Person centered planning is learning how people want to live, about what is important to someone in everyday life and discovering someone might want to live in the future. However, as Michael Smull has said, “a plan is not an outcome.” And as Helen Sanderson has said “Outcomes describe the specific things that the person will do over a 2-3 year period to help them achieve their long term aspirations.” Learn more about plans and outcomes from Michael Smull (download here) and writing person-centered outcomes (download here).