Articles  

Here are some general interest articles about Essential Lifestyle Planning, other topics and Example Plans.

A Plan is not Enough - Exploring the Development of Person Centred Teams - This chapter identifies critical issues in the implementation of essential lifestyle planning, within a team supporting two people with profound and multiple learning disabilities.  A version of this chapter apprears in 'Person Centred Planning. Research, Practice and Future Directions' edited by Steve Holburn and Peter M. Vietza, 2002 Paul Brooks

Person Centred Teams - "Some of the fundamental principles of person centred planning are that we involve people in all decisions about their life, build on their existing skills and interests, identify what support they need and provide it. Developing person centred teams extends those principles to staff"

Essential Lifestyle Planning and Active Support - This article briefly describes Person Centred Planning (PCP) and Active Support (AS), and begins to explore how elements from each approach can be used together

Positive Rituals and Quality of Life - was written in 1993 and is now one of the timeless classics.

‘It’s my meeting’: Finding ways to involve people with high support needs in person centred planning - This article explores how we can include people in one aspect of person centred planning, having meetings. The article also looks at what self-advocates from People First say should happen, and what this means in practice for people with high support needs.

Reviewing other people's plans - a checklist for family mentors was written to assist families in reviewing plans developed by others regarding a relative.

Crisis in the Community is the mother of all M. Smull classics. This 1989 reprint (a pdf file) looks to have laid the groundwork for what would become Essential Lifestyle Planning.

See What I'm Saying is about Katherine Dumas who is an activist with a mission. The trouble is, up until recently most people haven't gotten the message.

Thinking About Support Broker Roles is an article from the Winter 2000 issue of Impact Magazine.

Standing with Jon was written by Claudia Bolton and Michael about the challenges and the pleasure of working with John Hall.

Moving from supported living to a supported life.

Support service brokerage by Michael Smull and Gary Smith.

Helping staff support choice.

The importance of partnerships.

Full inclusion and the value of students with severe disabilities.

Example Plans

Here are some example planning documents.
Janes ELP and Janes Action Plan should be read together.
Kaths ELP is an annotated plan that explains the different sections in the plan.