Person-Centered Thinking & Person-Centered Planning

What is Person-Centered Thinking?

An evolution in human services, person-centered thinking (PCT) helps organizations worldwide to succeed by fully integrating people in their own social care - not as a problem to be "fixed," but as the best source for identifying interests, preferences and desires that, when integrated into their own social care, can lead to positive control over a full and meaningful life. 

Person-Centered Thinking is a set of values, skills and tools used in Person-Centered Planning and in the personalization of services used by people who need supports provided by social or health care. Person-Centered Thinking is commonly described as “the foundation of person centered planning.”

What is Person-Centered Planning?

Planning from a person-centered perspective seeks to listen, discover and understand the individual. It is a process directed by the person that helps us to learn how they want to live and describes what supports are needed to help them move toward a life they consider meaningful and productive. The planning process empowers the person by building on their individual abilities and skills, building a quality lifestyle that supports the person in finding ways to contribute to their community.

Person-Centered Planning and Practice Resource Library

In 2019, the NY Alliance partnered with Public Consulting Group (PCG) on a three-year New York State Department of Health Person- Centered Planning Statewide Training Initiative.  NY Alliance supports this initiative by providing distinguished person-centered trainers and faculty members to further the promotion of person first. A deliverable of this initiative was the creation of a Person-Centered Planning and Practice Resource Library. The library is a colleaction of free resources on person-centered planning and practice across all Home and Community-Based Services service sectors in New York State.

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