So how can vision boards benefit the person-centered planning process? Simply put, they assist in:

Establishing Goals
Vision boards can provide a starting point for developing your initial person-centered plan. For those who already have their goals in mind – creating a vision board provides a motivation tool. For those who are unsure – vision boards help define where they want to see themselves in the future.

Clarifying Goals
Beginning the process by creating these bigger picture endings makes it easier for support staff to be able to back-step to create all necessary steps needed to make the end visions a reality. For the individual served, it reduces the “overwhelm” that the end-goal may create by clarifying the short- , mid-, and long-term steps necessary to achieve the goals on their vision board.

Focusing on Goals
Let’s face it, life gets hectic. Often times, we get buried in managing pop-up responsibilities and forget our ultimate goals. (The things that, when accomplished, actually give us intrinsic value and meaning.) For the person served, having a vision board in plain sight each day helps them align their daily to-do’s and activities to reach the important goals.

Achieving Goals
Positive feelings and reward… if there weren’t any, what would be the driving factor to accomplish things? Achieving goals and feeling those good “feels” are reinforcement for continuing the goal-setting process and growing and evolving as human beings.

Maintaining Goals
Again, life can sometimes interfere with our goals. Vision boards help people get back on the track and align ourselves with the goal’s action plan.

Flourish, CreateAbility’s person-centered planning app is a modern vision board app that the individuals served can carry in their pockets each day. In addition to grouping their pictures, it talks to them, and reminds them about the things they need to accomplish each day towards these goals. For the support staff, it provides the foundation to establish, clarify, and help their client’s focus and achieve goals with the added benefit of providing documentation needed for annual reporting.

If you are looking for a way to simplify your person-centered planning process, please reach out to us at info@createabilityinc.com.

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When the Flourish person-centered care planning app was created, our team considered both critical factors for goal-achieving success in the development of the app:

Those using Flourish use it to convey what motivates them, what they like, what their goals are and how to best work with them, increasing the awareness of their support system and hence, their odds for success. It keeps their goals in the form of a vision board they carry in their pocket each day to encourage them – but stays focused on more succinct steps needed to achieve their goals so they don’t become overwhelmed. 

Setting short, mid, and long-term goals as “stairsteps” to the end-goal makes success more realistic and achievable. It keeps individuals in line with what they need to do each-and-every day to get to the bigger goal, tomorrow. Involving others (support staff) increases accountability as they track progress toward each step of achievement. Finally, noting and celebrating the milestones along the way makes the journey much less taxing for everyone involved.

You see, Flourish includes both important ingredients in the secret sauce of goal-achieving success: 

Positive psychology:  What makes me…ME? What are my goals and why?  How am I going to get there? (And working together with support staff in clearly defining these factors.)

Tracking:  Breaking goals into more succinct steps, tracking and viewing progress, celebrating accomplishments, and experiencing the intrinsic value of achieving intended goals.

Better yet, the outcomes are just as positive for support staff members; improving staff/client relationships, streamlining person-centered planning, and affording them the ability to pull necessary documentation for annual reporting.

If you want to talk about ways to improve person-centered care plans for the people you serve, don’t hesitate to reach out to me/us!

If you want to talk about weight loss, you’ll have to hold your horses – I’m still working on it!

Until next time,

Kerri

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