support planning

Support Planning is a service provided to assist an individual using Consumer Directed Consumer Supports. Support Planning encompasses writing an individual’s Community Support Plan and providing on-going person centered support to implement the Community Support Plan.  Support planners work in conjunction with an individual’s case manager in a team approach to identify services that an individual wants and assure those services are provided in a person centered manner.  Support planners must pass a support certification test provided by the Minnesota Department of Human services that ensures they are knowledgeable about the Consumer Directed Community Support program.  Support planners must re-take and pass the test every two years and are mandated to complete ten hours of training every year.  

what your support planner can do

• Provide information about consumer directed community supports and provider options. 

• Help develop an individuals community support plan.

• Research and coordinate purchases and the delivery of services and supports for the individual. 

• Help solve problems that may occur during the service delivery process. 

• Help monitor the implementation and expenditures related to the  Consumer Directed Community Support Plan.  

• Assist with recruiting, screening, hiring, training, scheduling, monitoring and paying support workers. 

• Provide and/or arrange for staff training specific to the individual’s needs.  

people The support planning process includes:

• Person who receives services and/or his/her legal representative

• Other people as designated by the person (e.g., relatives, friends)

• Certified assessor

• Providers

• Case manager