1. Connecting Assessments and Integrated Individualized Plans Derrick Platt, Ph.D. MCESA / TJST

2. Insure Assessments are specific to the whole youth  Look at multiple components of the youth  Strengths, Needs, and Culture Discovery (SNCD)  Define where the youth is currently

3. Assess your Collaborations & Connections  Assessing roles, strengths, and how to best serve the youth. SWOT  Know what data to share working towards an Individualized collaborative plan

4. Assess your Collaborations & Connections, cont.

5. Assessing is a Skill and needs to be developed over time  Annually review purpose of gathering the information and how it is being used.  Find the right assessment use multiple different types (formal, standard, custom, informal, etc.)  Review and train for validity, reliability, and accountability  Improve assessments over time http://sped510.weebly.com/class-notes.html

6. Assessments should build into an Integrated Individualized plan  Communicate assessments that include the youth’s strength, concerns, progress  The youth should be included in the development of the plan  Focus on outcomes and change process  It should be driven by the youth not the agency

7. The plan should focus on change http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2012/11/7143/13

8. Integrated Individual plan should be written out and understandable to the youth and family  The plan should be easy to understand  Don’t bury them in bureaucracy  Written down to see it, multiple copies for all involved, possible online, but accessible. http://thesparkmill.com/blog/2014/3/26/goal-plan-then-action-easy-steps-to-activating-your-dead-strategic-plan

9. Best interests case practice model: Victorian Government Department of Human Services, Melbourne, Australia http://www.dhs.vic.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0019/640306/BICPM_summary_guide-2012.pdf http://www.kidsathope.org/

11. The plan needs to be broken down, manageable & measurable  Take the youth where they are currently and moves them to the next level  Step by step on how change happens and where they are in the change cycle  There should be projected time intervals to measure change  Build in relapse and failure and how to deal with barriers  Continuous adjustments/recalibration

13. Continual reassessment and reevaluation of plan towards engagement  Do mini assessments/check-ins of progress daily, weekly, monthly  Make adjustments to the plan to ensure forward movement

14. Teach and Transition assessments and plans to youth for sustainability  Sustainability can only be maintained through teaching them to revise and adjust plans  Have them practice checking themselves and setting goals (making a plan) http://eportfoliosblog.blogspot.com/

15. Questions and Group work Derrick Platt, Ph.D. & TH derrick.platt@mcesa.maricopa.gov