Key 360 Support Services, in compliance with the Positive Supports Rule (MN Rule 9544), uses person-centered principles and positive support strategies when providing services for persons or children with developmental disabilities or related conditions.  A “positive support strategy” is a strengths-based strategy based on an individualized assessment that emphasizes teaching a person productive and self-determined skills or
alternative strategies and behaviors without the use of restrictive interventions.

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The PSR supports several goals that represent the latest developments in the field of disability services. 
These goals include:

• Promote community participation, person-centeredness & inclusion in the most integrated setting

• Focus on creating quality environments

• Ensure collaborative development of positive support strategies

• Increase skills and self-determination of people receiving services

• Improve the quality of life of people receiving services

• Ensure people are free from humiliating and demeaning procedures

• Eliminate the use of aversive and deprivation procedures

• Create a consistent set of standards for providers across service settings

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The PSR requires that person-centered planning must:

• Include life planning with the person placed at the center of the planning process and the person’s preferences and choices reflected in the selection of services and supports;

• Involve the person directly with the person’s community, network of connections, and close personal relationships that build on the person’s capacity to engage in activities and promote community life; and

• Identify goals to support the person in the most integrated setting.

 

When we use person-centered practices, the people we serve experience a better quality of life.  They:

• Grow in relationships

• Contribute to their community

• Make choices and have positive control over their lives

• Are treated with dignity and respect

• Have a valued social role

• Share ordinary places and activities

• Participate in local community life.

 

The people who deliver services benefit as well. They:

• Witness the people they support achieve goals that are meaningful to them

• Are able to work creatively and collaboratively with others to find successful solutions

• Experience fewer disruptions and crises because plans are successful more often.

• Empower the people they support

• Share the responsibility of resource allocation and decision-making.