SW 644: Issues in Developmental Disabilities Person-Centered Planning

1. SW 644: Issues in Developmental DisabilitiesPerson-Centered Planning Lecture Presenter: Mark McManus, M.S.S.W., and Beth Mount, Ph.D.

2. Video of Mark McManus

3. Traditional Planning • Professionals conduct assessments of individuals with developmental disabilities • Assessments put together by interdisciplinary team • Fitting the person into the program / service system

4. Person-Centered Planning • Crafts lifestyle around person with disability • Takes inter-visionary look of people involved in person’s life • Often family, friends, and interested persons involved

5. Person-Centered Planning (cont.) • Creates vision for person’s future • Goal is to improve quality of life • Takes individual gifts and capacities; finds, utilizes, and crafts different aspects of community around what person wants

6. Traditional Planning vs. Person-Centered Planning • Traditional planning may provide more or unnecessary support for person • Person-centered planning is tailored around individual needs • Traditional planning fits the person into the service system • Person-centered planning crafts the system around the person

7. Traditional Planning vs. Person-Centered Planning (cont.) • Reliance on service professionals (traditional) vs. reliance on the community (person-centered) • Focus on deficits (traditional) vs. focus on capacities (person-centered) • Professionally driven (traditional) vs. family/network driven

8. Person-Centered Planning Tools • MAPS (McGill Action Planning System) • Essential Lifestyle Planning • Lifestyle Plan • Personal Futures Planning

9. Person-Centered Planning Tools - MAPS • MAPS (McGill Action Planning System) • Education focus

10. Person-Centered Planning Tools - ELP • Essential Lifestyle Planning (Small) • Negotiables vs. non-negotiables • Example: residential setting

11. Person-Centered Planning Tools – Lifestyle Plan • Lifestyle Plan (O’Brien)

12. Person-Centered Planning Tools - PFP • Personal Futures Planning (Mount) • Starts with looking at person’s background • Looks at milestones throughout person’s life • Not a social history, but parents telling story • Example: John

13. Video Clip

14. Where to Start? • Dream big • Start taking small steps toward improving relationships, using the community, and listening to individuals with intellectual disabilities

15. Working with Different Cultures • Importance of listening to people’s stories • Traditional planning as applied to an individual from a different culture or religious background

16. Relationship Map • Starts with individual in center and concentric circles • First circle – people closest to individual, e.g., parents, brothers, sisters, et al. • Next circle – important people but can do without • Outer circle - acquaintances

17. Friends Professionals Family Relationship Map Graphic Person with Disabilities & Family

18. Places in the Community • Example: Individual in nursing home

19. Preferences • Likes and dislikes • Example: Sally

20. Choices • Personal vs. substituted choices • Objective is to enhance person’s control over their own life • Example: Kathleen

21. Health of the Individual • Critical aspects involved in person’s healthcare • Healthcare may be critical for some but not for others

22. Personal Futures Planning Summary • Take different aspects and apply most meaningful parts • Extremely time-consuming and labor-intensive • Important to follow through with plans • After reviewing different profiles, need to develop action plan • May need to revise vision to continue the dream and help improve quality of life