What is up with the Individual Service Plan or effectionatley known as the ISP. A friend of mine used to refer to it as the individual neglect plan. It is disconnected from reality, redundant year after year, and it is a great exercise in cognitive constipation.
We are at times, forcing a life plan on an indivudal who is often labelled with a disability, but more so, with a disabling diagnosis driven by insurance giants who created the DSM to assure we can label people within 24 hours, even though its wrong and may lead to a lifetime of horrible and dysfunctional treatment, and service plans.
We need to stop humoring our customers and ourselves. We need to celebrate our differences but more so, how as care givers,we have much more similar needs and wishes similar to those we serve, seek in their lives. We need to think about what people really need and want from our services, and make sure we deliver. The worst thing we can do is waste people's time. Human Services has a long history of doing so, as well as doing amazing and wonderful things for those we serve and support, provided we free ourselves from our own restrictve thinking about what someone's limitations are. We need to focus on the great things people can do when they have real choice and have real interest instead of the trumpted up goals that are presented in one' ISP. I (inspire) S (support) P(prosper). Now that's a plan, and not something done to someone seeking services who has no choice but to have this annual ritual done to them, instead of for them and with them.
Serve Well and Often.
JBG
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