Filmmaker Dan Habib has put together a 30 minute film on the use of restraint and seclusion in schools. It is free to use and show, and includes video of several students describing their experiences… Read More »video: Restraint and Seclusion: Hear Our Stories
I ran across two fairly recent articles (here and here) and reports (here and here) which speak to the human service use of restraints and the heightened vulnerability of societally devalued children and adults. Restraints can… Read More »The contemporary dangers of restraint use on societally devalued children and adults
In each issue of The SRV Journal, we publish a focus question, inviting our readers to individually and perhaps as part of a small study group to consider, reflect on and discuss the question. I… Read More »SRV Journal focus question from the June 2009 issue
We recently received an annual report from the Equal Justice Initiative, an organization that primarily works with poor defendants/prisoners who have not received fair treatment in the US court and corrections systems. One of their… Read More »Equal Justice Initiative
In the PASSING manual, Dr. Wolfensberger and Susan Thomas write that one of the few human service practices that does not have a culturally valued analog (CVA) is a prison (p. 31). A recent article… Read More »Youth prison