Jack Pealer from Ohio Safeguards has just published #51 of The Safeguards Letter, a publication well worth getting. The Letter includes stories, thoughtful quotations, reflections, announcement of upcoming training, reminiscences, poetry, mentions of books and… Read More »Safeguards Letter
Ray offered a necessary reminder that the efficacy of valued roles opening the door to the ‘good things of life’ is dependent on what the particular culture or society actually has to offer in terms… Read More »Ray Lemay: SRV and bridge building
This morning, day 3 of the SRV conference in Canberra, Susan Thomas started the day with a plenary. One of Susan’s key points focused on the largely post-production service-based economy found in most western countries,… Read More »Susan Thomas: Situating SRV in the larger social/societal context
Mitchel gave a brief overview of the Citizen Advocacy model. His main thesis was that the primary mission of Citizen Advocacy is generally to safeguard the welfare of a vulnerable person through one-to-one (or near… Read More »Mitchel Peters: Citizen Advocacy and valued roles
Janet shared several stories as well as an analysis of the nature of contribution, particularly contributions from and by societally devalued people in valued roles in typical contexts. Sharing of gifts and personal contributions are… Read More »Janet Kleese: The nature of contribution
Tom spoke about Citizen Advocacy as developed by Wolfensberger in the 1960s in Nebraska (US). He described Citizen Advocacy as a coherent service model (model coherency described in SRV: are the right people doing the… Read More »Tom Doody: The possibility and desirability of Citizen Advocacy