We recently had the wonderful opportunity to spend some time with Jeff McNair, a professor at California Baptist University. He was in Massachusetts to give a talk about integration and faith communities. (Tom Doody, a… Read More »Book notice #4
I don’t know anything about this agency but we ran across a newsletter for an organization called AmeriServe International, located in Iowa (US). The article on the front page discusses valued social roles, the ‘good… Read More »valued social roles referenced in an AmeriServe International newsletter
I recently ran across this 2 page information sheet, from an agency in Australia, which describes an employment service from a specifically Social Role Valorization perspective. The info. sheet makes reference to the 2006 article… Read More »‘Work and Social Role Valorization’
Take a look at the following video from a Social Role Valorization perspective: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQt_Rq1mStE What lessons can we learn from this brief video? And what implications might these lessons have in terms of how we… Read More »‘Smart home’
Requiescat in pace. 1934-2011 Wolf Wolfensberger, Ph.D., 76, of Syracuse, New York, died on February 27, 2011, at St. Joseph’s Hospital. Since 1973, Dr. Wolfensberger was a… Read More »Dr. Wolf Wolfensberger: requiescat in pace
A 16 January 2011 NY Times article entitled ‘Tiniest patients discover meals made to order‘ underscores several points made in Social Role Valorization and the PASSING manual. The article describes recent efforts at improving hospital… Read More »‘Tiniest patients discover meals made to order:’ NY Times article