Independent facilitation · California

Your life. Your choices.A partner along the way.

Self-Determination begins with the life you want to lead: your relationships, your interests, and the goals that matter to you.

Your SDP Partner provides personalized guidance through California’s Self-Determination Program, helping you understand your options and take an active role in shaping your support.

A thoughtful beginning

Person-centered planning and transition into SDP

Moving into Self-Determination involves meaningful choices and an unfamiliar process. I help you understand what lies ahead and work through each stage of the transition.

Explore planning and transition support

I take time to understand your strengths, priorities, and daily experiences, including what is working well and where support is missing. Together, we develop a Person-Centered Plan that reflects your voice and provides a foundation for the services you choose. That understanding guides the practical steps that follow:

Developing your spending plan
Preparing for regional-center meetings
Choosing providers and a Financial Management Service (FMS)
Coordinating the steps needed to get services in place

Support as your life evolves

Ongoing independent facilitation

A plan should remain connected to the person it was created for. Ongoing independent facilitation helps you respond as your circumstances, interests, or priorities change.

Explore ongoing facilitation

Once services are in place, we look at how they are working in everyday life. There may be something to resolve with a provider, a new opportunity to explore, or an arrangement that no longer fits. I help you work through those questions and coordinate the next steps, which may include:

Reviewing spending
Coordinating with providers and your FMS
Preparing for annual planning meetings
Addressing service gaps and making adjustments to existing arrangements

About

Jennifer LaCasse

Independent Facilitator

Jennifer helps people understand their options and build services around the lives they want to lead. Before becoming a facilitator, she worked as a behavioral health therapist and developed person-centered treatment plans with her clients. She also led community health programs for people living with diabetes, chronic pain, and other chronic conditions. Much of that work involved helping people understand their options and make informed decisions about their health and daily lives.

As a participant in California’s Self-Determination Program, Jennifer knows firsthand the difference it makes to have more control over your services and the people who provide them. Her own search for services that fit her needs is what drew her to independent facilitation. She believes people are the experts on their own lives and should have a central role in deciding what their services look like.

Jennifer holds a bachelor’s degree in psychology and is currently pursuing a Master of Education. She completed the Independent Facilitator Training Program through Guidelight Group.

Let’s talk about what’s next

Whether you’re exploring Self-Determination or looking for ongoing assistance, we can talk about where you are in the process and how I may be able to help.

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