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Department on Disability Services

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Discovery Toolkit

PCT-PPP Guidance
EF Develop smarter goals handout
EF Developing a Positive Personal Profile
EF Individual Job Search Plan fill-in version
EF Individual Job Search Plan print version
EF Positive Personal Profile fill-in
EF Positive Personal Profile blank
EF PPP Tilson examples
EF Tilson Leadership training
EF Rubric for Evaluating Quality of PPPs and Job Search-Community Participation Plans 12-31-14
LEAD Center Self-Guided Discovery Facilitator’s Guide

Person-Centered Thinking

Person-centered thinking is a philosophy behind service provision that supports positive control and self-direction of people’s own lives. DDS is working to implement this through training sessions and other agency wide initiatives.

Employment First Initiative

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Under the Employment First philosophy, competitive, integrated employment is the first and overwhelmingly preferred option for working-age youth and adults with disabilities.