National Conference or Meeting 

in-person meetings 

The Browne Center
Phone: 603.228.2084
Email: iod@unh.edu
Web: http://iod.unh.edu/events.html#mmtsi 

The Browne Center
Durham, NH 

An intensive week-long summer institute designed to help develop the competencies needed to facilitate consumer and family directed life planning

Description:
Methods, Models & Tools is an intensive five-day summer institute, presented by the Institute on Disability and the Browne Center, designed to help develop the competencies needed to facilitate consumer and family-directed life planning. The summer institute incorporates lecture, role-playing, action learning, and peer support to provide an interactive forum for participants to develop and practice effective group facilitation skills. The curriculum addresses theories of group development, offering experiential methods for process design, questioning and recording skills, and strategic planning. Models of situational leadership, team performance, conflict management and principled negotiation are translated to the context of person-centered futures planning.

Who Should Attend?
This course is appropriate for individuals who have a strong interest in developing the facilitation skills used to support increased or improved group collaboration. The summer institute is specifically geared toward case managers, social workers, nurses, long term care specialists, clinicians, family members, and others involved in planning with persons with long term support needs.

Presenters: Patty Cotton, M.Ed., & Pam McPhee, MSW
Patty Cotton, M.Ed., directs Innovation Facilitators (IF), a new service initiative offering educational programs, facilitation services and professional development related to creative planning, strategic visioning, and consumer and family-directed service designs. Patty works jointly with the Institute on Disability and the Browne Center for experiential learning at UNH to establish IF as a centralized resource for people with disabilities and families to hire an independent facilitator to guide them through person-centered planning. Since joining the Institute on Disability in 1989, Patty has coordinated numerous federally funded projects with a particular focus on model demonstration and system-change in adult services. She has extensive background in process facilitation, service brokering, and the development of natural support strategies. Patty has authored several publications on person-centered planning and natural supports, and provides training at both the state and national levels.

Pam McPhee, MSW, is a founder and the Director of the Browne Center and is on the faculty of the Outdoor Education Program at the University of New Hampshire. Pam has had a varied career working for Outward Bound, as a school social worker and as an organizational consultant. Her focus is on helping individuals and groups develop their own deliberate culture through inter and intra-personal skill development. 

The Browne Center 

consumer and family directed life planning; leadership;