A Series for Facilitators and Planners who Work with People with Intellectual, Developmental and Other Disabilities 

Five interactive sessions will cover:

• Decision making standards and opportunities, including:
• Competency and capacity
• Urgency and significance
• Decision-tree mapping and practicing “what if?” scenarios
• The role of culture in advance care planning and care at end of life
• Language and terminology of advance care planning and care at end of life
• How to start planning conversations
• The role of a conversation and planning facilitator

Leigh Ann Kingsbury is a consultant and gerontologist who has supported people with complex healthcare and disabilities for more than thirty years. She is a Certified Person-Centered Thinking Mentor Trainer, and Board Member Emeritus of The Learning Community for Person Centered Practices. Leigh Ann is the author of AAIDD’s People Planning Ahead: A Guide to Communicating Healthcare and End of Life Wishes and a Respecting Choices Advance Care Planning Facilitator. Currently, she facilitates the Alzheimer’s and Related Dementias Task Force for the state of Ohio.

Mary Beth Lepkowsky leads Helen Sanderson Associates USA, a learning and development consultancy that developed “Living Well,” a person-centered approach to supporting people to live well with a long-term condition and plan for care at the end of life. Mary Beth is a Respecting Choices Advance Care Planning Facilitator, Five Wishes Facilitator, and Mentor Trainer for Person Centered Thinking and Planning and has facilitated advance care planning workshops for families and healthcare providers in California.