Person-Centered Coach Training

What is a Person-Centered Coach?

Maintaining the momentum of your person-centered efforts requires intentionality. Having key staff specifically trained to support, propel, and enhance your person-centered efforts is vital. Staff often need help using or implementing person-centered practices effectively. This is where having your own Person-Centered Coach can be immensely valuable.

Person-Centered Coaches are your on-the-ground Person-Centered Thinking support team. They can advise and help others further develop their PCT skills, and assist leadership in incorporating PCT fundamentals into the organization's services, supports, and future planning.

Valuable Skills that Benefit the Organization and the Person

Make sure person-centered momentum lasts and does not fade over time
Provide quality assurance for Person-Centered Descriptions (PCDs)
Ensure PCD information is properly incorporated into annual plans
Assist others in creating and incorporating effective PCDs in day-to-day service delivery
Support Person-Centered Thinking Training attendees to develop their PCT skills further
Employ PCT skills effectively within the organization when conflicts arise
Empower and assist leadership in incorporating person-centered thinking fundamentals into the services and future planning of the organization
Weave Person-Centeredness into the fabric and mindset of the agency
Promote and facilitate an agency's shift into one that is truly person-centered

Coach Training Objectives and Schedule at a Glance

Prerequisite: Person-Centered Thinking (PCT) Training
Duration: 6-8 Months
Great for: Management, supervisors, proficient PCT supporters

Schedule: You will meet with our Coach Mentor once a month and should expect 2-4 hours of homework per week.

Objective: A Person-Centered Coach is fully capable of coaching others to accurately use Person-Centered Thinking skills and foster the implementation of person-centered practices at any level of the organization.

About the Curriculum

The Learning Community for Person-Centered Practices (TLCPCP) is a collaborative of agencies, companies, states, and individuals who come together to ensure best practices in Person-Centered Practices, as well as to provide resources such as curriculum, education, conferences, group discussions, and celebrations.

IntellectAbility is a part of this collaborative, offering and receiving information on best practices and resources. Our Mentors and Trainers are all credentialed with TLCPCP and deliver this curriculum.

Why Should You Get Credentialed with IntellectAbility?

IntellectAbility offers training and credentialing for every role, with the goal of creating organizations that are truly person-centered and equipped with the skills to help people live lives they love.

We have a full team to support our Trainers and Coaches, and we aim to ensure you’re set up for success.
Our training is tailored to your organization’s needs to reach your desired culture-changing outcomes.
We offer one year of direct support after coach training is complete.

Empower Job Coaches with Person-Centered Thinking Skills

Secure and maintain employment for people with disabilities by becoming a certified Person-Centered Coach.

Person-Centered skills apply to many aspects of life. When applied to employment supports, they equip job coaches to help people with disabilities achieve competitive employment, whether through vocational rehabilitation or supported employment, and to ensure the right job match from the very beginning.

Discover what is Important To a person and balance it with what is Important For them
Align those discoveries with job positions available to the person in their community
Pave the way for more successful job procurement efforts
Contribute to an enhanced quality of life for the person receiving support

Coaches also help ensure continued employment by applying everyday learning, problem-solving, and management skills.

Become a Person-Centered Coach