Person-Centered Planning: An Overview

P E R S O N - C E N T E R E D P L A N N I N G

TH E “RE AL”

WH AT H AV E YOU H EA R D?

Fact VE R SU S Fiction…

– LE ON AR D BE R N S TE I N

“To achieve great things, 2 things are needed;

a plan, and not quite enough time.”

P C P I S A

collection of tools and processesthat are used to

develop roadmaps through transitions, facilitate improved communication,

guide people to solutions,

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R E S U LT I N G I N A D E TA I LE D WAY T O H O NO R T H E D R E A M I N T H E M OS T P O S I T I V E A N D P OS S I B LE WAY

The community of practice that shaped all of the earliest approaches to person- centered planning functioned between 1973 and about 1986 among people from across North America who shared a

passion for understanding and teachinghow the principle of normalization might be applied to improve the quality of services to

people with developmental disabilities. As the work spread to Britain in 1979, this community of practice became transatlantic, generating cross-

national exchanges that extended available perspectives and skills and offered a ready

channel for sharing and refining approaches.

The heading person-centered planning became common by 1985. This heritage was said to

include: seeing people first rather than relating to diagnostic labels; using ordinary language and

images rather than professional jargon; actively searching for a person’s gifts and capacities in

the context of community life; and strengthening the voice of the person and those who know the

person best in accounting for their history, evaluating their present conditions in terms of

valued experiences, and defining desirable changes in their lives (Mount, 1992).

Source: http://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED456599.pdf

The approach must have the essential elements of:people committed to each other

the absence of a hierarchy among participantsattentive listeners without distraction

or agenda other than the processskilled facilitators not bound by systems limitations

3 S T E PS

• pre-meeting• PATH or MAP or

consultation• post-meeting

PAT H

M A P

DIVERSITY OF EXPRESSION

T HE M OST CR IT ICA L E LE ME NT OF A SUCCE SSFUL PL AN I S ALSO T HE MO ST D I FF I CU LT T O E MBRACE .

CIRCLE OF SUPPORT

–DW I GHT D . E I S EN H OW E R

“Plans are nothing. Planning is everything.”

(psst…“Planning” is an action word :-))

References to History from “The Origins of Person-Centered Planning”

by Connie Lyle & John O’Brien