Shifting the pattern in how we work with individuals and families. . .

Who is the partnership training for?

• For disabled adults

• For parents of disabled children

• It is for people who want to make things betterand improve the way things are for disabled children and adults.

What will it include?

• Issues about disabilities

• Meet with people who can help to change services e.g. Managers

• Information and training to help you learn and gain confidence to speak up for yourself and your rights

The main programme sessions will consist of the following:

• History of planning in services.

• The recent whitepaper “Valuing People” main objectives including current DOH guidance and requirements of Partnership board frameworks.

• Personalisation / what does it mean.

• Principles and the foundations of person centred planning and understanding the facilitation role and power.

• Support planning and individualised budgets

• Circles of support

• Implementing PCP. Person centred reviews for all, Health action planning.

• Brief awareness sessions in :

  • Innovative supported employment.
    
  • Direct Payments. Personalisation, paths to citizenship.
    
  • Housing choice and support. Employment, community mapping.

• Keeping learning and development shaping local services.

• Capacity building, live planning across communities

• Coaching, peer advocacy, action learning.

Content

The teams of participants for the programme will be formed ,via individuals and their families. Various service personnel across services will be consulted as to which families and individuals were either requesting a Person Centred Plan or wished to have more knowledge about the developments of personalisation. The service staff will then recruit to participate on the course based on their roles and responsibilities.

The service staff will be then recruited to participate on the course based on their professional connection with the individual and families, thus the teams should be diverse in the level of service personnel, which attended the programme.

This programme is an innovative way for services to deliver training, and show great benefits for completing the recruitment of participants in this way. The benefits will include people who use service being able to attend the training sessions and being able to directly make amendments to the programme, depending on their individual needs.

Families are central to the training and useful to learn and plan together with service staff rather than separately as is done traditionally.  Training and learning with families and individuals results greater insight to the needs and wants, and will gave live examples of how to facilitate plans that focus on people working together. Often training tells rather than shows. This approach is found to be particularly useful for knowing the “HOW” to implement a PCP rather than just “WHAT” a PCP is.

It is suggested that the programme will consist of 7 modules over 2 years. Building towards Leadership for change.

It is an exciting practical programme, designed to enable Organizations become more person centred and responsive to the people they support.  

The research encourages Organizations to invest in practical person centred thinking skills for managers, linking learning to organisational changes and investing in facilitators/coaches.

The programme aims to achieve the following outcomes:

The people supported in your organization will have better lives as those who support them are more empowered to listen and act on what they hear. Families will be essential partners in developing what happens locally.

Research

During the programme, research will need to be undertaken from the individual participants as to what may help or hinder training, facilitation and implementation.

If you are interested in this or would like more information please contact Pauline @ Pauline.Doyle@nwtdt.com