Pre-Planning Meeting
Before you have a person-centered planning meeting, there is a pre-planning meeting. You need to decide several things that will help your person-centered planning meeting go more smoothly. Things like...
Allies/Circles of Support
An ally is someone who supports you. You can learn more about natural supports here.
When you have your person-centered planning meeting, it can be helpful to have allies who are natural supports at your meeting. The more people at a planning meeting who are interested in you and want you to succeed, the more answers there can be.
An ally is one person in a circle of support. Allies should make up a circle of support, and can include friends, peer support specialists...
Who to Invite
You can invite anyone you want to your person-centered planning meeting. People who you have met, people you talk to on the street corner, the people you go bowling with; they are all people you can invite to your person-centered planning meeting. You want the people you invite to care about what is best for you, and to be people who listen to you, and really hear what you say...
Independent Facilitation
An independent facilitator is a person who makes sure that the focus of your person-centered planning meeting is on what you want and need. They are concerned with making sure your hopes, interests and goals are paid attention to. An independent facilitator does not work for the mental health agency or provider you receive your services from.
Goals
How do the people at my meeting know what I need and where I want to end up?
First, you have to share where you want to end up. Services and supports are based on what your answer is. The services and supports that your provider provides, must be medically necessary, and defined by how much is going to be done and for how long. You want this to be defined. That way everyone knows what to expect. The official terms are medical necessity, scope and duration.
The Meeting
On the date and time you chose, you, and whoever you invited to your planning meeting, meet and plan for what can and needs to happen for you to get the life that you want to have.
Outcomes
Outcomes are specific descriptions of what you will be able to do, have or know how to do when your person-centered planning process has happened. They are usually stated as knowledge, a skill, an item, an accomplishment or an attitude.
Wanting Services Outside the Agency
Individual Plan of Service (IPOS)
Problems
What if I Don’t Like My Person-Centered Plan or Don’t Agree With It?
If you don’t agree with what is in your Person-Centered Plan, you have several choices.