SAMHSA's Recovery to Practice Webinar on Person-Centered Planning

This is Step 2 in SAMHSA's  four-part webinar from the Recovery to Practice website.

• Step 1-"Engagement & Outreach"
• Step 2-Person Centered Planning From Theory To Practice
  
• Step 3-"Promoting Recovery Through Psychological and Social Means"
• Step 4-"Graduation"

Note:  If you want to obtain the full webinar you can  Download Webinar and  Download Powerpoint presentation at these links provided.

This is presentation is offered by SAMHSA from their Recovery to Practice Resources  in their webinar: "Step 2 in the Recovery-Oriented Care Continuum:Person-Centered Care Planning"

The webinar was facilitated by Larry Davidson, PhD  of Yale Program for Recovery & Community Health, Department of Psychiatry & Yale University School of Medicine. He shared that the webinar would be focusing on:

• The essential components of an individualized recovery plan
• The principles and practices used to implement the plan
• The role in culture of shaping the plan
• The increased and active role of the partcipant in the development and enactment of the plan
• The way that this planning process differs from previous methods

Janis Tondora PsyD is the Assistant Professor of Dept of Psychiatry Program for Recovery and Community Health, Yale University School of Medicine presented "Person Centered Planning From Theory to Practice" and shared the following:

• Overview of person-centered planning
• Challenging the assumptions person-centered planning is actually occuring
• What We Expect From Them vs What We Expect For Us
• Moving Toward a Recovery-Oriented System
• Our Goal Not to Simply Survive But Thrive
• The Increasing Alignment in Behavioral Health (Ex. Bazelon's "In The Driver's Seat")
• Plans Should Focus on What A Person Really Wants (Beyond attending appointments, med compliance etc...)
• Presented the collaborative process by Adams/Grieder
• Should be directed by participants
• Partnerships with provider and natural supports
• Discussing the key practices of PCP Planning
• Highlighting: The Person-Centered Care Questionnaire
• Key practices in the process of PCP
• Understanding the person is a partner and stressing importance of transparency
• Ex. People should be given advanced notice. Th person has reasonable control (time, who is invited, the education/preparation regarding the process, the person given a written copy of the plan
• The importance of hopeful and strengths-based language as the key practice
• A Useful Tool: "Getting In the Driver's Seat of Your Treatment"
• Stress Strengths-Based, Recovery Oriented Language
• Importance of community inclusion "while" not "after"
• Support human rights and self-determination
• The basic architecture of the document of the PCP Plan
• Sample recovery plan of faith community goal 

Sample Recovery-Oriented Goal

Sample Recovery-Oriented Interventions

OmiSade Ali, MA is the Deputy Commissioner Dept of Behavioral Health & Intellectual disABILITY Services in Philadelphia, PA presented "Person-Centered Care Planning: What's Culture Got to Do With It?" as she shared the following insights:

• What is a good, strengths-based assessmen(including strengths and capacities, nationality and etnicity, sexual orientation, faith and spirituality, gender, gender identity, age and social role)
• Stressing One size should never fit all
• That we should plan based on the culture to the people being served (Ex. LGBT vs Asian)
• Understanding healing in a cultural context
• Cites an example of Native American-lost touch with my spirit animals & called the Indian elder)
• Citing the importance of Person-first issues may impact recovery and resiliency (Ex. Ways to respond in a person-first context Ex.Islamic tradition-Services on Fri-services hours when services are delivered, family's ways of healing, honoring non-traditional families)
• Developing outcomes relevant to the person, family and supporters of 
• Focusing on the individual and the community in which the care is given
• Understanding the individual beyong the mental health or substance use challenge
• Example of questions to ask to detect the cultural context:-What do you call your challenge, and what do you think can help to heal it?-Who is your family? Who do you trust?-What personal pronoun do you use? What would you like to be called? -Have you ever been a member of a faith or spiritual community?
• Sharing we as peers should be "Guides On the Side" to nurture and support

Kimberly Guy is the C-RECS Coach/Educator, Focus on Recovery-United Inc. (FOR-U), Yale Program for Recovery and Community Health & Yale School of Medicine offered a presentation entitled "Finding Your Voice in Person-Centered Care Planning" and shared these insights:

• Sharing her personal journey through her mental health challenges and traditional behavioral health care
• Sharing her struggles in receiving treatment without considerations by practitioners of her as a person apart from her challenges both MH and SA
• Sharing her struggle to refusing medications and her struggle to find her own voice and sense of self
• Sharing the trauma of hospitalization and her coming face-to-face with others in their own trauma
• Sharing how she assumed her own power back and the process of regaining her voice and her sense of self-advocacy
• Recounting the experience of bring a photo album in to share with others what her life was like before her trauma and how a practitioner assisted her in her own transformation by hearing her and valuing her story
• Explained how she became involved in Yale's Person-Centered Planning programs and research
• Shared the importance of developing your own wellness toolkit for your recovery journey
• Sharing photos, her memories and her joys along her own recovery journey and the visible transformation in her weight loss and regainig her sense of self

I found this webinar extremely helpful in hanging a great big question mark to ask ourselves if person-centered planning is really even occuring in NC?...and what we need to do to truly bring peers and practitioners closer to the gold standard of person-centered thinking and planning and ultimately towards a more recovery-0riented system of care in NC.