Person-Centered eTool Suite

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This one-of-a-kind, web-based platform provides three powerful tools to ensure an effective and efficient way for supporters to ensure reliable, person-centered information is seamlessly incorporated into annual plans, daily support efforts, and is readily available to new staff getting to know the person.

Our Person-Centered Thinking eLearn, electronic Person-Centered Description (ePCD), and One Page Description (1PD) are interoperable, online training and tools hosted on one web-based platform, designed to help supporters capture, record, and build person-centered knowledge for the people their organization supports.

How It Works

1) Staff utilize the techniques and skills they acquired in Person-Centered Thinking Training to collect person-centered information effectively.

2) They input the information they learned about the person into the electronic Person-Centered Description (ePCD) platform.

3) Staff who have completed the PCT Training may access and edit the ePCD as necessary. Staff who complete the built-in PCT eLearning course may view the ePCD.

Electronic Person-Centered Description (ePCD)

Great For: All staff throughout any organization, big or small

Prerequisite: All users may view electronic Person-Centered Descriptions, but they must complete the virtual Person-Centered Thinking Training to edit them.

What is the Electronic Person-Centered Description (ePCD)?

The Person-Centered Description (PCD) is the center of the Person-Centered Thinking Training and is used to capture knowledge about the person, record it, and build on it.

We’ve taken what was once just a paper document and created a one-of-a-kind, web-based version allowing staff to easily access and input essential information about the person to inform supports and planning. When completed, it is a roadmap to daily support the person, helping to balance what is Important To and For them.

The ePCD is an effective way to ensure reliable person-centered information is incorporated into annual plans, daily support efforts, and available to new staff getting to know who a person is.

All staff can access vital person-centered information about the person in real time

Learning about the person is captured and expandable
Information in ePCDs helps ensure the annual plan is person-centered
Information is interoperable with other data systems

Objective: The ePCD provides easily accessible, consistent, and reliable person-centered information about the people your agency supports, ensuring continuity of care and support.

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Built-in Person-Centered Thinking eLearn Course

If users have not completed the 3-day Virtual Person-Centered Thinking Training, they must complete a short eLearn course to view these web-based person-centered tools. This course teaches fundamental person-centered thinking techniques and skills to quickly understand and utilize the information in the Person-Centered Descriptions they are viewing.

One of the more frustrating realities for staff and the person supported is how hard-earned information and learning about the person is easily lost. You’ve seen it time and again. Information painstakingly learned about the person in the effort to be person-centered is lost each time a staff person leaves or is replaced.

For more information on the Person-Centered Thinking eLearn course modules, click here.

One Page Description (1PD)

Great For: All supporters

Prerequisite: All users may view One-Page Descriptions, but they must complete the virtual Person-Centered Thinking Training to edit them.

What is a One Page Description (1PD)?

The One Page Description is an at-a-glance, positive source of information about the person. It is one of the most effective ways to change how we talk about and introduce a person to others. Again, we have taken what was once only paper and created a one-of-a-kind, web-based version.

It contains key elements of the ePCD and requires at least three main components:

What people Like and Admire about the person
What is most Important To the person
How to Best Support the person

How is it used? A One Page Description can be used with anyone of any age and at any stage of life. It is a simple, quick, and effective way to inform others about what matters most to the person, all with person-centeredness at its core.

Help their new doctor, staff person, case manager, or employer get to know them better as a person

Facilitate matching the person up with the ideal roommate or staff person based on their personality and what’s Important To them
Assist them in finding that perfect job
Help them find that “special someone” and subsequently help that person get to know them better

Objective: Easily and effectively ensure the person is viewed positively by supplying essential information on one page and creating a picture of the person based purely on who they are, not their disability, diagnosis, or limitations.