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(17) Appropriations provided in this section are sufficient for 1 the department to contract with an organization to provide 2 educational materials, legal services, and attorney training to 3 support persons with dementia. The funding provided in this 4 subsection must be used for: 5 (a) An advance care and legal planning toolkit for persons and 6 families living with dementia, designed and made available online and 7 in print. The toolkit should include educational topics including, 8 but not limited to: 9 (i) The importance of early advance care, legal, and financial 10 planning; 11 (ii) The purpose and application of various advance care, legal, 12 and financial documents; 13 (iii) Dementia and capacity; 14 (iv) Long-term care financing considerations; 15 (v) Elder and vulnerable adult abuse and exploitation; 16 (vi) Checklists such as "legal tips for caregivers," "meeting 17 with an attorney," and "life and death planning;" 18 (vii) Standardized forms such as general durable power of 19 attorney forms and advance health care directives; and 20 (viii) A selected list of additional resources. 21 (b) Webinars about the dementia legal and advance care planning 22 toolkit and related issues and topics with subject area experts. The 23 subject area expert presenters must provide their services in-kind, 24 on a volunteer basis. 25 (c) Continuing legal education programs for attorneys to advise 26 and assist persons with dementia. The continuing education programs 27 must be offered at no cost to attorneys who make a commitment to 28 participate in the pro bono program. 29 (d) Administrative support costs to develop intake forms and 30 protocols, perform client intake, match participating attorneys with 31 eligible clients statewide, maintain records and data, and produce 32 reports as needed. 33 (18) Appropriations provided in this section are sufficient to 34 continue community alternative placement beds that prioritize the 35 transition of clients who are ready for discharge from the state 36 psychiatric hospitals, but who have additional long-term care or 37 developmental disability needs. 38 (a) Community alternative placement beds include enhanced service 39 facility beds, adult family home beds, skilled nursing facility beds, 40 p. 185 ESSB 5187.SL