- What is Person-Centered Planning?
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Person-Centered Planning (PCP) is an ongoing process that helps people plan for the life they want. The process includes supporting informed choice, exploring communities and options for support, and listening to people.
From these steps, a plan can be developed that supports life’s goals.
“In order for the PCP process to include self-determination and informed choices, it is important that I, the self-advocate, be at the center. Talking about my likes, dislikes, dreams, preferences, strengths, and interests must be part of the planning. This is MY life.”
"Speaking Up for Us"Self-Advocate
To support people in planning, it is important to keep life outcomes - not service outcomes - as the focus.
In , Beth Mount talks about the differences between Service-Centered Planning and Person-Centered Planning.
Positive outcomes when people are part of life in a community:
- People having friends who call them and pick them up for coffee just because they like them
- People being in lots of culturally valued roles –employee, volunteer, teacher, friend, adult learner, husband, wife, board member, Y member, church choir participant, business owner
- People having calendars full of personally chosen events
- People making healthy choices in their lives through exercise, nutrition, and preventative care
- People experiencing lives that look different at different times of the year, in different years - “no status quo life”
- People having a significant other to share their capacity for love with
- People celebrating their cultural and spiritual beliefs in places that are meaningful to them
- People having healthy, caring relationships with family
- People being able to access the varied transportation they need to get where they are going
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Charting the LifeCourse (CtLC)
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Charting the LifeCourse (CtLC) is a framework that can help all people create a vision for their future. It is designed to support a person, their case manager/care coordinator, and people who love and care about them. These tools guide thinking about what has helped or hindered achieving their goals in the past. It also helps create a vision of the choices, options, and experiences that are part of their full and meaningful life.
The offers tools to help people at any stage of life to think about life as they want to live it. This individually described vision may be referred to as the person’s good life.
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fb88 has adopted eight Life Domains to help promote PCP conversations and learn what is important TO/ important FOR each person (click each for more information and resources):
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Tools to Support Developing a PCP
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The Life Experiences Series is recommended to help explore specific stages. :
- Focus on Transition to Adulthood Quick Guide
- Focus on Adulthood Quick Guide
- Focus on Aging Quick Guide
There are a variety of tools that can help individuals and their families with the PCP process. OADS recommends using Charting the LifeCourse tools developed by families. These are available to .
Personal Profile: Planning works best when individuals and families successfully communicate to others about what is most important in their life. Use of the provides an at-a-glance way of knowing what really matters to the person and can be used as they meet different people. The Personal Profile helps others know what to pay attention to and what works best to create positive change for the person.
Life Stage Trajectory: Use of the form helps identify the steps or experiences a person might consider as part of “a good life.” The space around the arrows can be used to think about current or needed life experiences that help point the trajectory arrow in the direction of the good life vision.
Integrated Supports: The Integrated Support Star helps identify the supports the person is using now and think about other supports that might be helpful. In the past, conversations about supports for people with disabilities mainly revolved around the supports offered by the disability system. This tool helps identify a variety of supports outside of that scope. These supports include relationships, technology, personal strengths/assets, supports anyone in the community can access, and others based on eligibility criteria.
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Person-Centered Planning Resources
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- fb88’s Person-Centered Planning Process- Instruction Guide (PDF)
- fb88's Person-Centered Planning Process- Frequently Asked Questions (Word)
Case Manager Training:
Care Coordinator Training:
Provider Training:
- Overview of fb88's Enhanced PCP Process for Waiver Providers (PowerPoint)
- Service Implementation Plan (PowerPoint)
- Service Implementation Plan Form (PDF)
- How to Add/Update a SIP in EIS Process (PDF)
PCP Rules/Statutes:
PCP Forms:
If you have questions about person centered planning, would like to share successes and/or make recommendations, please send to PersonCenterPlanning.DHHS@maine.gov.