The National Center on Advancing Person-Centered Practices and Systems (NCAPPS) is hosting a webinar that will convene members of the Massachusetts-based Council Against Institutional and Psychiatric Abuse (CAIPA) to explore what person-centered planning should – and shouldn’t – look like. While person-centered planning is intended to support people to live self-determined lives, it can also be used inappropriately to compel and coerce people into purchasing services they do not want. This webinar will ultimately explain how person-centered planning has the potential to advance equity by opening multiple pathways to well-being, while also having the potential to deepen existing inequities when poorly implemented.
Presenters:
- Sera Davidow, Director, Wildflower Alliance
- Ebony Flint, Policy Analyst, Human Services Research Institute, Certified Peer Specialist
- Lionel Frechette (they/them), a deaf, multiply disabled queer person with 16 years of living with extreme states and 6 years of both working within the mental health system in different capacities and receiving services
- Andy Bereske, Advocate, Wildflower Alliance
- Thomas Brown, an advocate who spends much of his time working with the Mental Health Legal Advisers Committee using lived experience to leverage critical issues in the state legislature related to mental health
This webinar will take place on Tuesday, June 20 at 2:30 p.m. ET.