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LR 1093
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A.__The review must be conducted by meeting together or by
means sufficient to address the needed or desired changes.

 
B.__The review may include the person, the person's
guardian, if any, and the individual support coordinator.

 
C.__Events that pose a significant change in the person's
health, abilities or life circumstances may lead to plan
review.

 
D.__Other events that lead to a plan review must be
identified by the person's planning group.

 
5.__Information from planning process.__During the personal
planning process, the department shall develop and record
information around a person's needs, define the projection of
needs without regard to service availability, define necessary
support services, recommend optimal courses of action and include
plans for the active and continued exploration of suitable
program or service alternatives based on client need.__This
information must be recorded in the department's management
information system.

 
6.__Implementation of personal plan.__The department shall
assist persons with needs identified by their planning process to
obtain housing, employment or other meaningful occupation,
medical and other professional therapeutic services, recreational
and avocational opportunities and educational services insofar as
resources permit.__Implementation of the personal plan must occur
at the earliest possible time.__The personal plan must be agreed
to, as a part of its implementation, by the client, if the client
is able, or the client's legal guardian.

 
7.__Training.__The department shall ensure the provision of
regular and ongoing training on personal planning to its own
staff, providers and clients and their families, guardians and
allies.__The department shall regularly provide clients and their
families and allies with informational materials regarding the
personal planning process.__The department shall periodically
provide training to clients and their families and allies or
develop training materials for them that are designed to enhance
their ability to participate in personal planning.

 
Sec. 51. 34-B MRSA §5471, as amended by PL 1995, c. 560, Pt. K, §58,
is repealed.

 
Sec. 52. 34-B MRSA §5472, as enacted by PL 1983, c. 459, §7, is
repealed.


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