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CalSTAT Califormnia Services for Technical Assistance and Training - Learning Center

 

Strategies: TRACE (San Diego USD)

Instructional strategies: Person Centered Planning process provides the foundation that can help young people develop their goals to create a vision for the future. It is key in the development of Transition Plans and Individualized Education Plan goals across the life domains which include: vocational, recreation/leisure, self–advocacy, independent living, community, and adult education.

Organizational strategies:
Using the TRACE Curriculum Guide, all students have a transition plan that has a coordinated set of activities in the community to prepare them for adult life. The scope and sequence of the curriculum demonstrates how students increase their vocational skills for successful adult life.

Research:
Person Centered Planning is the process that is being implemented to achieve student outcomes. Person Center Planning has been cited as a successful model.

  • "Person–centered planning is a way of organizing around one person to define and create a better future." Sanderson H., Kennedy J. Ritchie P. and Goodwin G (1997). People, plans and possibilities: exploring person–centered planning. Edinburgh: Scottish Human Services Trust.
  • "Person–centered planning continues to make a positive difference to those who are willing to work at the systems edge." O’Brien, J. and Lyle O’Brien, C. (2002), Implementing Person–Centered Planning.