Person-Centered Planning: Choosing the Approach that Works for the Person

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Person-centered planning is not one defined process, but a range or continuum of processes all
underpinned by the same values base and goal – to provide supports necessary to assist people to gain
agency in their lives. – Valerie Bradley

Here’s an excerpt from this excellent NCAPPS article. You can find it here. “Over the past several decades
since person-centered planning was first introduced, several formats have been developed to provide
tools and a structure for the process such as PATH, MAPS, Personal Futures Planning, Essential Lifestyle Planning,
and Charting the LifeCourse. Each of these approaches anticipates the need to respond to a significant life event
such as transition from school to adulthood, retirement, movement into employment or supported housing, and other major life changes.”