John O’Brien and Connie Lyle O’Brien (Responsive Systems Associates) have produced a wide range of informational material on person-centered planning, community building, and innovative services.

• Against Pain as a Tool in Professional Work on People with Severe Disabilities (.pdf)
• Assistance with Integrity: The Search for Accountability and the Lives of People with Developmental Disabilities (.pdf)
• Community Engagement: A Necessary Condition for Self-Determination and Individual Funding (.pdf)
• Cultivating Thinking Hearts: Letters from the Lifesharing Safeguards Project (.pdf)
• Deliberate-Fire: An Account of Organizational Transformation in Onondaga Community Living, Syracuse, New York (.pdf)
• Designing Policies in Support of Inclusive Community (.pdf)
• Discovering Community Living: Learning from Innovations in Services to People with Mental Retardation (.pdf)
• Embracing Ignorance, Error, & Fallibility: Competencies for Leadership of Effective Services (.pdf)
• “Everything in His Life Has Changed…” Clark County’s Family Grants Program (.pdf)
• Finding a Way to Everyday Lives: The Contribution of Person Centered Planning (.pdf)
• Focus on Vermont’s Self-Determination Project (.pdf)
• The Genius of the Principle of Normalization (.pdf)
• Guiding People Home: The Role of Wisconsin’s Supported Housing Specialist (.pdf)
• Implementing Self-Determination Initiatives: Some Notes on Complex Change (.pdf)
• Inclusion as a Force for School Renewal (.pdf)
• “It’s How You Look at Your Work That Makes a Difference”: Direct Support Workers Consider the Meaning of Their Job (.pdf)
• Learning About Community Support for Families of Children with Disabilities (.pdf)
• Living with the Questions: Notes from a Gathering of People Concerned with Supported Living (.pdf)
• My House is Covered with Papers! Reflections on a Generation of Active Citizenship (.pdf)
• Never Give Up: Assets Inc.’s Commitment to Community Life for People Seen as “Difficult to Serve” (.pdf)
• One Day at a Time: Changing a System to Realize a Dream (.pdf)
• The Origins of Person-Centered Planning: A Community of Practice Perspective (.pdf)
• Pathfinders: Making the Way from Segregation to Community Life (.pdf)
• Paying Customers Are Not Enough: The Dynamics of Individualized Funding (.pdf)
• Person Centered Planning In It’s Strategic Context: Towards a Framework for Reflection-In-Action (.pdf)
• The Politics of Person-Centered Planning (.pdf)
• Renewing Organizations Through Person Centered Planning (.pdf)
• Searching for Quality in the Crooked Map Zone (.pdf)
• Signs of Community Building (.pdf)
• Supported Living: What’s the Difference? (.pdf)
• Telling New Stories: The Search for Capacity Among People with Severe Handicaps (.pdf)
• The Transition to Supported Living: Realizing the Moment and Moving On (.pdf)
• “…to interact with non-disabled persons to the fullest extent possible.” Perspectives on “Most Integrated” Services for People with Developmental Disabilities (.pdf)
• A Tune Beyond Us, Yet Ourselves: Power Sharing Between People with Substantial Disabilities and Their Assistants (.pdf)
• Unfolding Capacity: People with Disabilities and Their Allies Building Better Communities Together (.pdf)
• Unlikely Alliances: Friendship & People with Developmental Disabilities (.pdf)
• Walking Toward Freedom: One Family’s Journey Into Self-Determination (.pdf)
• What Can We Count On To Make and Keep People Safe? Perspectives on Creating Effective Safeguards for People with Developmental Disabilities (.pdf)
• What’s Worth Working For? Leadership for Better Quality Human Services (Five Accomplishments) (.pdf)