A PCP is a Life Plan for ME!!

1. A PCP is a Life Plan for ME!!

2. How to use this training This training has three parts that work together, kind of like a sandwich. • Slides (the bread) include basic information • Notes (the meat or cheese filling) include extra information • Forms (the lettuce, tomato, and other goodies) can be printed and used as work sheets. (There will be link to the forms on the slide the form goes with)

3. A PCP is a Life Plan for ME!! • I can now plan what I want to learn and do • I get to choose!!! • I can tell the agency what I want/need them to do to help me. • When I finish the PCP, everyone will agree on the plan for ME!

4. What is a PCP? • A PCP is a person centered plan, it is a plan for me. • I will have at least one a year, but I can ask for another one at any time. • The plan is how my services will make my goals happen.

5. Why do I need a PCP? • What I have for services depends on my needs and goals. • My big goals can help me with • Getting a job • Making Friends • Living healthier • Feeling safer • Getting involved in my community • Making choices and having control • Most importantly it’s a life plan for me!

6. What’s in it for me? • I can set big goals that I want to do • Everyone* can help me get there! • A goal is something I want to do or learn, it is written in my words, and I can understand it. • I might get help on my goal from family, friends, or someone in my community.

7. Service Options My caseworker can tell me what options I qualify for. It may be one, or all of the services below. • Community Supports • Home Supports • Career and Employment Supports • Technology Supports

8. Community Supports Community Supports (day program) can: • help me find places in my community to join • explore ways get out and meet new people • volunteer in a place that interests me • learn to do something new • teach me skills to get around my community • work with me to be safe and healthy

9. Employment Supports Employment • I can explore what I want to do or am interested in • I can get help with understanding my benefits at work • I can work part time or full time, I can make minimum wage (7.50 per hour) or more • I can own my own business • I can be a boss (employer) Click here for the form on employment support options

10. Home Supports • Home supports come to where I live, and call home. • Home supports can: • Help me learn things like cooking, how to do the laundry, keeping a schedule, things that will help me be more independent. • Help me learn how to take care of myself with things like eating healthy and doing activities that get me moving

11. My Plan. My Services. • Services are about helping me live my life, not about what my provider agency needs, or what is convenient for them. • I don’t have to make up hours if I take a day or two off from community supports • Staff need to listen to me and help me figure out how to go somewhere or do something when I live with other people who do not want to do the same things. • I can ask my staff to help me figure out how to do things if they are happening at the same time as my ADLs

12. Remember! • A goal is something I want to do or learn, it is written in my words, and I can understand it. • Daily activities like brushing my teeth or showering are not goals!

13. Choice + Control = Responsibility • It is my responsibility to make sure understand and agree to my plan. • I can think about how my plan will help me to learn the skills that will help me to be more independent and find supports in the community. • I can get help in accomplishing my goals, but they are my goals to follow through with.

14. Examples of goals • I will explore my new neighborhood by visiting the places I can walk to. • I will plan a BBQ and invite my family and friends for the fourth of July. • I will find opportunities for volunteering at my library or day care center. • I will choose what I want to do on holidays • I will get more skills at work so I can earn a raise. Click here for the form about goals

15. About me! • Who lives with me? • What do I own or control I would not want to be without? • What are the activities I do regularly? • Where do I go? How often do I go there?

16. Who do I want in my life? Relationships • Think about…… • What am I doing when I am happy? • who am I with? • where am I? • Who do I like and want to spend my time with? Click here for a form to help me learn who the people in my circle are.

17. What do I want? Choice and Control What would give me more choices and more control over my life? Do I want to: • Do my own banking, budgeting, cooking? • Be healthier, eat better, to move more? • Know more about getting around my community? • A job? • What would it look like where I live? Happy, Health, Well project resources have lots of good information on eating well and being active, click here: http://muskie.usm.maine.edu/cfl/HHW/materials.html

18. What do I want? Community • Are there things I want to do IN the community? Are there things I want to do FOR my community? • Are there clubs, organizations or community activities I might want to join? • Would I like to be a member of Speaking Up For Us? • Is there a class I might want to take? • Click here for a form with a list of community organizations

19. What do I want? Health and Safety • What do I need to feel good? • What do I need to be healthy? • What I you need to be safe? • Do I feel safe: • In my community? • In my home? • with the people who are around me? • If not what would make me feel safer?

20. Timeline • Part 1: I will choose where my meeting is, who comes to it, and what we talk about with my caseworker. • Part 2: I will meet with community, home, and work supports staff to talk about my goals and the services I want • Part 3: I will meet with my case manager and look over my goals and services decide what works for me. • Part 4: THE MEETING!

21. Who helps with what? • My Caseworker will: • Plan for my meeting at a date, time, place, etc. that works for me. • Talk to me about choice • Check in with me after my meeting • The Agency will: • Agree to support me to meet my goals me with • Provide the services I choose • Family and Friends can support me in planning • Professionals: OTs, PTs, Drs., or Advocate can help with advice and support.

22. Can I choose who will be there? YES!!!! I am the most important part. Who has to be there? • My guardian, if I have one • My case manager • My correspondent, if I have one I may choose to have: • My, family and/or friends • Agency staff, community, work, or home supports. • Professionals – OT, PT, Dr • Having an advocate there is MY choice, I can invite one!

23. What will happen at the meeting? • What has to happen at the meeting • I will know what time it starts and stops • The agenda will be followed • Everyone will listen to me • My goals and services will be talked about in a positive light • People’s opinions will be respected • Tough conversations will be handled with respect • There are conversations that I will need to have, including talking about employment • What you can choose not to include : • If there are things I do not want to talk about in a group of people, this can be done at another time, and I can choose to be there or not as I want.

24. I can ask people to slow down • I can ask people to explain in terms you understand • Who am I comfortable with? I can limit how many people are at the meeting! • Goals can be short term. • I can ask my Case manager if I want to change a goal, I don’t have to wait until my next annual plan. • People can offer other options for me to think about but it is not their job to talk me out of something I want because it is more convenient for them

25. Who can help if you don’t agree? • If I don’t agree, I need to speak up or nothing will change! • Here is who I can speak up to: • Staff • Case manager • Advocate • Think about filing a Grievance, your case manager has to help you

26. Resources • Here is a link to the PCP Training Manual on the state’s DHHS website. • http://www.maine.gov/dhhs/oads/disability/ds/pcp-action-plan/PDF/PCP%20Manual7-31-13.pdf

27. Resources • 24 Stone Street, Ste 204, Augusta, ME 04330 V/TTY:   207-626-2774 Toll Free V/TTY:  1-800-452-1948 • The Disability Rights Center (DRC) is Maine's protection and advocacy agency for people with disabilities. It is a non-profit agency independent of state and federal government. • Here is a link where you can find out who the advocate for your area is: http://drcme.org/DSA_Patient_Advocates.html

28. SUFU would like to say thank you for the technical support to: • SUFU member Paul Picard • DHHS, Office of Aging and Disability Services • Disability Rights Center