Webinar:
How to Appeal an LPS Conservatorship

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Many peers with significant mental illness are placed on LPS Conservatorships. If a person loses their conservatorship hearing they can appeal the decision. This training will teach them how to prepare an action plan to appeal their hearing decision. 

*This training is presented from a peer perspective by people who have lived experience with mental health disabilities.*

Live Caption and ASL Interpreter are Available.

About the webinar:

Join us as we discuss the re-hearing process, options to appeal the judge’s decision and understanding how Third-Party Assistance can help show a person is not gravely disabled.

We will explore the following:

• The LPS Conservatorship Process
  • What is Third Party Assistance?
• Things that can be done to appeal the conservatorship hearing decision
  • What is a Rehearing Petition?
  • What is a Writ of Habeas Corpus?
• How to develop an action plan to show you are not gravely disabled?

Speakers:

Debi Davis MSW, is a person with lived experience and a long-time mental health advocate. Volunteered for 10 years with Riverside County Patient Rights Office. For the past 13 years, Ms. Davis has worked in the Peer and Self-Advocacy unit of Disability Rights California, facilitating self-advocacy groups at a state hospital and facilities in the community.

Maria Garcia’s journey with Disability Rights California started 14 years ago. First as Assistant Patients’ Rights Advocate with the California Office of Patients’ Rights. COPR advocates for the rights of patients receiving mental health treatment at state hospitals.

Maria has lived experience with mental health and while working for COPR she learned to self-advocate and advocate for others. In 2020, she joined DRC’s Peer Self-Advocacy program as Coordinator.

Her passion is learning and teaching to empower others.