This Boston Globe op-ed piece about prisons and the high rate of incarceration in the US raises many SRV relevant points, such as: • the pervasive influence of non-programmatic factors, such as the employment and… Read More »op ed: ‘The prison boom comes home to roost’
This newspaper article could be the basis for a useful exercise for an SRV workshop or in a college class. It touches on a class of societally devalued people and related service structures that will… Read More »Newspaper article: ‘Starting Life Over’
This article and this one minute Japanese video describe a robot teddy bear: The hope is to use them for “robot therapy” in geriatric medicine for patients that suffer from dementia, says Fujitsu. In SRV… Read More »Robot teddy bears for elders
In our ongoing series of posts about favorite SRV resources, here are a few suggestions from Jane Sherwin, a Social Role Valorization trainer in Australia. Please send us your favorites and suggestions to us and… Read More »What are you reading (or watching or listening to)? #3
This NY Times article about a teacher has some good potential as a teaching exercise: in a workshop, staff meeting or university classroom. It can be used to raise questions and issues relevant to Social… Read More »‘Bent, not broken’ article in NY Times
If you haven’t gotten your hands on it yet, I recommend reading the 2009 book from Wolfensberger: Wolf Wolfensberger. Observing, Recording and Addressing Personal Physical Appearance by Means of the APPEAR Tool. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse… Read More »Book notice #3