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Active Support: :Using Person Centered Planning Approaches

Active Support: :Using Person Centered Planning Approaches. Robin G. Greenfield, Ph.D. Center on Disabilities and Human Development University of Idaho, Boise. Agenda. Origins of PCP Old and New Ways of Thinking Distinctive Methods A Toolbox of PCP Strategies Examples of PCP Plans

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Active Support: :Using Person Centered Planning Approaches

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  1. Active Support: :Using Person Centered Planning Approaches Robin G. Greenfield, Ph.D. Center on Disabilities and Human Development University of Idaho, Boise

  2. Agenda • Origins of PCP • Old and New Ways of Thinking • Distinctive Methods • A Toolbox of PCP Strategies • Examples of PCP Plans • Questions and Answers

  3. Person Centered Planning • Person Centered Planning (PCP) is an ongoing problem solving process, involving a committed team of family members, friends, and service providers who focus on the present and future of an individual with a disability. Planning is characterized by a process that describes the capacities, interests, and opportunities of people and their communities to create social supports, employment, housing, and recreational activities.

  4. A little background… • 1973 - 1986 • Communities of practice • A family of approaches • Common characteristics – 1) people first; 2) ordinary language; 3)search for gifts/capacities; 4) strengthen the voices of people • Normalization

  5. Old and New Ways of Thinking * Labels * People first * Deficits * Capacities * Tests * Getting to know a person * Professionals * Person, family, direct service * Human services * Community

  6. Contrasting Ways of Understanding James • A person with a mental age of 4 years, 3 months or…A 25 year old man who has missed most typical experiences and has never had a real job • A person with a IQ of 30 or….A person who has been isolated his whole life

  7. James is… • A person who is severely mentally retarded or… A person who has no contacts or connections to the wider community. • A person with acute temper flare- ups directed at staff or…A person who has little control over the direction of his life.

  8. DistinctiveMethods • Personal Futures Planning • Maps • New Hats • Discovery

  9. Common Features • Driven by person/preferences • Person is an active participant • Vision based on capacities • Opportunities to expand vision • Informal and formal knowledge • Collaborative teamwork • Commitment to action • Flexible and dynamic

  10. PersonalFuturesPlanning(Mount, 1988) • Development of “maps” • Focus on adults • Personal profile of person’s life • Individual, family, friends, service providers • Facilitator/Recorder • Action Plans • Ongoing planning meetings

  11. Basic Frameworks • Relationship Map • Places Map • Background Map • Preferences Map • Dreams Map • Hopes and Fears • Choices, Health, Respect Maps

  12. MAPS (Forest & Lusthaus, 1989) • Making Action Plans formerly known as McGill Action Planning System • Focus on school inclusion • Student, family, friends, past and present teachers, other people who know the student well

  13. Questions ???? • What is the child’s history? • What is your dream for child? • What is your nightmare for child? • Who is the child? • What are the child’s strengths, gifts, and abilities? • What are the child’s needs? • What would an ideal day at school look like? How does it happen?

  14. New Hats (Curtis & Dezelsky, 1996) • Communicating dreams • Dream cards • Hat cards • My Life Questions • My Favorite Day • Lifestyle and Routine Preferences • Lifestyle Map

  15. Discovery(Callahan & Garner,1997) • Create a vocational profile • Observations, interviews • Family, school, community • Alternative to traditional evaluation • Use the interests and abilities to design “customized employment” • “ Learn by watching”

  16. Tools of Discovery • Time together • Conversation • Observation – using “behaviors” • Interview • Participation in familiar routines • Participation in novel routines • Review of records

  17. Basic Steps of an Effective Planning Process • Clear and share appreciation of the gifts/skills of the focus person • Common focus on the future • Regular brainstorming/commitment • One person is the champion of the dream • One agency/organization is committed to the plan

  18. Things To Think About • “The answers to our questions lie just outside the fences we build around our thinking” Ben Bruse • “Diseases always attack people whey are exposed to change” Herodotus 513 B.C.

  19. A few more things • People don’t resist change; they resist being changed • “The more things change, the more they stay the same.” Seymour Sarason

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