I am pleased to announce that we are going to run an SRV Journal ‘online conference’ starting in September 2013. The event will be entirely online and will be based on submitted papers (e.g., there… Read More »Announcing the 1st annual SRV Journal online conference
I am just looking through a copy of the 4th edition of ‘A Brief Introduction to Social Role Valorization’ by Wolf Wolfensberger, which includes the text of the 3rd edition, plus two additional articles, a… Read More »4th edition of the SRV monograph
One of the major role domains described by Wolfensberger (SRV monograph, 3rd (rev) ed., p. 30) is that associated with one’s residence or domicile. One of the socially valued roles within this domain is that… Read More »Socially valued role of neighbor
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
I saw this fairly new Citizen Advocacy website recently. Dr. Wolfensberger developed Citizen Advocacy. I believe that students and practitioners of SRV have much to learn from Citizen Advocacy, and vice versa. Marc Tumeinski
The article ‘Retirees opting for all-ages housing communities‘ (and this 2010 article as well) could be the basis for an interesting exercise for a study group, university or college class, staff training, etc. Such an… Read More »article: ‘Retirees opting for all-ages housing communities’