While written some thirty years ago this piece, by Michael Smull and Susan Burke Harrison, is a classic and one of the first pieces written about person-centered planning and thinking in action. It deserves a read or reread. The handbook presents the tools needed to develop better community capacity to support people with “severe reputations.’ For reader convenience, it’s divided into four components:
• How people receive their reputations;
• How to plan with the individual for community services;
• How to recruit and develop the supports needed to implement the plan; and,
• How to avoid the most common abuses and perversions in providing supports.
From the forward: “This handbook is dedicated to the memory of Jerry Kiracofe and Katie Johnson. Jerry Kiracofe introduced us to person centered planning and always helped us to stay focused on the underlying values. Katie Johnson taught us how to listen to people who do not speak for themselves.”