Person-Centered Planning
My Right To Make Choices

Individuals in DSPD services create a Person-Centered Support Plan (PCSP) to help them achieve a good life. Families can participate in Person-Centered Planning activities, with or without DSPD services, to create a vision of a good life using tools from Charting the LifeCourse. We have created a video series that demonstrates how families can use the Life Trajectory, the Life Domain Vision Tool, and the Integrated Supports Star tools to create a vision for a good life for their loved ones with disabilities.

Don’t know where to start? This tried and true six-step process will help you get started with Person Centered Planning.

You have probably heard the saying that “It takes a village to raise a child.” Families may feel that it gets harder to rely on their village as the student reaches the fourteenth year of age—the time when transition planning with the school IEP team starts. This information sheet gives ideas on how to build and strengthen your village to support your youth or adult family member in designing the life he or she wants.

Understanding several key concepts about Person Centered Planning can inspire you with the commitment to accomplish your goals for helping your family member to live the life he or she wants.

It has been said that the best way to address the needs of a person with disabilities is by trying to provide the life he or she wants—in other words to center the process on the hopes wishes and dreams of the person receiving the services.

Our section on hopes, wishes and dreams has ideas on how to support your family member in discovering and communicating his or her wishes about those hard choices and big decisions that come with transition to life as an adult.