This program includes six 3-hour sessions to be held from 9am – 12:00pm PT on October 2, 9, 16, 23, 30 and November 6, 2024.

The program is a series of 6 remote sessions over ZOOM.

This is a valuable training for anyone who is involved in writing or participating in planning (SCs, DSPs, Program Managers, families, self-advocates)

This program will include:

• Learning and practicing 5 phases of person-centered planning including Pre-planning, Discovery, Positive Change, Outcomes and Actions, and a Support Sequence.
• Developing a one-page profile with someone as a first step in creating a person centered plan and learning how to check it for quality.
• Learning and practicing facilitation

What you will learn:

• Person-centered approaches in planning
• Ways to gather meaningful information through a series of conversations
• An overview of how to create a first one-page profile as the beginning of a person centered plan
• How to develop and write meaningful person-centered outcomes
• How to turn ideas into action steps
• Ways of organizing a plan summary and how to follow up and review progress
• Tips for facilitating the planning process

TOPICS

Module 1: Getting Started with Person Centered Planning

• Overview of the program
• Preplanning and beginning the Discovery process
• The one-page profile as a first step in creating the person-centered plan.
• Quality check for the one-page profile
• Each participant will create a first one-page profile for someone they support

Module 2: Preplanning and Discovery

• The facilitator role: the pre-planning process and conversations
• How to use and organize person centered discovery information

Module 3: Positive Change

• Learning someone’s hopes and dreams…if I could…I would
• Discovering how the person wants their life to be in the future?
• What are the changes they want to make?
• What do they want to do more of?

Module 4: The Outcome Sequence

• Seven steps in the Outcome sequence
• How to write an outcome that is person centered, meaningful, specific and measurable
• How to create action steps that have a time frame and move a person closer to achieving their good life

Module 5: The Support Sequence and Action Planning

• Five steps to get the right support for action planning

Module 6: Putting it all together

• Creating a plan summary: what needs to be included, what does it look like?
• Follow through and review-making sure the plan actually gets used
• Sample plans-how to ensure that the plan is meaningful and understandable to the person

Meet the instructors:

Andrea Schacht, Helen Sanderson Associates, andrea@helensandersonassociates.com

Andrea is a Person-Centered Thinking Mentor Trainer, certified by the Learning Community for Person Centered Practices. She served in a Service Coordinator and Manager of Services and Supports roles at Tri-Counties Regional Center for 15 years and has the added perspective of being a parent of a son with a developmental disability.

Shawna Hall, Helen Sanderson Associates, shawna@helensandersonassociates.com

Shawna shares her personal perspective as a plan facilitator and as a planner, living with a developmental disability. She is a gifted facilitator and storyteller.

Person-Centered Planning for a Good Life includes person centered concepts, principles and materials used with permission from The Learning Community for Person Centered Practices. Find out more at http://tlcpcp.com.

For more information contact kristi@helensandersonassociates.com