|
|
 |
|
PEAK’s Person-Centered Planning Project
PEAK Parent Center provides person-centered planning services to people with disabilities in Colorado between the ages of 21 and 30 years old and 18 - 20 year olds who no longer receive school district services. [NOTE: Person-centered planning services for younger children are available on a fee-for services basis.]
|
|
What is Person-Centered Planning
Person-centered planning is a family of unique planning processes based on the belief that people are best understood in terms of their contributions, personal interests, and gifts. Person-centered planning facilitates a shift in thinking from relying on systems for guiding a person’s life to focusing on personal control, belonging, and choices. Person-centered planning facilitates the development of personal support circles and positive, proactive life plans to assist young people with disabilities and their families in realizing their goals for the future.
|
|
Person-Centered Planning Project Activities
1. PATH Planning Sessions
2. Circle Support Services
3. Life Building Course
4. Taking Charge Course
5. Person-Centered Planning Facilitator Training and Certification Institute
|
|
PATH Planning Sessions:
The PATH planning process helps you build your personal support circle and make a plan for reaching your goals for the future. An assigned facilitator and a recorder guide you, your family, and other people of your choice through a creative, graphic planning process during which you identify your dreams, set goals and plan for how, with help from your circle, you will achieve those goals. The final PATH step is an Action Plan with specific steps that will be taken to move forward on your plan. Spanish-speaking facilitators are available.
For an information sheet about the PATH process, click below:
English Español
To schedule a PATH, click below for a session request form:
English Español
|
|
Circle Support Services
Just experiencing a PATH session is often not enough to keep going forward on your life goals. A circle or personal network can be an important support for a person for their whole life.
After making a plan and starting your circle, get support from our project consultants for how to keep your circle strong and take action steps toward your goals. A facilitator from this project can lead your first few circle meetings to help you and your group keep moving on the right path!
In addition to individual circle follow-up support, PEAK offers the “Making Your Circle Work for You” workshop twice a year in the metro Denver area. This workshop is open to anyone who is interested in learning more about person-centered planning and circles and provides helpful information for circle members who want to learn more about keeping their circles strong and active.
The next “Making Your Circle Work for You” workshop will be held in the Fall of 2010. Stay tuned for more information.
Click below for a flyer about the completed May 5, 2010 workshop.
English Español
|
|
Life Building Course
Life Building is a community-based life planning course designed to help young people with disabilities leaving school-based support services and their families who want to get organized and work on goals for the future. The young people with disabilities each attend with people of their choice, including family members, friends, co-workers, neighbors and others. A facilitator guides groups through individual planning time and also provides opportunities for sharing ideas and stories with other groups. In addition, resource people from the local community are invited to serve as mentors for the young people and to help with planning. Participants also each experience their own PATH planning session as part of the Life Building Course. Spanish language interpretation is available.
The 2009-10 Aurora Life Building Course was just completed in March of 2010 and applications are no longer being accepted. Future plans include offering the Life Building course once again in Aurora and establishing community support for holding Life Building courses in other Colorado communities. Stay tuned for more information!
To view the flyer and application for the 2010 Aurora Life Building Course, click below:
English Español
|
|
Taking Charge! Advocacy and Leadership Course
Taking Charge! is a five-session course that uses a person-centered approach to helping young adults with disabilities develop self-advocacy and leadership skills. The course is held annually in Denver and is open to young adults with disabilities, ages 21-30, from around Colorado. This course is recommended for people who have already participated in a person-centered planning activity (like the PATH process or Life Building Course) and who want more information and help to move ahead with their plans. Participant can each invite up to three friends and family members, or others to participate with them. Participants gain new ideas, skills and strategies for creating a better life. Taking Charge! gives people tools for turning dreams into reality! Spanish language interpretation is available.
What happens at TAKING CHARGE?
Taking Charge! is a highly interactive learning experience that involves brief presentations and large and small group discussions. Every session includes time for participants and their circle members to work on their own plans as well as time to share ideas with members of other circles.
What participants have to say about the Taking Charge Course:
“I learned how to speak up for myself.”
“Truly one of the finest experiences. My son and I came away with so much energy, hope, vision, and excitement!”
“Many good things have happened for me since Taking Charge!”
Click here to read more about the Taking Charge course.
The 2010 Taking Charge Course sessions began in January 2010. Applications for 2010 are no longer being accepted. PEAK plans for this course to be offered annually. Please watch this site for details about the next Taking Charge course, tentatively scheduled to begin in January of 2011.
To view brochures and application forms for the 2010 Taking Charge course, click below:
English Español
|
|
Person-Centered Planning Facilitator Training and Certification Institute
This institute is for people who know about person-centered planning and want to learn how to facilitate planning sessions for young people with disabilities in Colorado. During the three days of training, participants learn the values-based principles of person-centered planning, the steps of the PATH process, and practice the skills they need to master to become successful facilitators. At the end of the three days, participants complete a practicum experience, where they each facilitate and record actual PATH planning sessions for young people, under the supervision of skilled facilitation coaches. Successful trainees are then certified as having completed the training and are called upon to work as facilitators for PATH session requests received by PEAK.
There are currently no Facilitator Institutes scheduled.
|
|
More Information
Click below for a project brochure:
English Español
Recommended web sites for more information about person-centered planning:
www.inclusion.com
www.capacityworks.com
www.communityworks.info
For more information about all the person-centered planning activities offered by this project, please email personcenteredplanning@peakparent.org or call
1-800-284-0251, ext.117.
|
|
