Direct service work is where “the rubber meets the road”; where the needs of people who receive various types of human services are addressed. However, good direct service work can get lost in all the other things that surround and impinge on it, such as laws and regulations, union rules, family concerns and demands, etc. …

This Zoom presentation aims to introduce you to Dr. Wolf Wolfensberger's newly published books: Model Coherency – The Key to Human Service Quality Vol 1,2 & 3 and stimulate renewed interest in the study of model coherency and application. Dr. Wolfensberger offers advanced insights into model coherency, with much new material on the fundamental importance …

What is the starting point for establishing a vision alongside someone? For thinking about how to help a person move into a valued role? For helping someone develop deeper friendships? For helping someone get engaged more with the community? Like a bright red thread, the idea of the "Culturally Valued Analogue" runs through all SRV …

Come join us, and bring your lunch! These noontime presentation and discussion sessions over Zoom are for those who are familiar with SRV (Social Role Valorization) and who are interested in putting it into practice. They are free of charge. I

Around 1800, a movement arose in Europe that soon spread to America, called “moral treatment”, taught a service approach, especially to those with mental disorders, that stood in strong positive contrast to their then-prevailing very negative interpretation and treatment, as if they were menaces or even sub-human. Moral treatment emphasized culturally normative environments, high expectancies, much …

Around 1800, a movement arose in Europe that soon spread to America, called “moral treatment”, taught a service approach, especially to those with mental disorders, that stood in strong positive contrast to their then-prevailing very negative interpretation and treatment, as if they were menaces or even sub-human. Moral treatment emphasized culturally normative environments, high expectancies, much …

Come join us, and bring your lunch! These noontime presentation and discussion sessions over Zoom are for those who are familiar with SRV (Social Role Valorization) and who are interested in putting it into practice. They are free of charge. I

For those with some knowledge of Social Role Valorization principles, and who are hungry for how to help people move into valued roles, this workshop is for you. How do you identify roles people might be interested in? Once you have a role in mind, how might you help a person enter that role? How …