Voices & Choices Person-Centered Planning Project

Central to person-centered planning is a circle of friends and supporters, including the person with a disability, family members, friends, peers, teachers, and other service providers. In the PATH process this team of support creates a shared dream of a full and rich life for the person with a disability.  This method results in a strong commitment on the part of the team members to take specific actions now to help the individual progress along his\her path to the future.

Academic Course with Community-Based Outcome

A newly-revised curriculum for Human Services 240, "Person Centered Planning" and Collaborative Team Building has been implemented and the course is offered twice annually.  Students achieve competency in the knowledge of systems of care and associated resources, person centered planning tools and processes, facilitations skills, team building processes and skills, and person centered planning strategies in wraparound service planning.

Person-Centered Planning Facilitator Certification Course

A newly-revised curriculum for the Person-Centered Planning Facilitator Certification course has been implemented to begin June 25, 2010. The course is fully online and asynchronous, with mentors available throughout the process. Qualifications to register for the course: 1) Successful Completion of HUMS V240 “Person-Centered Planning and Collaborative Team Building, or 2) Alternate Person-Centered Planning training at a qualified institution.

(.pdf) QUALIFICATIONS DOC and (.pdf) APPLICATION HERE

For more information contact Kathy Fitzgerald at 907-264-6242, kathyf@alaskachd.org.

Fall 2010 HUMS V240 “Person-Centered Planning & Creating Collaborative Teams” - course dates TBA

This is a mixed format class with one face-to-face seminar in March along with online meetings in Elluminate Live.

View the current HUMS 240 syllabus

Email Lara Madden at lara@alaskachd.org for registration information.

Information & Referral Network

The vision of the project includes creating the “Voices and Choices Network,” a single access point for coordination of person centered planning services.  With the State of Alaska, structures will be provided to build a network of certified plan facilitators to support and manage the referral process, matching consumers with facilitators.

Outcomes

Using the Wraparound Fidelity Index, version 4 (WFI-4), process and outcome measures will be evaluated to assess level of consumer and family satisfaction with the person centered planning process.  The project should show that those who participate will experience greater satisfaction with their service plan and improved functioning in at least one life domain. 

Contact Tammy Peria for more information at 907-272-8270 or by email.