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The Moth Project


“Every family member has a story.”

Here are a few of the amazing family members who took part in our collaborative project with “The Moth.” These parents had stories to spare!

It was an absolute privilege and a gift to be able to spend time with these parents. Amazing people. Plus we got something we did not expect. We did not get the story of their children, we got the story behind the story, we got “their” story. Intriguing, moving, and one of the best learning experiences I have ever had. Later this year we will be putting together a module to showcase some of these stories. The module will help support professionals to do a better job of relating to, understanding, and working with the families of the people we support. – Ben

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Do the Write Thing

We are excited to announce the release of our newest module Do the Write Thing.

Behind every word we write, there is a person. But paperwork is loathed by almost every support professional in the field of human services. What if we could change the way we document? Join us as we make ‘paperwork’ become ‘people work.’

John Raffaele is passionate about documentation.  John starts the module by detailing the basics of creating professionally produced and meaningful documentation.  John goes on to introduce the person-centered approach of wiring with people instead of for them.  This module includes video presentations from John Raffaele, Janice Bartley, and Kathie Snow.

On successful completion of this module, you will be able to:

– Appreciate documentation as a competency and a skill.

– Understand the importance of and be able to apply practical strategies to ensue legible, accurate, respectful, concise, confidential, and meaningful documentation.

– Explain why paperwork is people work.

– Describe and apply the concept and process of documenting with people, know as partnership documentaion.

– Understand the importance of support the development of a good relationship with the person’s primary care doctor.

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Something different…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6OIrXGwk4o

In this film Beth Mount explains how Person-Centered work differs from System-Centered. System-centered planning comes from the idea that the people we support are defined and treated through the idea of what the system needs in order to run efficiently. The system believes it is their job to “fix” people so they define and create a treatment plan and hope to get it correct before even meeting the people who they support and for who these systems are put in place for. A major contrast to that is person-centered planning. People don’t belong to systems; they belong to themselves, their families, and their communities. If we can see them in a different light, in the capacities that they can bring to a community, then our thinking shifts dramatically from how to fit people into a system to how do we support people to live good lives in communities. Furthermore how do we take things we need from systems and services and use them in a more responsive way.