Person Centered Planning Services

Person Centered Planning (PCP) is a way for people to plan their lives in their communities, set the goals they want to achieve, and develop a plan for how to accomplish them. PCP promotes community life that honors the individual's preferences, choices, and abilities. The person-centered planning process involves families, friends, and professionals as the individual desires or requires.

Pre-planning is a key component of the person-centered planning process. During the pre-planning meeting the individual has the opportunity to identify their dreams and goals for the upcoming year. They have the opportunity to determine who they want to invite to the planning meeting to help support the achievement of those goals. The individual chooses where and when the meeting occurs and who is responsible for facilitating and recording the meeting.

The goal of person-centered planning is to support the individual to create a plan that prioritizes their needs, preferences and values. It acknowledges that they are the experts in their own life and what they want to achieve. It gives the individual the opportunity to have control over their own life.

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Developing Your Person Centered Plan

Individuals with Intellectual Deficits

Person-Centered Planning (PCP) for individuals with intellectual deficits can be an impactful tool that respects a person’s autonomy, recognizes their humanity and dignity, dreams desires, and empowers them to engage with supports for sustained care and support. Appropriate planning and positive supports can result in greater independence and satisfaction, while the ability to decide their path forward.

APPRECOTS works with agencies to develop the framework for designing plans that focus on the individual in a way that is collaborative, empowers the individual, and establishes goals, while being flexible to grow and change.

Our approach to planning for individuals with intellectual disabilities recognizes the strengths of each individual and the positive outcomes that thoughtful, purposeful, and directed planning provides.

Adults with Mental Illness

When doing person centered planning with adults with mental illness, it is important to recognize that the benefits of person-centered planning go beyond just developing a treatment plan. It is important to develop plans that engage the individual with in shared decision making regarding their goals, desires, and life situation. Individuals with serious mental illness can often be difficult to engage in ongoing treatment.

APPRECOTS has expertise in developing Person Centered Planning (PCP) that engages the individual in shared decision making, which can result in a broad range of positive outcomes. This can include feelings of higher levels of shared decision making, and a more positive attitude towards medications and higher self-efficacy. Creating an open, exploratory and non-judgemental space allows for trust to build and ideally results in enhanced treatment engagement.

Youth and Families

Family centered planning is about more than arriving at a treatment plan. Involving families in the planning process improves outcomes because the family’s thoughts, feelings, and experiences have been heard and considered. This engagement increases the family’s commitment to working the plan. It empowers the family to act to change behaviors and conditions, while ensuring everyone is working toward the same end goal. Research shows that better outcomes are achieved when family members and youth have meaningful roles in their treatment.

APPRECOTS can help you develop a family centered planning process with joint decision making that can improve engagement and help you and the family to form an alliance.

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Are you ready to take the next step in your personal or professional development? Whether you’re looking to improve on comprehension or application of Person Centered Planning, our training and support provides guidance and skills you need to succeed. 

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