Person-Centered Planning - Picture of a Life

 

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Person-Centered Planning trainings

(Prerequisite – Person-Centered Thinking)

A one-day training focusing on identification of what a person wants in his/her life when considering a transition. Through the use of graphic recording, participants will learn how to help teams discover what needs to be present in a person’s life to contribute to happiness, comfort and satisfaction while ensuring health and safety.  

Purpose:  to assist service coordinators, transition specialists or others responsible for helping people move create a picture that contains all the components that together define a person’s desired life with a balance between what is important to and what is important for that person.  

The Training is designed to help transition plan developers:

  • Look at four areas – home; meaningful and productive day; community; and professional supports – and describe what should be present in each area. 
  • Consider what is important to a person in context with what is important for them.
  • Increase the creativity of teams to capture what a person wants in life through graphic recording. 
  • Identify support needs and associated costs to deliver services. 
  • Organize information into a document that is useful in helping people design, evaluate, and select services. 
  • Help officials assess community capacity against documented need.

Interested in hosting a training at your location for general questions, or for more information, contact: Email: [email protected]