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Individual Program Plans and Planning Process

The Self Determination Program requires an individual program plan, or IPP. Your IPP team will use a person-centered planning process to develop your IPP. The IPP will include the services and supports, selected and directed by the individual to help achieve their objectives in the IPP. Also a person-centered plan is not the same as an individual program plan. But both the person-centered plan and the self-determination IPP will use the person-centered process.  Moreover in self-determination, every 12 months there will be a review of the IPP. So prepare ahead of time to make sure self-determination services continue without any interruptions.

All IPP’s either under traditional services and self-determination should be driven by this process. Basically, the person-centered planning process is an approach on working toward the preferred future goals for the participant. It gives the participant a voice and way to say:

Where to live and work.
Who to live with.
How and with whom to spend time.
How to arrange other important parts of life.

Participants should work with their planning team selecting the services and supports that help achieve their goals set in their IPP. It’s an ongoing process, not just one meeting. Additionally, regional centers have a responsibility to ensure the continuity of services necessary to implement an SDP participant’s IPP. This includes any time period in which an enrolled participant doesn’t have a certified budget and/or current spending plan.

Pending completion of a new budget and spending plan, a regional center shall continue services through any process that achieves this outcome, including: if the SDP participant has not exhausted the individual budget funds needed to continue implementing their IPP, extension of the end date of the current budget and spending plan. Continuation of the budget and spending plan from the previous year as a new purchase of service authorization, removing any one-time expenditures. Also, the new budget and spending plan shall be completed no later than 60 days following the end date of the previous budget year, or a Notice of Action shall be issued.

To learn more about Individual Planning and IPP Process go to:

https://rula.disabilityrightsca.org/rula-book/chapter-4-individual-program-plans/m

To learn more about self-determination program continuing the individual budget and spending plan go to :

https://www.dds.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/SDP_Continuing_the_Individual_Budget_12302022.pdf