Resources for Person-centered Planning

This page provides a listing of person-centered resources for waiver participants, their families, friends, and advocates.

Topic Areas:

• Waiver participants
• Person-centered resources
• Self-Determination
• Self-Advocacy
• Supported Decision Making
• Language
• Person-centered care
• Frequently Asked Questions

Videos:

Self-Advocate: My Life, My Plan

Self-Advocates: What is Person-centered planning? (Minnesota Governor's Council on Developmental Disabilities)

Waiver Participants

Links to information for people in Medicaid waiver programs or interested in accessing waiver programs.

• Medicaid Information
• SC Thrive - agency to connect you with various resources
• Austism Spectrum Disorder Services
• Division of Long Term Living [formerly Community Long Term Care (CLTC)] waiver information 
• Department of Disabilities and Special Needs (DDSN)
  • Waiver Fact Sheets:
  • Intellectual Disability and Related Disabilities Waiver
  • Community Supports Waiver
  • Head and Spinal Cord Injury Waiver
• Personal Planning Toolkit (English and Spanish)

Person-centered Resources

Links to information on what person-centered planning is to help waiver participants

• Personal Planning Toolkit (English and Spanish)
• Family Helpful Hints Guide (English and Spanish)
• The Person Centered Planning Education Site
• The Learning Community for Person Centered Planning
• Helen Sanderson Associates:
  • Person-centered thinking tools
  • Sorting Important To/Important For
  • Good Day/Bad Day
  • What's Working/Not Working
  • Decision Making Profile
• Inclusion
• National Parent Center on Transition and Employment
  • Person-centered Planning
• Research and Training Center on Community Living
• The Arc Center for Future Planning
• Citizen-Centered Leadership
• Imagine

Self-Determination

Links to resources to help people make their own choices

• This is Your Life! Creating your Self-Directed Life Plan
• Self-Determination Tools
• I'm Determined Project

Self-Advocacy

Links to resources on how you can speak up for yourself

• Able SC Services for Adults
• Able SC's Youth Self-Advocacy
• AccessAbility Services
• IMPACT - statewide self-advocacy group
• Disability Rights South Carolina
• Walton Options Services
• National Resource Center for Self-Advocacy

For Students and the Individualized Education Program (IEP) Process:

• Able South Carolina
• AccessAbility
• Family Connection of South Carolina - education resources
• Disability Rights South Carolina
• South Carolina Autism Society
• The Arc of South Carolina
• Transition Alliance of South Carolina
• Walton Options
• I'm Determined Project

Supported Decision Making

Links to resources on how people can create a support network to help with important life decisions

• The SC Supported Decision Making Project
• National Resource Center for Supported Decision-Making
• The Jenny Hatch Justice Project
• Supported Decision Making Teams
• How to Make a Supported Decision-Making Agreement

Language

Links to information on appropriate language for people with disabilities

• The Arc - What is People First Language?
• Texas Council for Developmental Disablities - People First Language
• Center for Disease Control and Prevention - People First Language
• Pacer Center - Person-First Language
• Adapted from the National Disability Rights Network - Proper Disability Terminology

Person-centered Care

Links to information on person-centered care in a clinical or hospital setting

• National Nursing Home Quality Improvement Campaign
• The Person-Centered Approach to Behavioral Health Care
• Psychiatric News - Psychiatry Embraces Patient-Centered Care
• The International Journal of Person Centered Medicine
• Institute for Healthcare Improvement - Person and Family-Centered Care
• University of Buffalo - Institute for Person-Centered Care