HCBS Training

Evaluation plans include information that can be organized into three major areas:

Efforts to teach person-centered practices and change HCBS: What efforts are you making?

• List of steps taken to put person-centered practices in place,
• The number of trainers available to support person-centered methods and other positive supports,
• The number of trainings that occur in a given year,
• Documents edited or changed to be more person-centered,
• Number of On-Page Descriptions created,
• Number of person-centered and positive support plans that were facilitated in a given year, and
• Types of positive supports embedded into HCBS.

Fidelity of Implementation: How well are person-centered practices used?

• List of key elements of person-centered practices that teams use to move forward at an organizational level,
• List of key elements included for each person’s plan of care in HCBS,
• Monitor key elements dedicated to each person-centered plan models used ad assess whether it is completed in the manner intended, and
• Record whether each intervention with a person's positive support plans are implemented by making a list of the key steps.  

Outcome Measure examples: What changes are observed before and after person-centered practices are put in place?

• Improvements in quality of life,
• Increases in use of social and emotional skills,
• Decreases in challenges (e.g. incidents, 911 calls, injuries, workers compensation claims),
• Increases in staff retention, and
• Decreases in staff attrition.