An article in the New York Nonprofit News reports today that Laura Negrón has been named the director of Vera's Guardianship Project, a program that courts can appoint to provide legal, social, and other support services to elderly and disabled people in New York City whom a judge has determined cannot care for themselves.

The article quotes Negrón, who oversees a staff of lawyers, social workers, and financial managers. In describing the progam's innovative work, she said, "It takes a great deal of time, planning, and energy to keep someone out of a nursing care facility, but our effort pays off in a better quality of life for extremely vulnerable people and a net savings for the state.”