| A.__The review must be conducted by meeting together or by | means sufficient to address the needed or desired changes. |
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| B.__The review may include the person, the person's | guardian, if any, and the individual support coordinator. |
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| C.__Events that pose a significant change in the person's | health, abilities or life circumstances may lead to plan | review. |
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| D.__Other events that lead to a plan review must be | identified by the person's planning group. |
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| | 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. |
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| | 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. |
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| | 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. |
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| | Sec. 51. 34-B MRSA §5471, as amended by PL 1995, c. 560, Pt. K, §58, | is repealed. |
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| | Sec. 52. 34-B MRSA §5472, as enacted by PL 1983, c. 459, §7, is | repealed. |
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