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A success-based approach for structuring community services, focusing on personal success through setting life goals and acquiring necessary resources. Addressing poverty, system dependency, and the importance of mentorship for change. Emphasizing the dynamic nature of personal success and the role of relationships in achieving one's dreams.
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Personal Success Model A success-based approach for structuring services and supports for community success
Assumptions • Laws are written and drive policy which drives programs • Present system needs improvement to increase efficiency and effectiveness • Services are fragmented between agencies • Families and individuals often become system-dependent… and live in or on the fringes of poverty • Services are never person-centered when focus is on eligibility requirements and a menu of options • Change requires a significant relationship and moving forward… sometimes away from roots
Some things to remember… • People have within them, hidden rules with which they were raised… regardless of where they are now… • There are cultural differences in poverty, but the focus is on economics • We neither scold nor excuse, but we teach • We must teach rules about each economic class
More things to remember… • Poverty is relative • Poverty occurs across all races • Generational and situational poverty are different and most system-dependent people are included • All social models and behavioral patterns have exceptions, including the work about poverty • Schools and service providers operate from middle class norms and values • Transition out of poverty requires people to give up, for a time, relationships for achievement
“When a person incurs a disability, the system teaches them how to use the system… how to maintain eligibility and that’s what puts people into poverty.” A person with multiple and significant disabilities
When people are forced to live their lives based on maintaining program eligibility, their thinking becomes impoverished… and for all practical purposes, they are in poverty…
The ability to be successful (change) is directly proportional to and reliant upon a number of factors other than economics and employment…
Personal success is based upon having dreams and relationships… and acquiring sufficient resources in order to realize those dreams and relationships…
Achievement and goals are middle class concepts… People in poverty are typically unaware of middle class concepts… so we have to mentor and teach them…
Change requires mentoring (teaching) anda significant relationship… We can’t change if we don’t know how to be different and change is best facilitated with a guide…
Success Dynamics • People change • People’s goals change • People’s support needs change • People’s learning needs change • Personal success is dynamic and is based on access to resources • Personal Success is a continuous succession of Discovery missions for all people
Discovery… • My job does not make me successful • I determine success for my vocation, but also for my living conditions and recreational endeavors • I set goals to obtain what I want • I acquire the resources needed to meet the goals
Mental Model • A mental model of success includes: • Developing a goal leading to a change in where I live, where I work and what I do for play – if that’s what I want • Learning about resources I need to reach my goals in those three areas (live, work, play) • Identifying the resources I have and don’t have • Learning how to obtain the resources I don’t have • Building sustainable support resources
Success Learning Person Supports Needs
Goals Lead To Success… By Obtaining Resources • Poverty and impoverishment • extent to which people are without resources • Success • extent to which people have resources • Resources • …are not resources unless they are available
Life goals must be established first… If you don’t know where you’re going… any road will take you there…
Life Goals are based upon… Where people live… Where people work… Where people play…
Life Goals Must Be Established First… Life occurs inside the community People live in the community, work in the community and play in the community Goal setting at this level is general and stated in terms of: Community living Community vocation Community leisure
What life goals do you have for where you live? • What life goals do you have for your vocation? • What life goals do you have for leisure activities?
Employment is difficult for many people with disabilities because the locus of activity is centered on getting a job
Resource goals are based on what’s needed to achieve life goals
Resource Goals • Assessment is based upon personalized life goals… just like people without apparent disabilities
Resource Goals Assessment is based upon personalized life goals… just like people without apparent disabilities Identification of needed resources is based upon personal assessment of resources in the context of life goals
Resource Goals Assessment is based upon personalized life goals… just like people without apparent disabilities Identification of needed resources is based upon personal assessment of resources in the context of life goals Acquisition of needed resources then leads to goal accomplishment… and personal success
Providers of services and supports need to focus more on teaching and helping clients learn how to acquire resources… than upon acquiring resources for the client
Where I live • Where I work • Where I play
Vocation… • What are my vocational interests? • What are my vocational goals for now and for the future? • What vocational success looks like, feels like and sounds like…
Community Living… • Where I would like to be living now • Where I would like to be living in the future • What success looks like, feels like and sounds like to the individual regarding residence
Leisure Activities • What I want to do for fun, recreation and leisure • Who I spend time with • What success looks like, feels like and sounds like to the individual regarding leisure activities
Personal Success Resources • Comprehensive • Holistic • Fit the spectrum of multidisciplinary services and supports • Accountability focused • Outcome based and considers • Life events • Grief of disabilities • Underpins research and theories • Individual dreams • Research driven practices • Relationship building • Resource building • Interdependence and self sufficiency
The Personal Success Model is based on acquisition of “resources” because it takes resources for all of us to achieve personal success
FinancialVocational EducationalPersonal Support System Cognitive and Behavioral Community Inclusion & SafetyMental and Emotional Social
Communication SkillsPersistence and MotivationLegalIntegrityMedical PhysicalNutritionalSpiritual
Assessment Personal Success Model
Individuals assess each resource to determine whether they can meet their needs for each resource to the extent needed, in order to realize their life goals…
Resources possessed are strengths and resources needed are converted to resource goals which will result in the individual meeting the resource need with or without assistance, to the greatest extent possible…
Goal Setting To Meet Resource Needs • Goals, Objectives, Tasks, SMART (GOT SMART) • Either objective or task is written following the SMART model • Not all objectives will have tasks • Measurement through SMART is constant feedback loop to measure, reassess or adjust goals
S M A R T • Specific • Measurable • Attainable • Relevant/Realistic • Time specific
When people are consumed by maintaining eligibility, little of their energy is available to focus on success… or to dream… or to have relationships…
The Personal Success Model helps people balance or rebalance their lives and helps people create or recreate dreams, relationships, goals and an orientation for success, as they define success…
