Person Centered Planning:
Self Advocacy
Who Is in Charge of Your Meeting?
CWA Conference, 2016
Sacramento, CA
Presenters:
Sue Sawyer
Vicki Shadd
January 13, 2016
Session 3 of 3 in Series
Welcome
A Certificate will be issued to individuals who complete all three of these Sessions
The Certificate will document you have participated in three introductory workshops
Introduction to Serving Youth with Disabilities Certificate
Issued by the California Transition Alliance
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Effective Outreach to Youth with Disabilities and Interagency Collaboration
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Competitive Integrated Employment and Accommodations in the Work Place
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Person Centered Planning: Self Advocacy and Student Lead Meetings
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Powerpoints for each session will be posted on the CA Transition Alliance website
(www.catransitionalliance.org) February 1, 2016
Person Centered Planning
The Challenge
Help Youth Achieve Employment by Engaging
Them in the Planning Process
Whose Plan is the Employment Plan Created
by your agency?
Person Centered Planning
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What does it mean?
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Known by many names?
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Why is it important?
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Can you identify a youth you have worked with who has a
disability?
When you hear the Person Centered Plan
Assets
Work
Experience
Diploma
Poverty
Juvenile
Justice
Expectations
Peers
School
/ Agency
Family
Poverty
Expectations
School
/ Agency
Expectations
Disability
Delayed
Adulthood
Peers
Stress
Have you met this youth?
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Definition of Self Advocacy Skills
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Understanding you strengths and needs, identifying your personal goals,
knowing your legal rights and responsibilities and communicating these to
others
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How many youth that you work with are self advocates?
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Where besides schools and agencies do they need to use self advocacy skills?
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Developing the plan with the youth is an opportunity to teach, enhance and
apply self advocacy skills
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How many issues on the following charts impact the youth’s ability to have the
confidence to advocate for themselves?
Supporting youth in participating and
leading meetings
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When do you require youth to advocate for themselves?
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Other WIOA staff
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In the Community
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At School
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At Work
A Change in Your Practice
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Activity
What Works?
What Services Make the Most Difference
The top ten researched strategies that lead to employment are
Inclusion
in general education – earning a diploma
Occupational
Paid
training
work
Independent
Work-study
Living Skills
programs
Youth Autonomy
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Wrap Up
Information for Series Completers
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