F Sel SELF-DIRECTED LIFE PLAN
Self-Determination Series
THIS IS YOUR LIFE!
CREATING YOUR
SELF-DIRECTED
LIFE PLAN
Determine Your Destiny
UIC NRTC Self-Determination Series
THIS IS YOUR LIFE!
CREATING YOUR
SELF-DIRECTED
LIFE PLAN
Prepared by Jessica A. Jonikas, M.A., and Judith A. Cook, Ph.D.
With consultants: Suzanne M. Andriukaitis, MA, LCSW; Mary
Ann Beall; Joan Nobiling, MSEd; and Suzanne Vogel-Scibilia,
MD
Determine Your Destiny
You may want to use this workbook with our tool, ¡°Express Yourself:
Assessing Self-Determination in Your Life.¡± The tool also is a part of our
Center¡¯s Self-Determination Series, which can be found at
or by calling
(312) 422-8180.
Copyright, 2004
University of Illinois at Chicago
National Research & Training Center on Psychiatric Disability
1601 W. Taylor St. MC - 912
Chicago, IL 60612
Phone: (312) 355-1696
FAX: (312) 355-4189
psych.uic.edu/uicnrtc/
Judith A. Cook, Ph.D., Director
The Center is supported by the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research, U.S. Department of
Education, and the Center for Mental Health Services, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
(Cooperative Agreement #H133B000700). The opinions expressed herein do not necessarily reflect the position,
policy, or views of either agency and no official endorsement should be inferred.
This Plan belongs to:
Your Plan will contain some private information. In case you lose it, you can put your name and
phone number or address on the below lines. If you¡¯d rather not have your name on it, then you can
leave this page blank.
Introduction
What is this Workbook?
This workbook can help you figure out what you want out of life and how to get there. It will help you make
plans for your own life, with supports of your own choosing.
Some common goals are:
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to make a friend,
to find a better place to live,
to get a job or a better job, or
to go to school.
If you have a life goal like this, use this workbook to see what you have, what you need, and what action steps
to take to reach your goal.
If you don¡¯t have a life goal right now, and would like to pick one, you can get started with our tool, ¡°Express
Yourself: Assessing Self-Determination in Your Life.¡± To find this tool, visit our website at
or call us at (312) 422-8180, ext. 10. You also can use
this workbook to choose a personally meaningful life goal (as described in more detail in Step 4, starting on page 25).
This workbook can help you accept that you are a WHOLE PERSON, with many ideas and goals. This is true
no matter what hard times you¡¯ve had or are still having.
Who Should Use this Workbook?
This workbook is for people who have a mental illness or a psychiatric disability, have been hospitalized for
psychiatric reasons, and have found it hard to do certain things in life because of mental health problems. Other
people certainly may find the workbook useful, but it is directed toward people who are in mental health recovery.
Many people with emotional problems or psychiatric disabilities feel like large parts of their lives are no longer
their own. They may even feel like they have become their illness or diagnosis, and that few people see the other
important and interesting things about them. Too often, people in mental health recovery face poor treatment and
discrimination in their communities and their service systems.
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