Person–Centred Approaches

Places still available for PCP facilitator training

Community Options are running a Person Centred Planning two-day facilitator training course from 19-20 Jan 2012, and places are still available.

For full details and booking form, visit the event listing here

Vote for Community Options!

Develop partner Community Options have applied for Natwest’s Community Force Award, to support their Community Choir, Harmony, and ACE, the Artistic Creative Expression drama group.

These groups are aimed at people with mental health needs and support them to have increased confidence, community engagement, make friends and a lot of fun! Harmony & ACE rely on community and charity funding in order to survive.

To see what it does for people, please watch the video testimonials on YouTube at www.youtube.com/communityoptionsltd

To vote, please go to http://communityforce.natwest.com/project/2753

In order to vote you need to register. Once registered you will receive a validation email which will allow you to vote.    

Don't delay, vote today!

Develop announces 21st Birthday Conference and PATH on Person-Centred Planning

This year marks the 21st Birthday of Person-Centred Planning (PCP) being used in mental health services in Bromley! It began during the closure of Cane Hill Hospital during 1989 when a small group met as part of the Positive Futures Programme to consider alternative ways of understanding the needs of those hospital residents who were to move back to Bromley in the next three years. Out of this group developed a system known as Individual Service Review or ISR. ISR was based on John O'Brien's Five Service Accomplishments: Community Presence, Community Participation, Choice & Control, Social Roles & Respect and Competence. Support planning in residential care came next and was developed from ISR in Community Options. PCP facilitator training and supervision was developed as a joint venture involving service users and staff as facilitators. More recently Mind has adopted it as part of their day service modernisation programme. Today we are in the age of Personalisation and Choice and Control figure highly on that agenda too. PCP principles underscore brokerage and support planning.

To celebrate this long history and to bring everyone together and up to date with each others' approaches, the Developing Valued Lifestyles Partnership is inviting you to a conference and PATH event on Person-Centred Planning in Bromley on June 14th at Community House. The day will be facilitated by a long standing colleague of ours, Peter Bates (pictured right), who has recently conducted training for Oxleas and several PATH events for the London Borough of Bromley on Personalisaion. Peter will be joined by Pen Mendonca for the PATH Event. Pen, who has worked with Peter on similar events for Oxleas and LBB, will act as the Graphic Recorder for the PATH.

The conference will showcase two pieces of local research on PCP and the personal experience of developing one's own plans with facilitation. There will also be workshops by local practitioners to share practice and think about further developments. The PATH event will take up the afternoon session.
 
The whole day is being co-sponsored by Bromley Mind, Community Options and Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust. We recognize the austerity of the times and have managed to arrange this event with lunch and refreshments for the very reasonable fee of £30. There are some reserved free places for service users who are not working. Applications from Bromley will get priority but you are welcome to apply from other boroughs if this work is of interest to you and we will do our best to accommodate you or hire a bigger hall if the event proves very popular!
We look forward to receiving your application.

Event details and booking form

Develop Community Participation Project: Update

The Social Exclusion Unit (2004) report on mental health found that adults who have experienced mental health problems are amongst the most socially excluded
individuals in society.

Person-Centred Planning and Community Bridge Building are ways in which social exclusion can be tackled....

Read full report here