MyCompass Planning
MyCompass Planning is a social innovation that emerged from Skills Society, Southern Alberta Community Living Association, Lift Interactive and Ben Weinlick. It is now scaling across North America. In essence the aim is to make system change that ensures case management in social services doesn’t forget the human being at the centre of development, delivery and assessment of support services.
The Vision of MyCompass Planning is to make humanized disability and social services case management so compelling that individuals, organizations and governments instinctively centre their work around the rights, needs, and aspirations of the people they serve.
The Mission is to redesign social service case management interactions alongside people served - resulting in a more humanized, efficient and engaging support system that allows people to truly thrive.
The MyCompass Theory of Change is to:
Build a Movement
Build a movement to humanize social services by enabling individuals and organizations to put person-directed values into meaningful practice through innovative tools and interactions.
Research and Co-Design
Research and co-design positive planning, case management and evaluation interactions to make it easier for individuals and organizations to put the interests and quality of life of the people they serve front and centre.
Engage
Engage support workers, government and service providers in a more humanized case management approach that ensures the people they serve are not seen as numbers, their lived experience is not lost and their voices are centered.
Simplify
Design tools and interactions that make it easy for people to embed rights-based principles, person-directed planning methods, human-centered interaction design, behaviour change science, and lived experience stories into every facet of their work.
Empower
Empower people with disabilities and their supports to expand horizons and strengthen a growth mindset in order to improve quality of life.
Much of the more recent MyCompass research and co-design has emerged in our Action Lab.
