What the Columbus Dispatch is Saying...
- Jen Peters
- Aug 26, 2016
- 1 min read
Vulnerable now getting better help
The plight of the elderly, mentally ill and disabled who are unable to take care of themselves is heartbreaking, but until recently their fate was luck of the draw...
Social workers replacing lawyers as guardians in Franklin County
Some of Franklin County’s most-vulnerable residents, whose lives once were overseen by lawyers, now have social workers acting as their guardians.What began as a proposal by Probate Judge Robert G. Montgomery to fix a glaring problem in the county’s guardianship system became a reality in recent months with the creation of the Guardianship Service Board, the first program of its kind in Ohio...
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