RESOURCE GUIDE:
Supported Decision Making (SDM) helps people with intellectual and developmental disabilities make their own choices with trusted supports—rather than surrendering legal authority—so they can live with greater dignity, safety, and control.
CPCIDD provides clear, research‑based guidance, accessible tools, and resources to help individuals, families, and professionals understand California’s AB 1663 reforms, plan practical supports, and use statutory SDM agreements with confidence.
The California Policy Center for Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (CPCIDD) is a grantee of the State Council on Developmental Disabilities, Supported Decision-Making Technical Assistance Program.
Our project centers on educating professionals in the legal and financial sectors about the requirements set forth in, and codified, by the passages of AB 1663 in 2022. In addition to providing education about the reforms made to conservatorship law and the establishment of Supported Decision-Making (SDM), we are collaborating with other grantees to increase awareness, utilization, and broad adoption of Supported Decision-Making as an option to reduce reliance on conservatorship and increase autonomy and decision making for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
The CPCIDD Supported Decision Making Resource Guide is a practice‑focused collection of tools, templates, and explainers to help Californians put SDM into everyday use. Grounded in research and California’s AB 1663 reforms, the guide gathers videos, statutory templates, plain‑language brochures, checklists, and practitioner tools so that individuals, families, providers, courts, and financial institutions can find the right resource.
