Winter/Spring 2024: Person-Centered Planning
In this issue we look at what person-centered planning is – and isn’t – and why it is so important.
Edition: Winter/Spring 2024: Person-Centered Planning
In this issue we look at what person-centered planning is – and isn’t – and why it is important that New Hampshire reimagine what it means to support people with disabilities in living a self-determined life. We encourage our readers to reflect on what person-centered means to them and invite conversation about how we can advocate for systems that reflect authentic choice.
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Take Control of Your Life
Imagine your future. What do you want it to look like? How do you plan to achieve a life that is important to you? Which of your strengths can help you achieve your goals?
Thinking Outside The Box
“If you want to have a person-centered plan, ask, and if they don’t listen ask again and insist on it and get other people to help advocate for you.”
Supporting Real Person-Centered Planning in New Hampshire
Calling something person-centered doesn’t make it so. Unfortunately, the words “person-centered” are often used inaccurately, and/or in conjunction with an individual support plan. This is not person-centered planning.
Charting the LifeCourse: A Human-Centric Approach to Supporting Persons with Disabilities and their Families
All people have the right to live, love, work, play and pursue their life aspirations. This belief drives the Charting the LifeCourse (CtLC) framework and tools. Developed in collaboration with family members and individuals with disabilities, CtLC helps individuals explore and navigate life and the...
Creating Person-Centered Systems
Services and supports are not just to protect people’s health and safety but to help them lead more fulfilling lives—lives in which they can define what is important to them. Embracing this idea is one thing; making it happen in practice is harder.
What is Graphic Recording?
People learn and communicate in different ways…One new and interesting communication art form is something referred to as graphic recording or graphic facilitating.
Remembering Jeff Dickinson
As a dedicated and unwavering disability rights advocate, Jeff Dickinson committed himself to supporting efforts that brought about positive impacts for the disability community and to New Hampshire as a whole. He questioned misconceptions about disability and encouraged the need for social justice...
In Memory of Denis Greenwood, NH advocate for recreation and education
Denis believed that individuals with lived experience of intellectual and developmental disabilities were life-long learners. He spent many years advocating for resources and educational opportunities to be provided to adults who did not have access to formal education as children.
Disability Rights Center – NH
Person-centered planning is not just a tool for individuals, it is also a way of thinking that can and should be implemented system-wide and within individual organizations…
NHCDD
The NHCDD develops and supports initiatives that promote disability justice through broadcast media…
Helpful Tools and Resources
There are several different models and guides for person-centered planning…and this is your one-stop shop!