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