Hidden in Plain Sight: The Scourge of The Human Service Practice of Restraint
Date: Wednesday August 27, 7 pm- 9 pm EST OR Friday August 29, 9 am – 11 am EST
Link to Register: https://keystoneinstitute.net/hiddeninplainsight
Did you miss the International SRV Conference held in May in Halifax? If so, this is a chance for ISRVA members to hear Marc Tumeinski’s compelling keynote address, specifically offered to us. As is typical, we’ll listen to Marc’s presentation, then have the chance for SRV focused conversation and dialogue.
Multiple forms of restraint (physical, mechanical, chemical) are commonly, even increasingly, accepted and used as valid human service approaches in a wide variety of disparate service fields, yet with very little comprehensive analysis of these dangerous practices. In this presentation, Marc Tumeinski draws upon multiple tools authored by Wolf Wolfensberger, including Social Role Valorization and Model Coherency, to examine the nature and impact of human service restraint practices, taking into account the heightened vulnerability of devalued people in services.
About the Presenter: Marc Tumeinski, PhD, is a trainer with the SRV Implementation Project. As a service worker, he has supported children and adults with physical and/or intellectual impairments, as well as mental disorder, at home, school and work. Social Role Valorization, and related work by Wolfensberger, has been the guiding framework for his service-related efforts since his first involvement in human services. He has given workshops and spoken on issues of violence in services, as well as the use of restrictive practices such as restraint, at conferences in the US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and the Netherlands. Marc has an article on the topic of restraint use published in the February 2005 issue of Mental Retardation, as well as two more recent articles published in 2019 and 2023. He consulted to a group of family members and human service workers in Ontario (Canada) toward the goal of bringing an end to the use of, and training in, restraints by human services in that province.
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