As indicated in Policy Statement 9, Development of Programming Plan, each individual should have a programming plan that evolves throughout his or her period of incarceration. Programming planners and service providers, including doctors, counselors, and employment experts, should document the person's compliance (or lack thereof) with the programming plan and, where applicable, reassess his or her needs and assets on an ongoing basis. Several months before the moment of potential or certain release, a transition planning team should be formed to assess the inmate's status. Specifically, the transition planning team, with input from appropriate stakeholders, should gather information concerning the person's progress in his or her programming plan, any risk that he or she would pose to the community, and any strengths he or she could draw on or needs he or she would face if released to the community at that time. The collected information can provide the basis not only for the decisions of the releasing authority (Policy Statement 18, Release Decision) but also for the formulation of the steps that should be taken in the days or months before the individual's release (Chapter D, Managing the Key Transition Period). Indeed, such information may also be valuable in creating a supervision strategy that will implement any conditions set by the releasing authority and protect the safety of both the community and the individual (Policy Statement 25, Development of Supervision Strategy).