PEOPLE IN MY LIFE

1. Identify support relationships – How can they expand, broaden/create new relationships. -Sally Reed Crawford Who do you spend time with? Call on the Phone Clergy Doctors Dates PEOPLE IN MY LIFE Friends Acquaintances Family Staff

4. Identify places where an individual can get connected with ongoing relationships – versus – places that just provide customer service.–Sally Reed Crawford School Errands Weekends Church Work PLACES I GO Favorite Place Daily Basis Groceries Vacation Time Alone

7. To acknowledge what kind of control individual exercises over their daily schedule & long term decisions. -Sally Reed Crawford Who decides routines? Are you Happy? Hairstyle? Money? CHOICES I MAKE Access everything in your home? Who Decides? Daily Schedule? Services?

8. Acknowledge gifts/talents, unique qualities, strengths that contribute and enrich other’s lives. –Sally Reed Crawford Bring to Others Do Best Display of Caring Help Others GIFTS Happiness to Others? Talents Strengths Skills

10. What Works / What Doesn’tDiscover what a person likes & dislikes; environments that are and aren’t comfortable; what supports are necessary to succeed; how s/he likes to spend time & with whom. MY PREFERENCES

14. Health - Identify what needs to be shared so that education of community connections is complete. Identify what is best left for private conversations Rights – use circle to continue ongoing education of individual rights and civil liberties. –Sally Reed Crawford Has your level of physical activity changed? How do you stay healthy? Morning Person Safety Rights, Health, Wellness & Safety Special Diet Do you have any fears? Medication? Are you home alone? Who’s your Doctor?

17. To maximize communication. If necessary, seek ways to adapt and facilitate communication.MY WAY OF COMMUNICATING

18. To acknowledge the individual’s current roles & explore new role identification in the Community. -Sally Reed Crawford Letter Writer Friend Current Roles Taxpayer Employee MY ROLES Church Member Family Member Volunteer Specific Roles Neighbor

20. Begins to identify how life can be different & can sometimes address concerns & demystify fears. –Sally Reed Crawford

22. Dreams for short term and long term future – in every aspect of life Good Health Continual Education Church Worship MY VISION FOR THE FUTURE Food Folks & Fun A Home A Job A Relationship

24. Place to turn “lemons into lemonade”. The circle members work together to brainstorm solution. Barriers Relationships Fears Opening Doors Obstacles & Opportunities Risks Transportation Resources Money

26. Time to negotiate all resources – paid & non-paid. Always strive for typical supports first. Who has control over your budget? What are unmet or undiscovered needs? How many hours of each service do you receive? MY BUDGET What would you like to add to or delete from your budget? Do you participate in how decisions are made re: how your budget is allotted? Best help you understand your finances? Is your spending money enough to meet your needs?

27. DEVELOPING THEPERSONAL PROFILE Reasons for Profiling: 1. Get to know the person--hear his/her view on life 2. Develop a shared appreciation of the person's gifts, capacities and struggles 3. Value and include the perspectives of family members, direct service workers, friends and others typically excluded

28. DEVELOPING THE PERSONAL PROFILE 4. Establish a record of how things are now for future planning, goal setting and objectives • Discuss values, options, and feelings in an informal setting • Prioritize actions and share responsibilities 7. Determine who should be at subsequent meeting(s)

29. Components of Personal Futures Planning 3. Finding New Directions: The Planning Meetings • Priorities • Opportunities & Obstacles • Strategies • Action Plans (who, what, by when) 4. Continuous Action: Solving Problems Over Time • Revisit past Commitments • What Happened? • Accomplishments celebrated • New Strategies for old and new barriers • New Commitments

33. Essential Lifestyle Planning • Uses plain, simple language--inviting to read • Detailed to be useful; brief to be read • Separates what is important to the person from what is important to others • Addresses issues that are sensitive in a way that respects privacy • Balances choice and risk

34. Components of ELP • Who contributed to the plan -everyone & their relationship to focus person • Positive reputation -typical descriptors—NOT “has all ADLs” -positive attributes or valued skills 3. What is important to the person -people, activities, pace, routines

35. Components of ELP • What do we need to know or do to support this person -“if this is going to happen we must. . .” -how will things that make sense be maintain • Action Planning -start with an issue, describe the now, brainstorm ways to change (or keep) the situation, chose what to do, who will do it, by when it will be done

36. Components of MAPS 1. What is MAP (e.g., planning tool)? 2. What is . . .’s history or story? 3. What are your dreams for. . .? 4. What are your nightmares for. . .? 5. Who is . . .? 6. What are . . .’s strengths, gifts, talents? 7. What does. . .need? 8. What would . . .’s ideal day at school look like and what must be done to make it happen?

37. Invitation to a MAP Meeting

38. The PATH Process 1. Touching the Dream--North Star 2. Sensing the Goal(establish time frame) 3. Grounding in the Now 4. Identifying People toEnroll 5. Recognizing ways to Build Strength 6. Charting action for the Next Few Months 7. Planning the Next Month’s Work 8. Committing to the First Steps

39. 1 Name of the PATH 2 3 4 5 8 7 6

41. What is important to the personNon-Negotiables • Lifestyle choices which are essential to a reasonable quality of life for the person • Positive non-negotiables are essential for a person’s life to be tolerable • Non-negotiables represent the core values andcharacteristics of a person. Source: M. Smull

42. What is important to the personNon-Negotiables Examples of non-negotiables: -having lots of friends -living where I grew up -living with people who do not mind clutter -living with people who “love me the best” -not living in the city -control over my own space, my own possessions *Providers who do not meet these are NOT considered.

43. Driving the Action

44. Consequences of Action Planning • Dream or desire is realized • Hard decisions need to be made • Compromise • Trade-off • Give up

45. About Choices & Action Planning • Where services that honor choices do not exist, the setting must be found and then supports built around the individual. • If the time to realization is months, investigate interim efforts to improve life while the individual waits. M. Smull

46. About Choices & Action Planning • Guard against interim becoming permanent. • We must ensure that non-negotiables will be met. M. Smull

47. Inviting Creativity

48. The Facilitator:Encouraging Creative Capacity Instead of….Try…... We’ve always done it that wayMaybe we could…. There’s only one wayTell me more about…. That will never workWhat if….. We’ve tried that onceWhat are all the options? We’re not ready for thatLet’s give it a try Be realisticWe might want to consider It’s too much workLet’s try it anyway It’s not in the budgetWhat ideas do you have?

49. The Facilitator:Creative Capacity--Tools • Brainstorming • Brainstorming with post-its • Idea tossing • Mind mapping • Fishbone diagrams • Affinity diagrams • Etc.

50. TECHNIQUES FOR RECORDING THE MEETINGS