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Goal setting focuses on a person’s strengths, abilities, and aspirations. It’s objectives are to identify concrete actions and supports within and beyond the provider agency to result in positive change. This process is guided by the person and should reflect their desires.
Being Person-Centred
Outcomes are important, but secondary to the process of care giving and community making. Being person-centred in our thinking toward the development of individual plans is what leads to real change in one’s life.
Tools to Facilitate Setting Personal Goals and Outcomes
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Person-Centred Approach to Risk
Developed by Helen Sanderson and Associates, this approach takes the principles of person-centred thinking and person-directed planning and focuses on people’s rights to have the lifestyle that they choose. Person-centred approaches are used to help people and those who care about them most think in a positive and productive way about the risk. The process gathers the fullest information and evidence to demonstrate that there has been in-depth thought about all the issues involved.
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Planning Alternative Tomorrows with Hope (PATH)
Developed by John O’Brien, Marsha Forest, and Jack Pearpoint, this is an approach using graphics and other methods to help people find direction and build strengths.
PATH can be used as a planning style with individuals and with organisations. When used in person-centred planning, the focus person and the people he/she wants to invite meet together with two facilitators to work through the process.
PATH works well when an individual has a group of people around them who are committed to making things happen. Using the PATH process enables people to understand and take control of the situation.
