Live Trainings

All courses are currently offered in an interactive online format. Participants are asked to be engaged throughout the training and to connect using audio and video. Joining with the use of a computer or tablet is strongly recommended as the small screen of a smartphone and inability to download shared documents can hamper full participation.

Note: Space for Oregon ISP trainings is very limited! We announce new trainings in the first part of each month in the Oregon ISP Pipeline newsletter. You can sign up here to get alerted as soon as registration opens.

Our workshops’ names have changed! Before you register, please make sure you haven’t taken it when it was called something else.

Oregon ISP for Provider Organizations & Foster Providers

This online, facilitated half-day training is for Provider Organization staff and licensed I/DD Foster providers. It includes a broad overview of the Oregon ISP planning process and discusses how planning can happen in a way that centers around the person, supports a person’s choices, and ultimately gets someone closer to the things they want in their life. Provider responsibilities for contributing to the development and implementation of the Oregon ISP will also be discussed.

Oregon ISP for Services Coordinators and Personal Agents

This two-day, facilitated online training is designed for CDDP Services Coordinators, Brokerage Personal Agents, CIIS Services Coordinators, ODDS Residential Specialists, and other ODDS staff. These discussion and activity-based sessions highlight case management skills and responsibilities for facilitating the Oregon ISP process. The focus of this training is planning that centers around the person, supports a person’s choices, and ultimately gets someone closer to the things they want in their life.

NOTE: Because this training is targeted to SCs and PAs, registration for this class is limited to employees of ODDS, CDDPs and Brokerages.

Person Centered Thinking for Services Coordinators and Personal Agents

Person Centered Thinking is the foundation that underlies all person-centered approaches. It is essential for anyone who provides supports or services, develops plans, or participates in person-centered planning. This online training offers a series of workshops focused on person-centered discovery, listening, and management skills. Attendees are asked to participate in all sessions.

NOTE: Because this training is targeted to SCs and PAs, registration for this class is limited to employees of ODDS, CDDPs and Brokerages.

ISP Focus Area: Documentation Best Practices

Note: this training was previously called Writing Meaningful Documentation that Tells the Whole Story

This 90-minute session will focus on effective progress notes; the purpose, how to capture relevant information using empowering language, and sample templates to promote learning. This workshop is intended for providers, including provider organization staff and foster providers.

During this training we will:

  • Build skills in person-centered documentation practices
  • Develop meaningful progress notes that connect to the person’s desired life

NOTE: This workshop is intended for providers, including provider organization staff and foster providers.

ISP Focus Area: Trauma-Informed Foster Support

Note: this training was previously called Fostering a Good Life: An Interactive Training for Foster Providers

This 90-minute session will focus on the important role of foster providers in planning with children, teens, and adults in foster care and supporting opportunities to build positive life experiences. There will be a focus on tools and resources that can help foster providers better understand, plan with, and support people toward experiences that build self-determination, social capital, economic sufficiency, and community inclusion. This workshop is intended for foster providers and their employees.

During this training we will:

  • Build planning skills, specifically focusing on present and future life outcomes that consider all life domains
  • Use the life domains framework and tool to explore the current realities in our lives while also thinking about what life experiences we want to have
  • Deepen understanding of how trauma can impact a person’s life experiences and discuss tools that can support someone to explore life goals and plan for the future

NOTE: This 90-minute session is for foster providers and their staff.

ISP Topic: Person-Centered Information

Note: this training was previously called Planning with People: This Is How We Do It!

Person Centered Information through the Oregon Individual Support Planning (ISP) process is an essential role for all supporters. This 90-minute workshop will:

  • Strengthen your role as an advocate during planning
  • Provide information about Person-Centered Planning
  • Offer hands-on practice using the Person-Centered Information (PCI) form
  • Explore additional tools for gathering person-centered information

During this training we will:

  • Explore the concept of Person Centered Information as a core component of planning with people
  • Discuss the values behind understanding and recording a person’s perspective
  • Provide tools and resources for better understanding a person’s perspective, a process often referred to as gathering Person Centered Information

ISP Topic: Support Protocols

Note: this training was previously called Developing Person-Centered Support Documents

This 90-minute workshop will focus on how support documents are developed and the concept of ‘best supports’: the balance between important TO and important FOR. Best documentation practices will also be discussed. This workshop is intended for providers who develop support documents, including provider organization staff and foster providers.

During this training we will:
-Identify contributors in developing support strategies, and how each person can contribute.

-Discuss the balance between important TO and important FOR, and how this concept is central to person-centered support documents.

-Explore best practices around writing person-centered documentation and practice identifying and correcting common errors.

NOTE: This workshop is intended for providers who develop support documents, including provider organization staff and foster providers.

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