Save the dates and start planning! 7th International Conference “Opening Doors to Good things in Life: Implementing Social Role Valorization” from June 6-8, 2018 plus pre-conference workshops on June 4 and 5, 2018 at the… Read More »7th international SRV conference
This radio interview contains much material that is instructive in terms of societal devaluation. One claim made in the interview is that these prisons, many of them for-profit, exploit the labor of the prisoners. If… Read More »radio interview ‘Exploring the shadow world of ICE prisons’
This article in the Winter 2017 issue of Making a Difference (published by the Georgia Council on Developmental Disabilities) includes an article by Dr. Pat Nobbie entitled ‘The rhythms and patterns of life.’ The article… Read More »Valuing Lives: Wolf Wolfensberger and the Principle of Normalization
The January 2017 issue of The SRV Journal is currently at the printers and will be mailed/emailed when completed. In the meantime, this is a list of the articles, reviews and columns: The Importance of… Read More »January 2017 issue of The SRV Journal is at the printers
The mission of Jesuit Worldwide Learning is to “provides tertiary learning to people and communities at the very edges of our societies – be it through poverty, location, lack of opportunity, conflict or forced displacement… Read More »Jesuit Worldwide Learning: Education at the Margins
An interesting Washington Post article (3 February 2017) to read and analyze from an Social Role Valorization perspective, including for points of heightened vulnerability, the process of social devaluation, interpersonal identification, etc. ‘My guardian angel’:… Read More »Washington Post article: He was homeless when they took him in.