This program includes six 3-hour sessions to be held from 9am – 12:00pm PT on March 19, 26, April 2, 9, 16, and 23, 2025.

The program is a series of 6 remote sessions over ZOOM. 

This offering meets the qualifications for 18 hours of Continuing Education accepted by California Department of Social Services for ARF & Group Home Administrators provided by Kern Regional Center.

This is a valuable training for anyone who is involved in writing or participating in planning (SCs, DSPs, Program Managers, families, self-advocates)

This program will include:

• Learning and practicing 5 phases of person-centered planning including Pre-planning, Discovery, Positive Change, Outcomes and Actions, and a Support Sequence.
• Developing a one-page profile with someone as a first step in creating a person centered plan and learning how to check it for quality.
• Learning and practicing facilitation

What you will learn:

• Person-centered approaches in planning and tips for facilitating the planning process
• Ways to gather meaningful information through a series of intentional conversations and using person-centered skills
• An overview of how to create a first one-page profile as the beginning of a person-centered plan
• How to develop and write meaningful person-centered outcomes
• How to turn ideas into action steps that create accountability
• Ways of organizing a plan summary and how to follow up and review progress
• Ways of organizing the plan and how to follow up and review progress

TOPICS

Module 1: Getting Started with Person Centered Planning

• Program overview-why person-centered planning
• Preplanning and beginning the Discovery process
• The one-page profile as a first step in creating the person-centered plan
• Quality check for the one-page profile

Module 2: Preplanning and Discovery

• The facilitator role: the pre-planning process and conversations
• How to use and organize person centered discovery information

Module 3: Positive Change

• Learning someone’s hopes and dreams…discovering how the person wants their life to be
• What are the changes the person wants to make in their life and what do they want to do more of?
• How to gather this information so that the plan reflects what the person wants for their life

Module 4: The Outcome Sequence

• Seven steps in the for writing outcomes that are person-centered, meaningful, and measurable
• How to develop action steps that create accountability and move a person closer to achieving their good life

Module 5: The Support Sequence and Action Planning

• Five steps to get the right support for action planning (who will do what and by when?)

Module 6: Putting it all together

• Creating a plan summary: what needs to be included, what does it look like?
• Follow through and review-making sure the plan actually gets used
• Sample plans-how to ensure that the plan is meaningful and understandable to the person
• Using visuals in planning

Meet the instructors:

Andrea Schacht, Helen Sanderson Associates, andrea@helensandersonassociates.com

Andrea is a Person-Centered Thinking Mentor Trainer, certified by the Learning Community for Person Centered Practices. She has served in a Service Coordinator and Manager of Services and Supports roles at Tri-Counties Regional Center for 15 years and has the added perspective of being a parent of a son with a developmental disability.

Shawna Hall, Helen Sanderson Associates, shawna@helensandersonassociates.com

Shawna shares her personal perspective as a plan facilitator and as a planner, living with a developmental disability. She is a gifted facilitator and storyteller and  is also a Person-Centered Thinking Trainer certified by the Learning community for Person-Centered Practices.

Person-Centered Planning for a Good Life includes person centered concepts, principles and materials used with permission from The Learning Community for Person Centered Practices. Find out more at http://tlcpcp.com.

For more information contact kristi@helensandersonassociates.com