Jack Pealer from Ohio Safeguards has just published #51 of The Safeguards Letter, a publication well worth getting. The Letter includes stories, thoughtful quotations, reflections, announcement of upcoming training, reminiscences, poetry, mentions of books and… Read More »Safeguards Letter
Guy Caruso gave a plenary presentation this morning (based on a paper written by Guy and Joe Osburn, and edited by the late Wolf Wolfensberger) in which he analyzed the concept and practice of ‘best… Read More »Guy Caruso: looking at ‘best practice’ from an SRV perspective
Susan Thomas and Mike Duggan gave brief presentations on the history of Wolf Wolfensberger’s work. Susan worked for and with Wolf for 38 years. She is a primary trainer of SRV and PASSING, plus… Read More »Tribute to the work of Wolf Wolfensberger
If you haven’t gotten your hands on it yet, I recommend reading the 2009 book from Wolfensberger: Wolf Wolfensberger. Observing, Recording and Addressing Personal Physical Appearance by Means of the APPEAR Tool. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse… Read More »Book notice #3
Jeff McNair of CalBaptist University posted in his blog recently about the social devaluation of impaired people within and by churches (and I would assume, by extension, by synagogues, mosques, etc.). McNair is touching on… Read More »Churches and devalued people: ‘Good Samaritan’ parable
Wolfensberger’s April 2010 article (and recent workshops being taught in Massachusetts and Ontario) on how services should function in times of shrinking financial resources is generating lots of comments. This blog has several lengthy posts… Read More »Another blog posting about Wolfensberger’s article on shrinking financial resources