guardianship services projects / programs across the state.

The Core Principles that guide the planning and activities of the Project include:
  • A commitment to serve incapacitated adults through guardianship services that are least restrictive and include specialized services for seniors and persons with disabilities and mental illness
  • A commitment to the National Guardianship Association Standards of Practice and Code of Ethics
  • A commitment to establish inclusive community-based and statewide networks of courts, attorneys, service providers, guardianship professionals and volunteers, and other advocates who are engaged as stakeholders in an effort to develop effective guardianship services in Indiana
  • A commitment to utilizing the services of attorneys, National Certified Guardian professionals and trained and supervised community volunteers as guardians
  • A commitment to advocacy on behalf of incapacitated adults and the programs that provide guardianship services in Indiana
The Goals that drive the IAGS Project work and activities are to:
  1. Support the continued development and implementation of two model Northwest Indiana adult guardianship services initiatives that incorporate the National Guardianship Association Standards and Ethics and use trained and supervised community volunteers as guardians. The two models are Northwest Indiana Adult Guardianship Services, Inc. and the Volunteer Advocates for Seniors Program of the SSFHS Saint Margaret Mercy Hospital.
  2. Organize and convene community-based key stakeholders groups to facilitate the strategic planning, development and implementation of adult guardianship services projects / programs at targeted county pilot project sites.
  3. Conduct an academic research / review of national and Indiana guardianship demographics, data, statutes, funding sources and the recommended best practices for guardianship services, standards, regulation and certification.
  4. Convene a multidisciplinary Indiana Adult Guardianship Services Issues & Needs State Task Force to support the development and provision of adult guardianship services across the state. 
  5. Provide educational opportunities (Northwest Indiana Guardianship Services Symposium and the Indiana State Symposium: Adult Guardianship Issues and Needs) on adult guardianship issues, needs and practices.
  6. Increase national awareness of the IAGS Project and facilitate the participation of Indiana judges, attorneys and guardianship professionals and volunteers at the national level. 
For more information regarding Indiana Guardianship Services, please visit The Arc of Indiana's website at www.arcind.org

REID Health Community
​BENEFIT GRANT

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Achieva wishes to thank the Reid Health Services Community Benefit Grant that has allowed us to expand our guardianship program to serve 61 individuals and allow our 3 full time staff members the opportunity to obtain their continuing education credits at the National Guardianship Association Conference.

Adult Guardianship

 "Adult Guardianship in Indiana" covers the following topics:  What is Adult Guardianship, Types of Guardianship, The Guardianship Process, Who Should be a Guardian, Requirements for Guardianship, Duties of a Guardian, Types of Guardianship, Ending a Guardianship. Presented by the St. Joseph County Guardianship Consortium.  Funding provided by the Indiana Adult Guardianship Services Project.  To learn more, visit: www.arcind.org, click on "Help for Families," then click on "Guardianship.
Achieva Resources Corporation, Inc., P.O. Box 1252, 800 Mendleson Drive, Richmond, Indiana  47375
Phone: 765-966-0502    Fax: 765-962-3179