Valor Press is pleased to announce: A Brief Introduction to Social Role Valorization: A high-order concept for addressing the plight of societally devalued people, and for structuring human services 4th expanded edition by Wolf Wolfensberger,… Read More »announcing the publication of an expanded edition of the SRV monograph
The principles of Social Role Valorization (SRV) contain a wealth of practical and highly concrete implementation strategies, both broad and deep, that can be carried out by individuals, groups or on the societal level. No… Read More »the wealth of concrete SRV implementation strategies
With Dr. Jeff McNair from CalBaptist University, I recently co-wrote an article which was published in the inaugural issue of The Journal of the Christian Institute on Disability. Dr. McNair has attended SRV and is… Read More »new article: ‘What would be better? Social Role Valorization and the development of ministry to persons affected by disability
Thanks to Bill Forman for sharing this news item from the Globe & Mail. The brief anecdote is an example of being socialized into the devalued role of prisoner, so that the role eventually becomes… Read More »Globe and Mail news item: when prison feels like home
The 18 February 2013 issue of Time magazine had a photo of the actor John Hawkes who starred in The Sessions, playing a man in an iron lung (in real life, the poet and journalist… Read More »Devalued role of object
Jack Yates, a long-term student of Wolfensberger’s work, is giving a number of (stand-alone) half-day workshops on human service history in March and April (each workshop covers the same material). The focus of the workshops… Read More »announcing a series of workshops on human service history by Jack Yates