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Invitations
Families sometimes ask us how they should go about inviting people to the person-centred planning session. We suggest that people think about who they want to attend, and what approach would work for this particular group. Some people want to send out written invitations. These, of course, should say what the family or individual young person feel to be appropriate. However we have provided three example invitations here to help people to get started - each is available as a 'pdf' file (which should look right but can't be edited) and a 'doc' file (which can be edited but may have mixed up formatting). Even if invitations are by phone these might help in thinking what to say:
- Invitation 1 (pdf file)
- Invitation 1 (doc file)
- Invitation 2 (pdf file)
- Invitation 2 (doc file)
- Invitation 3 (pdf file)
- Invitation 3 (doc file)
Video clips
Often people who have not experienced a person-centred planning session don't appreciate that the session can feel positive, informal, motivating, and so on. The two video clips below demonstrate this well (decent video clips of person-centred planning are difficult to find because each session is private and personal to a family/individual). They are from the 'Inclusion Network' website (and are not our own work). It is clear that the two planning sessions they show were very different from one another - one was focused on a five year old, and the other on an adult. Note that in both these situations the 'focus person' was able to speak clearly for themselves (in words), but this isn't always the case.
Transforming Transitions is jointly funded by Equity in Education and The Big Lottery.
