Supporting
Individuals and Families to
Self Direct Their Lives Through the
Maryland New Directions Medicaid Waiver
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Person-Centered Planning
It’s about you -- what is important to you right now, in this stage of your life. But, you have to be a little careful with this term, because "Person-centered planning" has become an overused term in the service delivery world. It kind of has taken on a life of its own because lots of people at agencies take training in order to become "person-centered" and organizations talk about being "person-centered" in the delivery of services to people who have disability labels. And they may be. But you have to decide for yourself, and the first step is to really know what you want. What is important "to" you, not just "for" you. So common has the language of person-centered practices become that we have to be careful that we are not putting the newest trendy label on what we have always been doing! Answer these questions to figure out if your plan is truly designed by and for you! In the Maryland New Directions Waiver - a person-centered plan is very important because it will be what your budget for getting services is based upon and it will be the map or the directions for how you will direct your own services and support, and who will help you. If you feel like you need more help in making your plan be more self-directed, contact one of the peer mentors in your region. (link). Person-centered planning is based on the principles of self-determination. A self-advocate, Michael Kennedy and a colleague of his at the Center for Human Policy developed this fact sheet that will help you understand more about what self-determination is and is not. Person-Centered Plans The New Directions Waiver calls for every person to have a written Plan Of Care utilizing a family or person-centered planning process. That means that the process to develop your plan, who helps develop the plan, and what it says are all directed by you and your family. Family or person-centered planning is intended to identify your preferences, strengths, capacities, needs and desired outcomes or goals. The process includes participants freely chosen by you and your family, who are able to serve as important contributors to helping you achieve your plan. The family or person-centered planning process enables and assists you to access a personalized mix of paid and non-paid services and support for all of the identified personally-defined outcomes. It also helps you to decide upon the training, supports, therapies, treatments and/or other services you and your team determine are needed to help you achieve those outcomes. Having a person-centered plan is the first step of self-directing services. It needs to describe the services and supports you will need to achieve your goals, ie: how often you will get each service, and the type of provider you would like to use to provide services. Your plan will also contain the individual training requirements for providers of service, and contain a plan for how potential emergency needs will be met. Here are two examples of plans. (links to examples) The following individuals are responsible for the preparation of the plans of care: Copies of your written plans of care will be maintained for a minimum period of 3 years in the following location(s):
Resources and Links Person-centered Planning and Perversion Prevention (by Michael Smull and Susie Burke Harrison, who by the way, live in Maryland) The Person-Centered Planning Education Site - a very informative site that has an online course! The Origins of Person-Centered Planning (By Connie Lyle O'Brien and John O'Brien, two international leaders in this movement, who have done lots of lots of plans with people) What is Person-Centered Planning
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My Life: Going
FAR is a project of TASH. |
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