Person-Centered Training Services With a Mindful Approach
Person-Centered Thinking goes beyond a mindset.
It's a skill set.
Changing how we think is essential to achieving Person-Centered Practices. If people are going to gain or regain positive control over their lives, then those supporting the person need to have a person-centered approach and mindset. This begins with how we think.
Person-Centered Thinking is the foundational mindset that enables those who support others to deliver services that are organized and consistent with Person-Centered Practices.
Person-Centered Thinking Training
Person-Centered Coach Training
Person-Centered Thinking Trainer
Electronic
Person-Centered Description
Easily create continuity of support with this web-based record of essential human information about the person.
Real Results from Person-Centered Thinking Training
“I just wanted to let you know that yesterday I did an activity with a person I support where I asked her the “7 questions you should be able to answer for each person you support.” And the feedback I received from her was powerful.
I’ve been working with her for about 4 months now, and that was the most she’s opened up. She even shared a situation from the past which gave her a lot of relief. So I just wanted to say thank you for the awesome training, and I am looking forward to using different PCT strategies!
Hope this story proves useful in broadcasting your training and its ability to be effective.”
– E.R., PCT Training Student
Person-Centered Practices represent the ideal methodology of delivering services and supports that respect the person’s autonomy and promotes a life of their own choosing in their own community
Whether it is because of a disability from birth, accident, or just the aging process, at some point, we may all need support from others. However, this can lead to a loss of positive control or autonomy in our lives. Person-Centered Practices help ensure the person remains the focus of these supports. We all want to retain our autonomy. We want a life of our choosing, lived out in a place of our choosing, surrounded by people of our choosing.
Improving The Quality of Life
- Balancing personal choice with personal responsibility by establishing and maintaining things that are important to the person with things that are important for the person
- Being integrated into one’s community so that the person is known and respected for her or his contributions
- Being respectfully communicated with as a person, using language consistent with being a typical adult as opposed to using clinical or system language
- Receiving support that is consistent so that new staff and others know and respect the person’s values and choices, as well as how others can help the person
- Being matched with staff, housemates, or others so that life is more enjoyable
About the Curriculum
IntellectAbility has partnered with TLCPCP to provide tools and training that empower, educate, and inform those responsible for protecting, maintaining, and restoring health, wholeness, and good quality of life.
For a more detailed look at the Curriculum, please contact us below!
Meet Our Trainers
Our Person-Centered Services Mentor and Trainers are all credentialed with The Learning Community for Person-Centered Practices and deliver this curriculum.
When you successfully complete any of these trainings with IntellectAbility, you will be officially recognized with The Learning Community.
Patrick Lane
PCT Mentor & Trainer
David Toback
PCT Mentor & Trainer
David has nearly 16 years of experience working in the field of Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities. He has worked both at the provider level and the state level as a training and project manager for GA Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities (DBHDD). David has experience in transition initiatives for those moving from institutional to community settings and also worked as a SIS interviewer for many years. He is a certified Person-Centered Practices Mentor and Person Centered Thinking Trainer by The Learning Community for Person-Centered Practices.
Debra Davis
PCT Trainer
Johnathon Crumley
PCT TRAINER
Stacey Ramirez
PCT TRAINER
Frequently Asked Questions
If offered live and onsite, this training takes 12-hours, spread over two days.
If delivered live via Zoom, this training takes 18-hours. Typically, this training is delivered over 3 consecutive, six-hour days, but is also available to custom scheduling based on client preferences.
Yes. The Learning Community Curriculum is consistent with CMS Person-Centered Standards.
IntellectAbility provides all materials for onsite PCT Training. Clients are only responsible for finding an acceptable meeting space conducive to training. Clients may also wish to provide refreshments for attendees.
For virtual PCT Training, pre-training preparation is required and is coordinated by IntellectAbility’s Service Support Representative ensuring all participants join with the necessary hardware, software, documents, and understand expectations.
Yes. IntellectAbility offers ongoing support to all who have completed any Person-Centered Service offered on-site or virtually, including Person-Centered Thinking.
Yes. IntellectAbility offers a certificate of completion with a unique identifier number. This certificate and a record of completion is also kept electronically for reference later if needed.
Yes. The PCT Training works effectively to support all kinds of PCT planning resources such as: Facilitation Planning, Maps, Profiles, Charting the Life-Course and others.
Yes, IntellectAbility’s Person-Centered Services Mentor works with qualified Trainer-Candidates to develop PCT Trainers that meet the high standards of the Learning Community.