Person Centered Planning

Person Centered Planning (PCP) is a discovery process that identifies the strengths, desires and hopes of an individual with a disability. This vital information provides a foundation for the future. Together, the individual with a disability, their family members and service providers in the community work toward a positive, possible and desirable future.

Provide Care for Life assists in this planning by facilitating a unique “person-centered plan” that uses an inspired tool called Making Action Plans (MAPs). MAPs helps an individual plan his or her life, and it requires a support team who will continue to gather, organize and manage information for the desired future.

MAPs is accomplished by listening, really listening. The role of the caring facilitator from Provide Care for Life is to create a secure environment where others pay careful attention to the hopes and ideas of the person with disabilities.

A series of eight important questions is designed to assist individuals and support teams to dream, plan and produce results which help people create quality lives for themselves and others. The process is powerful when it is facilitated by a knowledgeable person.

“The questions stretch the boundaries that we often think within,” said Dawn Zibricky, founder of Provide Care for Life. “They help us to look at individual gifts and strengths which, in turn, identify what a person needs to reach their dreams.”

The future vision and action plan continues to develop over time. Implementation of the plan depends on the commitment and partnership of the support team and the individual with the disability.

The facilitators at Provide Care for Life can help your support team get started by providing the MAP process.