This page highlights models and movements that share common features with the Supportive Care model.  You may download a more detailed comparison of these movements to the Supportive Care model.

For additional resources on these movements and various kinds of supportive care groups, see Supportive Care Resources.

Secular movements

Person-Centered Planning (PCP). A movement in human services toward individualized planning of services for clients.  

• Person-Centered Planning: Maps and Paths to the Future.  Introductory article.  
• "The Origins of Person-Centered Planning: A Community of Practice Perspective."  Gives historical perspective on the movement.

Asset-Based Community Development (ABCD).  Movement toward empowering communities and countering the professional services that often take the place of community action.

• Asset-Based Community Development Institute

Community-centered movements.  Movements that started with a Person-Centered Planning (PCP) approach, but incorporate community-building aspects similar to ABCD.

• Supporting Self Determination with Integrity.  A philosophical framework for community-centered movements. 
• PATH.  (Planning Alternative Tomorrows with Hope)  "Thinking about PATH" is a good introductory article.  
• Planned Lifetime Advocacy Network (PLAN) .  Canadian "non-profit organization, established in 1989 by and for families committed to future planning and securing a good life for their relative with a disability."  See also PLAN Institute for Caring Citizenship.

Micro-boards and Human Service Co-operatives.   Family-generated legal structures for channeling and maximizing existing funding within a larger family framework.  

• Tennessee Microboards Association, Inc.  
• Human Service Cooperatives (HSC).  Federated Human Service Co-op is itself a co-op with a mission to assist in the creation of Human Service Cooperatives (HSC) to provide personalized services to persons with disabilities.

Christian movements

Denominationally-based ministries.  A wide range of advocacy and resourcing ministries at the denominational level. 

• ADNet's listing of denominational ministries
• Committee on Disabilities of the National Council of Churches of Christ
  A group of representatives of Christian denominations and para-church ministries that advocates for persons with disabilities in the church and society. For more, see Ecumenical Resources.

Para-church organizations.  Examples of organizations which provide resources to churches and religious groups but are not affiliated with a particular denomination.

• Joni & Friends  Large evangelical Christian organization with branch offices and a wide variety of services and resources. 
• AAPD Interfaith Initiative.  An interfaith program to provide resources for congregations of any faith and to encourage them to join in a broad public advocacy effort for persons with disabilities.  This program started at the National Organization for Disabilities (NOD), but moved to the oversight of American Association of Persons with Disabilities (AAPD) in 2008. 
• Friendship Ministries.  A publication ministry which encourages special ministry settings for adults with developmental/intellectual disabilities as a means of including them into Christian communities. 

CLC Network: GLUE.  GLUE is a model for forming a congregational team around a person with disabilities in order to incorporate that person into the life of the church.

• CLC Network home page
• GLUE