Person-Centered Approaches: Promoting Strengths and Empowering Youth toward Positive Futures

2015

Jacy Farkas
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520-626-2207

This session will provide participants with an overview of the various person-centered planning models and their application in the school setting. Person-centered planning is a discovery process used to search out what is truly important to an individual. It is a process that can give voice to young peoples biggest dreams without trying to fit them to school or services ideals. MAP (Making Action Plans), a graphic personal futures planning approach, which is currently being used in Menta Schools in both Arizona and Illinois, will be shared. Essential Lifestyle and Personal Futures Planning, popular methods used throughout Arizona, will also be shared. The session will discuss how a person-centered plan (PCP) and planning process is beneficial to both youth and school personnel. Presenters will show how to lift the information from a PCP and put it in the transition pages or other parts of the IEP. Resources in Arizona for facilitating Person-Centered Plans will be shared,

person-centered planning, transition planning, transition

Conference presentations and posters presented

Consumers/Families, Professionals, Students

Electronic (disc, CD, 508 compliant web posting)

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