Audience: 
Social workers, care or case managers, service/support brokers, nurses, supervisors, and other professionals that work with participants in long-term care programs.

Purpose: 
Wisconsin's community-based long-term care programs are based on the premise of individualizing supports and services to meet the needs of the people participating in various programs. The Department of Health and Family Services is incorporating the concept of "individual outcomes" and person-centered, outcome-based care planning as an approach to meeting program participant's needs in developing, maintaining, and monitoring support/service plans.

These concepts go beyond identifying assessed needs to integrating the desired outcomes people want to achieve with their health or functional outcomes in order to design support/service plans that are more comprehensive and reflect the individual's priorities and preferences.

This course will provide you with a basic understanding of "individual outcomes" and outcome-based care planning.

After taking the course, long-term support professionals will have a better understanding of:

1. What individual outcomes are and are not.

2. The best methods for identifying individual outcomes.
3. The difference between individual outcomes and health or functional outcomes.
4. How to incorporate individual outcomes into service/support plans.

Computer Requirements:

• A 'Windows' operating system (Win 98, NT 4, Win 2000, Win XP)
• Internet Explorer 5.5 or above
• Adobe Acrobat Reader 5 or above
• Macromedia Flash Player
  
  Note: If you do not have Macromedia Flash Player, you should be able to view all of the course materials except some of the interactive scenarios and animations.