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Outline:
Section 1: Introduction
About This Course
Learning Objectives
Section 2: Using a Personal Outcomes Measures® Approach
Dana’s New Apartment
Planning Processes
Person-Centered Planning
The Person as the Key Decision Maker
The Person as the Focus of the Plan
Stop and Think
Personal Outcome Measures®: A Different Approach to Planning
The Personal Outcome Measures®
Learning About People
Learning About People Through Personal Outcome Measures®
Listening Skills for Gathering Information
Helping Carlos
Summary
Section 3: Defining Individual Outcome Priorities
Evaluating Information: Is the Outcome Present?
Presence of an Outcome
Presence of Individualized Supports
Dana’s Individualized Supports
Identifying Priority Outcomes
Planning Around the Person’s Preferences and Choices
More Than a Plan
More Than a Program
Values and Beliefs of Person-Centered Planning
Natural Supports
The Planning Process
Planning Meetings
Keeping the Person at the Focus of Meetings
Ground Rules for Effective Planning Sessions
Facilitating a Meeting
Focus on Personal Outcomes
Decision-Making: Whose Life is It Anyway?
Person-Centered Decision Making
Mayra’s Planning Session
Summary
Section 4: Creating and Changing the Support Plan
Developing Support Strategies
Creating an Array of Support Options
Community Connections and Natural Supports
Supportive Activities
Linking Supports to Outcomes
Accountability and Commitments
Time Frames for Accountability
The Written Plan
Using the Planning Form
Personal Planning Form: Priorities for “What I Have”
Personal Planning Form: Priorities for “What I Want”
Personal Planning Form: Support Needs for Outcome Priorities—“What I Need”
Personal Planning Form: “My Supports”
Personal Planning Form: “No Thanks.”
Changing Priorities, Changing Plans
Creating a Culture of Continuous Learning
A Flexible and Responsive Planning Process
Focusing on the Purpose
Charmaine and Lonnie
Summary
Section 5: Put into Practice
Put into Practice: Hands-on Experiences
Creating Your Own Work Portfolio
Section 6: Conclusion
Summary
Course Contributors
References
Congratulations!
Cathy Ficker Terrill’s career has included working in government, non-profit organizations, university teaching, advocacy and supporting and mentoring self advocates. Before joining CQL on January 1, 2013, Cathy was President and CEO of The Institute on Public Policy for People with Disabilities, an Illinois based organization dedicated to providing leadership and technical assistance to drive public policy and promote best practices for individuals with disabilities. Cathy previously served as President and CEO of the Ray Graham Association, where she utilized the CQL Personal Outcome Measures® to reinvent a provider agency to become a more community based, person-centered organization. Ray Graham Association was the first organization to be accredited with both the Quality Measures 2005® and the latest standards, Person-centered Excellence Accreditation. Past President of the American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (AAIDD), as well as a former President of Illinois TASH, Cathy authored a manual on Consent Issues for Self-Advocates and Direct Care Staff. Terrill was a two term Presidential Appointee to the President’s Committee for People with Intellectual Disabilities (PCPID). For the past 20 years, Cathy has volunteered internationally, helping to create services for people with disabilities in Kosovo, Poland, Russia, Korea, Cyprus, Lithuania, Japan, Saudi Arabia and China. Disclosure: Cathy Ficker Terrill, M.S. has declared that no conflict of interest, Relevant Financial Relationship or Relevant Non-Financial Relationship exists.Instructor: Mary Kay Rizzolo, DrPH
Mary Kay Rizzolo is the President and CEO of CQL | The Council on Quality and Leadership. Before joining CQL on January 19, 2016, Mary Kay was the Associate Director of the Institute on Disability and Human Development (IDHD), the University Center for Excellence on Developmental Disabilities for the State of Illinois. She has also served as a Clinical Associate Professor in the Department of Disability and Human Development at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) where she mentored students and taught classes on disability policy and community integration for people with disabilities. Mary Kay previously worked at the Coleman Institute for Cognitive Disabilities at the University of Colorado, was a member of the State of the States in Developmental Disabilities project for almost two decades, a front line supervisor at a large ICF/DD and managed a three-county program that provided home-delivered meals and programming for older adults. Mary Kay holds a Doctorate in Public Health (University of Illinois at Chicago), a Master’s in Psychology (North Carolina Central University) and a Bachelor’s in Psychology (University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill). Mary Kay is the author of over 50 book chapters, journal articles and reports, focusing on public and financial spending in the states, family support, HCBS Waiver services, and cognitive technologies. Disclosure: Mary Kay Rizzolo, DrPH has declared that no conflict of interest, Relevant Financial Relationship or Relevant Non-Financial Relationship exists.