Using a one-page profile

A one-page profile forms the foundation of personalized services as it determines how the person wants to be supported. However, it’s only useful if people use it! Here are some useful guidelines:

Identify the purpose

A one-page profile can be a general introduction to the person. With this purpose, the most important information about the person would be included.

A one-page profile can also be specific in terms of a place or context. Examples include: hospital, school, employment, home, etc.

Identifying the purpose will help you determine what information to include in the one-page profile.

Refer to it all the time

Ideally the one-page profile should be at the front of all paperwork relating to the person and be referred to on a daily basis.

Always make sure that what is important to the person and what best support looks like is actually happening. If it is not then take action.

Keep it up to date

You must keep the information in a one-page profile up to date – this means reviewing it with the person on a regular basis.

You can use the working and not working tool, and other person-centered tools to help you to do this.

Update other tools

Information from the one-page profile can be used to update other person-centered thinking tools and vice versa.

For example, by talking to someone about what’s important to and for them, you may learn about someone who is important in their lives that you didn’t know about before. You can then add this information to a person’s relationship circle.

This may happen the other way around: while developing someone’s relationship circle, you may come across a relationship that is important enough to be added to the person’s one-page profile.