 | A brief introduction to social role valorization: A high order concept for addressing the plight of societally devalued people, and for structuring human services
This book is an updated version of the classic description of "social role valorization" -- the role of people with disabilities in the larger society. |
| A Good Life - For You and Your Relative with a Disability
PLAN's (Planned Lifetime Advocacy Network) inspirational resource guide on long range planning for individuals with disabilities. A Good Life has been written for families, advocates, friends, professionals and care providers |
| A Little Book about Person-Centered Planning
This book has many different chapters by John O'Brien and Connie O'Brien with various issues about person-centered planning. |
| Aging with Intellectual Disabilities and Later-Life Family Caregiving
This chapter, located in volume seven of an eleven-volume set entitled "Comprehensive Clinical Psychology" looks at caregiving of older adults with intellectual disabilities and how aging affects families, services and supports and future planning. |
| Articles on Person-Centered Supports and Quality By Michael J. Kendrick PhD
Writings on person-centered issues and quality from an international leader in the field. |
| Attention: This is Your Life! What Do You Want to Do with It?
This 24 page work book uses pictures and language that is easy to understand. It helps people think about decision making and what they want to do with their lives. It covers topics such as: where to live, jobs, support staff and more. |
| Becoming a Person Centered System
This report explains a systems change initiative. It begins with training DSPs in Person Centered Planning, and leads to changes in how both agencies and service systems do their work. Full text available as a PDF file. |
| Building New Worlds: for Students with Disabilities in Transition from High School to Adult Life
Building New Worlds describes the transition process that students with disabilities and their allies are creating to assure that they will be active participants in family and community life upon graduation from high school. |
| Capacity Works
Capacity Works creates books, worksheet kits and posters for facilitators of person-centered planning meetings. The material is also helpful for the people with disabilities, family members and other support circle members. |
| Communication for Person-Centered Planning
This information pack is for helping staff, self advocates, families and friends communicate better. The aim is to help people who are working in a Person Centered way, to better understand the communication styles of self advocates.
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| Conversations on Citizenship & Person-Centered Work
This book has interviews with the leaders in person-centered planning like Beth Mount, Michael Smull, and Jack Pearpoint. They are asked how they got started and about the values that guide their work. |
| Dare to Dream for Adults
This workbook provides strategies for people with developmental disabilities that help delineate their dreams, desires, and needs in a variety of areas. |
| Discovery Vocational Profiles
An aricle about getting to know a person before helping them plan for their lifes. |
| Elements of Design
An essential overview of person-centered planning, as well as step-by-step methods, tools, and process examples. |
| End-of-life Care: Bridging Disability And Aging With Person Centered Care
A book about end of life care both for people with disabilities and people who are aging. It has real life examples and chapters that are responses to these papers from experts in the field. |
| Essential Lifestyle Planning
A unique form of Person-Centered Planning originally designed for people with challenging behavior . . . |
| Exercise and Nutrition Health Education Curriculum for Adults with Developmental Disabilities
An exercise program designed for adults with developmental disabilities. |
| Families Planning Together
A manual designed to help families develop an essential lifestyle plan with a family member. |
| Five Wishes
Five Wishes is a booklet where you put in writing how you want things handled for you at the end of life. |
| Growing Up: Transition to Adult Life for Students with Disabilities, First Edition
This textbook talks about how schools help students prepare for adult life. |
| HSA Press
HSA Press is a publisher of materials that promote person centered thinking and planning. |
| Human Needs and Intellectual Disabilities: Applications for Person Centered Planning, Dual Diagnosis, and Crisis Intervention
This book is about people with disabilities who have mental illness. |
| I'm Not a Case and I Don't Want to be Managed - Supporting Self-Determination
An article that describes the redefinition of case management in self-determination to support brokerage |
| Implementing Person-Centered Planning: Voices of Experience
A book that presents several ways to think about person-centered planning. The book talks about its limitations, the conditions for its success and its contributions. |
| Inclusion Press
This group has many books and DVDs to help people learn about topics like person-centered planning and social inclusion. |
| Increasing Person Centered Thinking: Improving the Quality of Person-Centered Planning
This manual is for people who want to conduct person-centered planning and for those who want to improve how they do person-centered planning. |
| It's My Choice
A self-guided workbook on person-centered planning. Available as a PDF download on the Internet. |
| Make a Difference: A Guidebook for Person-Centered Direct Support
Guides a Learning Journey that supports action-learning about relationship building, planning with people in a person-centered way, supporting choice, & building community inclusion. |
| Making my own choices
This workbook helps people plan their futures. It is easy to understand. |
| Managing a Special Needs Trust: A Guide for Trustees
This is a guide for anyone who is managing a Special Needs Trust for a person with disabilities.
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| Members of Each Other: Building Community in Company with People with Developmental Disabilities
A book with a strong values-based foundation for providing supports for individuals with disabilities. It is a strong resource about person-centered planning and self-directed supports.
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| More Like a Dance: Whole Life Planning for People with Disabilities
Video and manual about Whole Life Planning |
| My Life Book
This DVD, CD, and activity book use scrapbooking to help families think through and design a plan for the future. |
| One Candle Power: Building Bridges into Community Life for People with Disabilities
A detailed description of the One Candle Power circles concept and implementation. The framework represents the best of what the Communitas team learned about supporting personal, community and organisational change in Connecticut. |
| One Person at a Time
"One Person at a Time" is a book about life stories and agency changes that occur when each person is listened to and supported one person at time. |
| ONE STEP AHEAD: Resource Planning for People with Disabilities Who Rely on Supplemental Security Income and Medical Assistance
This guide offers suggestions to people with disabilities who receive MA and SSI as to ways to have money or property without risk of losing their MA or SSI benefits.
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| Path: 2nd Edition: Planning Positive Possible Futures
A guide to exciting, creative, colorful futures planning for families, organizations and schools to build caring "including" places to live, work and learn. |
| People Planning Ahead: Communicating Healthcare and End-of-Life Wishes
This book and CD help caregivers support someone with end of life issues. |
| Person Centered Planning and Communication of End-Of-Life Wishes With People Who Have Developmental Disabilities (Published in the Journal of Religion, Disability and Health: May, 2005)
This paper is about using person-centered planning with people who have disabilities and are nearing the end of their lives. |
| Person Centered Planning for Later Life: Death and Dying - A curriculum for Adults with Mental Retardation
This training curriculum helps people with mental disabilities understand death and grieving. It includes six lessons lead by a facilitator and a student notebook. Pictures and interactive options, such as field trips to a funeral home, are included. |
| Person-Centered Planning and Outcome Management
A book about outcome management for quality lifestyles |
| Person-Centered Planning for Later Life: A Curriculum for Adults with Mental Retardation
This curriculum helps those with intellectual disabilities to actively plan for their later years. |
| Person-Centered Planning with MAPS and PATH: A Workbook for Facilitators
A workbook for person centered planning training. This book was developed over time as a collection of handouts for the Inclusion Network's three day course teaching MAPS and PATH. |
| Person-Centered Planning: Helping People with Disabilities Achieve Personal Outcomes
New Advancements in Self-determination Planning |
| Person-Centered Planning: Research, Practice, and New Directions
Edited by Steve Holburnn and Peter Vietze, 2002, Brookes Publishing. 18 chapters. Covers qualitative and quantitative research findings, variations on implementation, and suggestions for making person-centered planning effective in service systems. |
| Planning for Real Life
A book about transition from school to work for individuals with disabilities. |
| Planning with Personal Outcomes
Techniques for using Personal Outcomes in planning individual supports and services. |
| Planning with Personal Outcomes Manual
A service planning guide for use by persons with disabilities. |
| Positive Profiles: Building Community Together
A book with activities to help any person in a team planning meeting learn about the focus person's strengths and interests. |
| Reach for the Dream! Developing Individual Service Plans for Persons with Disabilities
This book helps people with disabilities plan for the kind of life they want to live. |
| Real Life Quality Standards
A book that helps people with disabilities think about how satisfied they are with things like where they live and what they do with their friends. It can help people plan for the future. |
| Respectful Relationships and Effective Teaching
This new resource teaches in clear, everyday terms how to interpret behavioral messages from individuals with disabilities whose lives and actions are often misunderstood. |
| Roles Based Planning
A book with tools based on social role valorization and person-centered planning and the differences these tools have made.
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| Safely Home, Profile of a Futures Planning Group
Is community inclusion possible? This book shows how a family found the Futures Planning method and made dreams happen for their son. They hope their story will show methods for effective planning for other families. |
| Satisfaction Guide
This guide and DVD helps people with disabilities tell others what is important to them. |
| The Company of Others
"The Company of Others" addresses ways in which caring relationships can reduce loneliness and isolation. |
| The Future is Now: A Future Planning Training Curriculum for Families and Their Adult Relatives with Developmental Disabilities
This product gives families information about the future legal and financial issues for their adult relative. |
| The Human Rights of Persons with Intellectual Disabilities: Different but Equal
Book discussing the human rights of people with disabilities. |
| The PATH & MAPS HANDBOOK: Person-Centered Ways to Build Community
This handbook strengthens the foundation for PATH and MAPS by connecting it to the work of community building. It suggests some ways that facilitators can improve their practice. It suggests new ways to frame the questions in both PATH and MAPS. |
| The Road Map to the Future: A financial planning guide for families of people with disabilities
This is a user-friendly workbook for families dealing with a variety of issues and considerations when planning a secure financial and happy social future for a relative with a disability. While laws are specific to Saskatchewan, the ideas are universal. |
| The Safeguards Letter
This occasional newsletter has many articles that help readers think about what it's like to be part of the community when you have a disability and receive services.
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| The Support Broker Manual - A Resource Guide
A Support Broker Manual is a 230 page guide developed for people who serve as Support Brokers for people with disabilities. |
| The Way to Work: How to Facilitate Work Experiences for Youth in Transition
A book about the best ways to help young adults with disabilities to find good jobs. It is written for teachers and transition specialists. |
| Training Person-Centered Planning Facilitators: A Compendium of Ideas
This is a manual with formats and resources for training people to
facilitate Person Centered Planning meetings. |
| Using Individual-Centered Planning for Self-Directed Services
A practical guide to planning for consumers, families and service provider organizations containing specific examples and additional resources. |
| We Can Dream!
This booklet explains how the person-centered planning process can be modified for people with autism. It uses the stories of four young adults. |
| What Should We Do for Jay? The Edges of Life and Cognitive Disability
This article asks how and on what grounds you should make end-of-life-decisions for a person with intellectual disability. |
| When People Care Enough to Act
A book and DVD that explains "Asset Based Community Development" (ABCD) organizing principles. These also show best practices in using ABCD to build supports for people with disabilities.
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| Willowbrook Futures Project
This study found that person-centered planning helped people with disabilities have better outcomes than a more traditional service approach. |
| Your Values, My Values
This book describes various ways to support people from different cultures. There are stories about seven people from different cultures, nationalities, and races. Exercises help to learn how to support others with different beliefs and values. |
| Dare to Dream for Adults
This workbook provides strategies for people with developmental disabilities that help delineate their dreams, desires, and needs in a variety of areas. |
| DOING OUR BEST WORK
In this 17-minute video, Peter looks at ten essential components of quality direct support. A video for training and discussion with people providing or coordinating direct support.
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| Facilitation for Inclusion with PATH & MAPS (DVD)
A DVD for facilitators of the PATH & MAPS person-centered program from Inclusion Press. This DVD is meant to be used with the PATH & MAPS Handbook. |
| Future Care Planning: A Roadmap for Family Caregivers
This book guides people through the steps of planning for the future. There are sections for family members and another for people with disabilities. There are many worksheets. |
| Going to College
This website helps students with disabilities get ready for college. There are many activities and sections for parents and for professionals. |
| I Belong Out There
The real life examples in the video and the 16 pages of reproducible printed resources will encourage and motivate staff and people with disabilities to participate and succeed in community activities. An award winning entertaining resource. |
| Inclusion Press
This group has many books and DVDs to help people learn about topics like person-centered planning and social inclusion. |
| It's My Life: Supporting People Through Outcomes
A program on implementing performance-based outcome measures for persons with developmental disabilities. |
| Look Back, Plan Forward
This is a spot to use the web to remember important events that have happened in your life. These can help as you plan for the future. |
| Michael Smull Introduces Person-Centered Thinking Tools
A series of nine videos about person-centered planning. All of the videos can be viewed on YouTube for free. |
| More Like a Dance: Whole Life Planning for People with Disabilities
Video and manual about Whole Life Planning |
| My Life Book
This DVD, CD, and activity book use scrapbooking to help families think through and design a plan for the future. |
| My Lifebook: Future Planning for People with Developmental Disabilities
"My Lifebook" is a DVD/CD and illustrated scrapbook that helps people with developmental disabilities and their families record the past and present, and plan for the future. |
| My Plan
An online planning tool to help create a person centered plan in the areas of home, community, health and work. |
| Partners in Education
This self-directed online course helps parents of children with developmental disabilities understand and maximize the special education system. |
| Partners in Employment
This online course helps people with disabilities improve their skills at finding competitive employment. |
| Peace of Mind for You and Your Relative with a Disability
The Peace of Mind CD-ROM is based on the best selling book, A Good Life for You and Your Relative with a Disability. It contains stories, testimonials, tips and worksheets to help with future and financial planning. |
| People Planning Ahead: Communicating Healthcare and End-of-Life Wishes
This book and CD help caregivers support someone with end of life issues. |
| Potato Video: A Look at Misguided Effort
This 3-minute, lighthearted video looks at "misguided efforts" Uniquely covers 19 common phrases (or attitudes) that can be adjusted to improve the quality of service |
| Real People, Real Jobs: Stories from the Frontline
A website with success stories of people with disabilities working in community jobs. Each story explains how the person found the job, and the supports used in building it into a good job. |
| Satisfaction Guide
This guide and DVD helps people with disabilities tell others what is important to them. |
| Social Role Valorization
This website provides information and some resources about Social Role Valorization (SRV), information about training opportunities and a forum for discussion. |
| The Learning Community for person centered practices
An informal network that seeks to create a community worldwide that shares knowledge about supporting people in having positive control over their lives. |
| The People App
An internet blog that tells true stories of people applying Person Centered Practices. |
| The Puzzle Club: Brain Injury Survivors Talk
This award winning play discusses what it is like to live with a brain injury from the survivor's perspective by sharing the stories of thirteen survivors from Western Montana who have formed a weekly support group called "The Puzzle Club". |
| Think About Your Life
A website that provides person-centered planning tools that are available to use online. |
| Think and Plan
A website that has online person-centered thinking tools. It is for people who have already had training or support in using person centered planning and thinking. |
| Vision of Community
"Vision of Community" is a video-tape that shares the individual support stories of five individuals experiencing life, a choice at a time. |
| Weaving the Ties that Bind
This inspiring, practical on-line course teaches how to build and facilitate social networks for people who are socially isolated. It will help develop your confidence as the facilitator and will introduce you to Tyze, an online social networking site. |
| Whose Life is it Anyway? A Look at Person-Centered Planning & Transition
A CD-ROM is about person-centered planning for transition-aged students. |
| Willowbrook Futures Project
This study found that person-centered planning helped people with disabilities have better outcomes than a more traditional service approach. |
| Angela Amado
Angela Amado has conducted training throughout the U.S., Canada, and also in the Netherlands and Israel on person-centered planning, friendships between people with and without developmental disabilities, community building, self-determination, and per... |
| David Wetherow
Facilitation and training in PATH, person-centered planning, self-determination and community living.
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| George Ducharme
I am a retired professor from Manchester Community College. My gift to give is the ability to facilitate diverse groups, drawing out the very best from each person.
Topics such as Circles of Support,Person Centered Planning, Community Building, Active... |
| Judith A. Snow, MA
I am an advocate for people with disabilities, a social inventor, an inspirational speaker and a person-centered and strategic planner. |
| Pat Fratangelo
Onondaga Community Living (OCL) is an organization that transitioned from providing group home services to personalized services. We provide personalized suports to adults with developmental disabilities in every type of service that we do, whether it ... |
| Patti Scott
I am the CEO and co-founder of Neighbours, Inc, an innovative organization providing self-directed supports to people in New Jersey and Pennsylvania. I regularly provide training and consultation on all aspects of organizational change (moving to self... |
| Ric Crowley
MACROW provides consultation in system change technical asistance and training based on the principles of self-determination at the local, conty and state levels.Quality assurance and individual outcomes are priority areas. |
| Tom Nerney
Together with 17 other Center for Self-Determination Resource Guides we provide training and technical assistance on all aspects of self-determination including: developing highly personal individual budgets and plans; crafting Medicaid waivers that pr... |
