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If you’re not confused, you’re not paying attention – Tom Peters. Creating Blue Space : Fostering Innovative Support Practices Hanns Meissner. Seeking Good Form. Brian’s Story Tracks the Evolving Developmental Disabilities System.
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If you’re not confused, you’re not paying attention – Tom Peters
Creating Blue Space : Fostering Innovative Support Practices Hanns Meissner
Brian’s Story Tracks the Evolving Developmental Disabilities System The Four Primary Forms that DD Services Have Taken Over the Past 60 Years
Emerging Support Models Reflect Our Striving for the Wholeness of Our Communities
Evolutionary Voices I’m a citizen – include me
Our Beliefs About People with Disabilities Influences How a Person We Support Experiences the Community
Roles Shift Power-Over Doctor/Expert Patients to Be Cured Teacher/Instructor Consumers to Be Habilitated Person to Be Developed Coach/Facilitator Power-Shared Citizen to Be Engaged Community Resource
Our Assumptions About People with Disabilities People with Disabilities are Tragic & Vulnerable People with Disabilities are Consumers with Clinical Needs People with Disabilities are Individuals with Capacities People with Disabilities are Citizens Our Design Responses Community Resources Coordinate Care Person-Centered Supports Create Special Institutions The Outcomes that Emerge From Our Care and Support Designs Personal Care, Activity, Housing Plan of Coordinated Care, with Appropriate Levels of Service, Customer Satisfaction Individualized Supports leading to job, home & relationship Valued Roles – A Life of Distinction
Each Care/Support Model is distinguished by the way it solves nine problems • How does the culture of an agency create core beliefs that guide support practices towards inclusion? • How do our underlying beliefs and assumptions about disability serve as the foundation for how supports are organized and delivered? • What kinds of outcomes are sought within each type of support model? • How can we address the increased complexity and competing commitments that come with individualizing supports? • What kind of leadership is required? • How the roles and relationships between those who provide assistance and those who receive it change? • How assistance is delivered and experienced? • What organizational conditions facilitate the emergence and sustainability of individualized arrangements ? • How issocialinnovation generated?
Levels of Individualized Supports – Leveraging Change Through Design
Elements of Individualized Support • Choice (have options from which to choose) • Decision making (have a role in making decisions) • Control (have control over aspects of their life space and resources) • Involvement (in the settings where they spend their lives and their community)
We Are Experiencing A Mismatch Between the World’s Complexity and the Level of Our Response
Citizenship Outcomes Require the Capacity to Socially Innovate