Person-Centered Planned
Interactive Person-Centered Planning-Training for Nonprofits Community Organizations and the Faith-Based Community in New Jersey and Nationwide.
The most effective service plans are built with people, not simply for them. Person-Centered Planning is not just a service delivery method. It is a philosophy that fundamentally shifts how organizations define, design, and deliver individualized care. Pringle's Training Services, based in Newark, NJ, offers this essential training to help your organization embrace that transformative shift and make it a consistent daily practice.
Too many service plans are built around system requirements rather than the actual goals, priorities, and voice of the individual. Dr. Theresa Pringle H.C. developed this training to address that critical gap with clarity and compassion. The principle is simple and powerful: Make It Make Sense. CHANGE THE MINDSET. CHANGE THE OUTCOME. Planning that centers the individual consistently produces better outcomes, stronger engagement, and more sustainable change for the people you serve.
What This Training Is About
"Person-Centered Planned" provides participants with a thorough and practical foundation in person-centered planning philosophy, intention, and real-world application. The training begins by defining what person-centered planning truly is and distinguishing it from traditional, system-driven approaches to service design. Participants explore the core intention of this framework and the specific outcomes it is built to produce when applied with consistency and genuine fidelity. The training then moves into a fully interactive simulation that places participants in both the role of service planner and the role of individual being planned for. This powerful dual-perspective experience deepens empathy, sharpens facilitation skills, and builds a genuine understanding of what person-centered practice requires in the real world.
What You Will Learn
- The foundational principles and values that define genuine person-centered planning practice
- How to facilitate a person-centered planning conversation that honors individual voice, choice, and self-determination
- How to identify and build on individual strengths, goals, preferences, and unique support needs
- How to create and document a service plan that truly and accurately reflects the individual it represents
- What the interactive simulation reveals about the planning experience from the individual's perspective
- A clear and replicable process for producing meaningful, individualized, and effective service plans every time
Key Outcomes and Takeaways
Your team will leave with a strong, practical, and immediately applicable person-centered planning framework. Staff will feel measurably more confident and competent as facilitators and collaborative partners in the planning process. Organizations will see improved trust, stronger engagement, and better service outcomes with the individuals they serve. Every participant receives a certificate of completion from Pringle's Training Services upon finishing this training session.
Session Format and Availability
Available as a 90-minute workshop, lunch-and-learn, half-day session, or multi-session series. Offered in person in Newark, NJ, and virtually for organizations statewide, nationwide, and internationally.
Who Should Attend
Case managers, social workers, program coordinators, direct service staff, and supervisors who oversee individual planning processes. Nonprofit agencies, faith-based service providers, shelters, and community organizations developing individualized plans for the people they serve should enroll. Any organization that wants to align its services more authentically with the voices and goals of the individuals it supports should register today.
Phone: (973) 996-8212
Serving Newark, NJ | Essex County | Union County | Hudson County | All of New Jersey | Available Nationally and Internationally
