HSER 1010 Disability and Person Centered Planning
Course Information
| Course Number | HSER 1010 |
|---|---|
| Course Title | Disability and Person Centered Planning |
| Description | This course gives an overview of how service providers work with one another in order to assure the delivery of optimal supports. It will introduce you to a variety of strategies and techniques used to facilitate person centered planning for individualized and real life goals. Topics covered in the course include: the use of support teams (effective team work, team dynamics, communication skills and problem solving skills); working with families; direct service provider roles and responsibilities; diversity, confidentiality, and advocacy issues; the civil and disability rights movement; interdisciplinary team planning processes; and use of the Planning Alternate Tomorrows with Hope (PATH) planning system to promote minimally invasive care and support strategies. (Prerequisites: None) |
| Total Credits | 4 |
| Total Hours | 64 |
| Instruction Type | Credits and Hours |
|---|---|
| Lecture | 4 Credits, 64 Hours |
Pre/Corequisites
Prerequisite: No Prerequisites
Institutional Core Competencies
- Critical and Creative Thinking - Students will be able to demonstrate purposeful thinking with the goal of using a creative process for developing and building upon ideas and/or the goal of using a critical process for the analyzing and evaluating of ideas.
Course Competencies
- Describe Person Centered Planning.
- Discuss the history and impact of the Civil Rights Movement on disability services.
- Describe what is involved in an effective planning cycle.
- Define and describe how diversity affects futures planning.
- Illustrate how inclusion issues affect service delivery.
- Prepare an individual futures plan.
- Describe teamwork principles.
- Describe diversity, dignity and respect, and an understanding of universal human needs.
- Describe confidentiality issues and data privacy through demonstration of appropriate confidentiality in a variety of situations.
- Describe the Health Insurance Portability And Accountability Act (HIPAA) and patient rights through a demonstration of knowledge of various parts of the act and to whom it applies.
- Describe advocacy, including empowerment, advocacy, professional organizations within the community that offer advocacy, and the importance of individual preferences and opportunities when considering choices for those with special needs.
- Describe the role of mandated reporter.
SCC Accessibility Statement
South Central College strives to make all learning experiences as accessible as possible. If you have a disability and need accommodations for access to this class, contact the Academic Support Center to request and discuss accommodations.
North Mankato: Room B-132, (507) 389-7222; Faribault: Room A-116, (507) 332-7222.
Additional information and forms can be found at: southcentral.edu/disability
This material can be made available in alternative formats by contacting the Academic Support Center at 507-389-7222.