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Connecting Assessments and Integrated Individualized Plans

Connecting Assessments and Integrated Individualized Plans. Derrick Platt, Ph.D. MCESA / TJST. Insure Assessments are specific to the whole youth. Look at multiple components of the youth Strengths, Needs, and Culture Discovery (SNCD ) Define where the youth is currently.

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Connecting Assessments and Integrated Individualized Plans

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  1. Connecting Assessments and Integrated Individualized Plans Derrick Platt, Ph.D. MCESA / TJST

  2. Insure Assessments are specific to the whole youth • Look at multiple components of the youth • Strengths, Needs, and Culture Discovery (SNCD) • Define where the youth is currently

  3. Assess your Collaborations & Connections • Assessing roles, strengths, and how to best serve the youth. SWOT • Know what data to share working towards an Individualized collaborative plan

  4. Assess your Collaborations & Connections, cont.

  5. Assessing is a Skill and needs to be developed over time • Annually review purpose of gathering the information and how it is being used. • Find the right assessment use multiple different types (formal, standard, custom, informal, etc.) • Review and train for validity, reliability, and accountability • Improve assessments over time http://sped510.weebly.com/class-notes.html

  6. Assessments should build into an Integrated Individualized plan • Communicate assessments that include the youth’s strength, concerns, progress • The youth should be included in the development of the plan • Focus on outcomes and change process • It should be driven by the youth not the agency

  7. The plan should focus on change http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2012/11/7143/13

  8. Integrated Individual plan should be written out and understandable to the youth and family • The plan should be easy to understand • Don’t bury them in bureaucracy • Written down to see it, multiple copies for all involved, possible online, but accessible. http://thesparkmill.com/blog/2014/3/26/goal-plan-then-action-easy-steps-to-activating-your-dead-strategic-plan

  9. Best interests case practice model: Victorian Government Department of Human Services, Melbourne, Australia http://www.dhs.vic.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0019/640306/BICPM_summary_guide-2012.pdf http://www.kidsathope.org/

  10. The plan needs to be broken down, manageable & measurable • Take the youth where they are currently and moves them to the next level • Step by step on how change happens and where they are in the change cycle • There should be projected time intervals to measure change • Build in relapse and failure and how to deal with barriers • Continuous adjustments/recalibration

  11. Continual reassessment and reevaluation of plan towards engagement • Do mini assessments/check-ins of progress daily, weekly, monthly • Make adjustments to the plan to ensure forward movement

  12. Teach and Transition assessments and plans to youth for sustainability • Sustainability can only be maintained through teaching them to revise and adjust plans • Have them practice checking themselves and setting goals (making a plan) http://eportfoliosblog.blogspot.com/

  13. Questions and Group work Derrick Platt, Ph.D. & TH derrick.platt@mcesa.maricopa.gov

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