Person Centered Planning

The Community Living Exchange Collaborative At ILRU has prepared this summary notes from the National Summit on Self-Determination and Cognitive Disabilities held on April 26-28, 2004. The notes provide an overview of how to: plan for risk, manage risk, optimizing independent functioning, organizing community, natural and peer supports. Each subject is broken into the tools needed, changes needed, solutions, and training needed.

On October 12, 2004 the Community Living Exchange Collaborative at Rutgers Center for State Health Policy hosted a Self-Direction audio conference for Independence Plus and CPASS grantees to discuss Person-Centered Planning and Individual Budgeting. Presentations inlcuded CMS, Minnesota, Wyoming, and New Hampshire.

This paper discusses the ethical/right relationship that must exsist between service systems and the people they serve and between the individuals in the service system and the people they serve. It provides a good underpinning for work in person-centered planning.

This paper explores the essential relationships that must exist if people are to take precedence over systems. It considers bureaucracy and its relationship to the people it purports to serve. This article serves as a nice underpinning for work on person-centered planning.

This is the keynote presentation given by Michael Kendrick at The Promise of Opportunity conference in Albany, NY. The presentation includes a discussion of person-centered planning vs. person-centeredness. It also looks at the relationships and values that must be present if people are to be at the heart of social service systems.

The State of Michigan combined several funding sources in its contracts with local community mental health agencies, which serve people with developmental disabilities, mental illness, and addiction disorders. To ensure access and improve choice, the contracts require local agencies offer a wide array of services and use a person-centered planning process to determine a person’s service plan. In the first two years of using this model, access to services improved and costs were reduced.

This web cast focused on the emerging use of person-centered or person-directed planning as a cross-disability approach to develop an individualized service plan that best incorporates the values of self-determination. Sherrie Anderson, Dianne Duerscheidt, and Debra McLean presented.

The Consumer Directed Attendant Support (CDAS) program is designed to help people with disabilities manage their own attendant services. The Colorado Department of Health Care Policy and Financing (HCPF) and the CDAS Advisory Committee have developed this program. This manual is designed to be a resource for you while in CDAS. It includes information about what it means to direct your own attendant support along with suggestions, sample forms and checklists.

This Internet site is provided as a resource for policymakers, health care consumers, providers, and all citizens of Colorado. The site includes information on the Medical Assistance Program and the Consumer Directed Attendant Support (CDAS) program.

This website is part of a national initiative funded by The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to increase opportunities for older consumers to direct their own care. Consumer Direction describes programs and services where people are given maximum choice and control over their care. When people say they want to be \"independent\" or they want \"autonomy\" or \"self-direction,\" they are talking about consumer direction. Access to the Consumer Direction newletter, \"Consumer Choice\" is available here.