Transcript 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
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Agenda
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Origins of PCP
Old and New Ways of Thinking
Distinctive Methods
A Toolbox of PCP Strategies
Examples of PCP Plans
Questions and Answers
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Person Centered
Planning
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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.
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A little background…
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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
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Old and New Ways of Thinking
* Labels
* Deficits
* Tests
* People first
* Capacities
* Getting to know
a person
* Professionals
* Person, family,
direct service
* Human services * Community
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Contrasting Ways of
Understanding James
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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
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James is…
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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 flareups directed at staff or…A person
who has little control over the
direction of his life.
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Distinctive Methods
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Personal Futures Planning
Maps
New Hats
Discovery
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Common Features
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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
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Personal Futures Planning
(Mount, 1988)
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Development of “maps”
Focus on adults
Personal profile of person’s life
Individual, family, friends, service
providers
Facilitator/Recorder
Action Plans
Ongoing planning meetings
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Basic Frameworks
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Relationship Map
Places Map
Background Map
Preferences Map
Dreams Map
Hopes and Fears
Choices, Health, Respect Maps
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MAPS (Forest & Lusthaus, 1989)
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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
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Questions ????
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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?
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New Hats (Curtis & Dezelsky, 1996)
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Communicating dreams
Dream cards
Hat cards
My Life Questions
My Favorite Day
Lifestyle and Routine Preferences
Lifestyle Map
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Discovery (Callahan & Garner,1997)
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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”
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Tools of Discovery
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Time together
Conversation
Observation – using “behaviors”
Interview
Participation in familiar routines
Participation in novel routines
Review of records
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Basic Steps of an Effective
Planning Process
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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
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Things To Think About
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“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.
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A few more things
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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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