“As a society if we take advantage of the opportunities this crisis has given us, we can come out of this pandemic nightmare to a more disability-friendly world. Our so called “normal” world prior to COVID-19 was not great for a lot of us in the disability community. The time for systems change is during the pandemic, not after it’s over.”
NCAPPS Person-Centered Advisory (PAL) group coordinator, Nicole LeBlanc, shares her reflections on how the COVID-19 pandemic has been impacting the disability community, and prompts us to take this crisis as an opportunity for improvement and innovation. Read her full reflection here.
Training competent direct support professionals (DSPs) and maintaining the DSP workforce can greatly influence quality of life for people with disabilities who receive long-term services and supports. This issue brief prepared by Valerie Bradley discusses considerations for ensuring a training regimen will increase direct support staff expertise and improve the quality of services and supports.
This resource, which builds from foundational approaches to person-centered planning and the 2020 National Quality Forum Person-Centered Planning and Practice Final Report, describes five skill areas, or domains, that facilitators should possess to support a fully person-centered planning process: A. Strengths-Based, Culturally Informed, Whole Person-Focused; B. Cultivating Connections Inside the System and Out; C. Rights, Choice, and Control; D. Partnership, Teamwork, Communication, and Facilitation; and E. Documentation, Implementation, and Monitoring.
Developed as part of NCAPPS technical assistance, this Self-Assessment is designed to help leadership at human service agencies in States, Tribes, and Territories to measure their progress in developing a more person-centered system. It contains questions about observable practices across eight system domains: Leadership; Person-Centered Culture; Eligibility & Service Access; Person-Centered Service Planning & Monitoring; Finance; Workforce Capacity & Capabilities; Collaboration & Partnership; and Quality & Innovation.
NCAPPS PAL Group Coordinator, Nicole Leblanc, has a new publication which we are releasing on the NCAPPS website.
NCAPPS subject matter experts have created a tool – the Health Care Person-Centered Profile – to communicate a person’s wants and needs if they are hospitalized without the direct support of their caregivers, family, neighbors, or friends. Visit our COVID-19 Resources page to download the tool, instructions, and examples.
Nicole LeBlanc, NCAPPS Person-Centered Advisory and Leadership Group Coordinator, developed a lessons-learned guide to help make virtual meetings more accessible for all.