One of the points made in the explanation of societal devaluation, in the SRV monograph authored by Wolfensberger (e.g., page 40 in the 4th expanded edition) and in SRV leadership level workshops, is that societal… Read More »book review: ‘No Place to Call Home: Inside the Real Lives of Gypsies and Travellers’
The New York Times has been running a series of articles on the state human service system for impaired people. See also this related article. Much of the material is quite painful to read, watch… Read More »Human service system in New York (US)
One of my (admittedly narrow) interests in human service history has been in the location of various types of human service programs, including but not limited to prisons, on islands. This NY Times article describes… Read More »Iwawa Island, Rwanda