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Edition #95 • January 2022
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NCAPPS Shorts:
Culture & Person-Centered Practices
Acknowledging and understanding a person’s racial and cultural identities is essential for providing person-centered supports. But there are few resources that directly address the intersection of culture, language, and identity with person-centered thinking, planning, and practice. For the most part, person-centered planning models and person-centered practices have been developed by white people in a white-dominant culture, with white norms, assumptions, and values. The implications of the “Whiteness” of person-centered practices need to be explored. NCAPPS wants to further this conversation—a conversation that is crucial for systems to build cultural humility and cultural competence into person-centered thinking, planning, and practices.
In a series of short videos, community members from the National Center on Advancing Person-Centered Practices and Systems (NCAPPS) share their thoughts on how their racial and cultural identities shape their expectations and views of support systems.
This week, NCAPPS is releasing the first five videos in the Culture and Person-Practices video series. We will be releasing more videos over the next few weeks. Visit the NCAPPS Shorts webpage linked below to view the videos.
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By Nicole LeBlanc
Advisory Group Coordinator,
National Center on Advancing Person- Centered Practices and Systems
The COVID-19 pandemic has led to big innovations in healthcare, and telehealth has been especially beneficial during this time. Telehealth provides remote medical care over the internet. It is a great way to maintain access to preventive and urgent care while limiting the spread of COVID-19 that comes with traveling to doctors’ offices. The convenience of not having to travel to doctors’ offices is especially important to people with disabilities, given that many of us don’t drive and have transit barriers. And while telehealth is great for things like going over blood test results, in-home medical care is another great way to provide healthcare. Read the complete article here.
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A Workbook for Your Personal Passport
This workbook is for people with developmental disabilities and their friends and families who want to learn more about person-centered planning. When you’re finished filling it out, you can take it to your next planning meeting and share it with your team. Download this pdf fillable workbook here.
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FYI
Many of the foundational documents (e.g., Essential Lifestyle Planning for Everyone, Moving to a system of support: using support brokerage, Person centered planning and perversion prevention) did not make it to the new TLCPCP website. You can find most of them archived here. In particular, the section titled Person Centered Thinking and Planning.
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