The NY Times Magazine (7 July 2024) included a long essay by a daughter about her father who had developed dementia. One relatively brief section of the essay included a description of a human service… Read More »Easy Street and Town Square
A 29 June 2024 article in the Boston Globe entitled ‘A Massachusetts town is divided after a closed state prison reopened as an emergency shelter for migrant families’ by Madison Hahamy and Shannon Larson describes “the reopening… Read More »article ‘‘A Massachusetts town is divided after a closed state prison reopened as an emergency shelter for migrant families’article ‘
I am reading through the volume of papers from the May 2023 festschrift honoring the life and work of Dr. Wolfensberger, which is now available for purchase from Valor Press. Chapter six on the Pennsylvania… Read More »The Training Institute’s Pennsylvania Evaluation Project – Joe Osburn
This 2014 op ed in the NY Times relates to the Social Role Valorization (SRV) theme of competency enhancement, in this case, as related to the role of student. It examines ways that group size… Read More »Group size matters
According to a recent BBC news item, young men and women jailed in Senegal are taking classes in fencing once a week. BBC news CNN news Many elements of this story illustrate aspects of Social… Read More »Fencers
Both the PASSING tool (manual) and the PASSING workshop are high quality resources that can help to make SRV theory concrete, practical and ‘implementable.’ For example, the PASSING tool (manual) includes 42 distinct ratings, and… Read More »From study to implementation: SRV and PASSING (tip #1)