Person-Centred Planning

Citizens grow by following their higher purpose and living in a way that is meaningful to them.

Paper: 10.09.24 Care (Education) & Treatment Reviews and Dynamic Support Registers Practical advice from families can ensure people with learning disabilities or autism avoid institutional care.
Article: 23.07.24 A Digital Approach to Person-Centred Planning Digital technology is opening up new ways in which people can develop their own person centred plan.
Paper: 15.09.23 The Problem with Quality of Life Disability strategy should be built around an ambitious vision for deinstitutionalisation and citizenship for all.
Paper: 28.02.23 This Is How I Manage This is a Finnish tool, available here in English, to help people develop their own support plan.
Article: 04.11.22 Building the Right Support... Why we are failing to provide the right support to people and what we can do to fix it.
Paper: 25.07.22 European Guidelines on Deinstitutionalisation Good practice guide on the transition from Institutional to Community-based Care.
Paper: 02.04.22 Different Worldview, Different Person-Centred Plan John O'Brien reflects on two very different ways of understanding Person-Centred Planning.
Paper: 08.03.22 A New Way Home: Slovakian Edition Help for people in Slovakia and the Czech Republic to find new paths to living in their own home.
Paper: 23.11.21 Genealogy of Person-Centred Planning How activists aligned with people with developmental disabilities and their families in Canada, the US and the UK.
Paper: 20.07.21 What Can We Do With Those Families? Too often families are treated disrespectfully, even by those seeking to advance inclusion or person-centred work.
Paper: 11.06.21 Avoiding Misconceptions When Designing Supports We need to readjust our thinking to overcome the prejudices against disabled people built into the modern world.
Paper: 09.03.21 A New Way Home New Edition A practical guide to leaving institutional care and returning to your community.
Inspiration: 04.03.21 Everyone Has Strengths Virtues or character strengths help us think about what is important in our lives and can be a useful person-centred…
Film: 05.09.20 Positive Psychology & Person-Centred Planning An interview with Michaela Wegener on Positive Psychology and its relationship to person-centred planning.
Film: 25.02.20 The heart and soul of person-centred planning Beth Mount reflects on creating a person-centered practice that is rooted in the quest for justice.
Paper: 29.11.19 Dissent from Consensus Bureaucracies and regulatory control systems undermine important social innovations such as person-centred…
Inspiration: 24.10.19 Inclusion Press Jack Pearpoint, Lynda Kahn and Cathy Hollands have recently updated the Inclusion Press website and are keen to share…
Article: 23.10.19 When in doubt ask the children Young people are our best resource, Colin Newton of Inclusive Solutions shares 6 simple steps to encourage inclusion.
Article: 25.01.19 AIREA - Beyond Planning AIREA is an inclusive retreat which brings together people to find energy and direction for personal and collective…
Paper: 03.05.18 Now and Next The innovative leadership pipeline for families with young children with disability or delay developed by Plumtree.
Article: 10.08.16 Asking Better Questions Lindsay Tighe believes that if we make some simple changes to the way we communicate with each other, we enable human…
Article: 15.07.15 Supporting Staff in Person-Centred Work Sam Sly explores how to support staff in person-centred services when money is tight.
Paper: 08.01.14 The Trouble With Person-Centred Planning John O'Brien, one of the innovators who developed person-centred planning, reflects on the trouble that comes as…
Paper: 30.09.13 Supporting Community Contribution and Self-Determination through Person-Centred Work John O'Brien presented this paper at Finland's Valta virtaa conference held in June 2013.
Film: 18.05.13 Person-Centred vs System-Centred with Beth Mount This film by Open Future Learning with Beth Mount explores Person-Centred vs System-Centred planning.
Paper: 03.05.13 Our Direction Is Our Destination Veena Vasista asks how do we – the people - lead ourselves to become more connected with our power, our voice and…
Reviews: 06.10.11 Citizenship & Person-Centered Work Edited by John O'Brien & Carol Blessing, leaders of the inclusion movement share their invaluable learning.
Graphic: 25.01.11 Five Basic Tasks The core competencies of any agency aiming to support people who are at risk social exclusion and devaluation
Paper: 06.11.10 Individual Service Design This paper which describes the process by which we can design personalised support for ourselves or those we care…
Graphic: 01.08.10 Pull Economics Instead of pushing resources that we think are useful towards them Push Economics proposes that people are enabled to…
Inspiration: 15.07.10 Individual Service Design Individual service design is the creative development of high quality supports to achieve full and active…
Slide: 05.06.10 Individual Service Design Slides exploring how to create individual service designs.
Inspiration: 01.05.10 Personal Planning It is sometimes useful to have a plan and sometimes local bodies may seek to confirm the competence of people with…
Graphic: 01.08.09 Individual Budget An individual budget is one approach to enabling people to take more control of their own support - by giving people…
Graphic: 01.08.09 Creativity in Design Creativity in design requires (a) positive imagination (b) the ability to look outward for possibilities (c) focus on…
Graphic: 01.08.09 Personalised Support Personalised Support is a system for designing and organising around the needs of the individual.
Graphic: 01.08.09 Personal Plan Plans should be personal - and they should integrate care, support, education or whatever else people need to plan for.