Alaska's outsourcing of guardianship led to dysfunction and debt
Anchorage Daily News reporter Iris Samuels says the man behind a nonprofit that took the cases “bit off more than he could chew.”
Source: alaskapublic.org
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Anchorage Daily News reporter Iris Samuels says the man behind a nonprofit that took the cases “bit off more than he could chew.”
The Office of Public Advocacy, facing a staffing crisis, relied on a fledgling nonprofit to lighten its caseload. Some transferred clients lost critical benefits.
Some of Alaska’s most vulnerable residents were left ailing, indebted and at risk of losing their housing after their guardianship cases were transferred from a public agency to a fledgling nonprofit.