Events

Distance Introduction to SRV

Online

Distance Introduction to SRV The Introduction to Social Role Valorization is an intensive workshop which presents the idea of assisting people with disabilities and other devalued conditions to have positive social roles as a productive and helpful response to wounding life experiences. Social Role Valorization is a comprehensive theory which provides insights as to why […]

Crafting an SRV Mindset for Organizational Change: An International SRV Association Study Session

Zoom Online Platform

Join Hope Leet Dittmeier and Charlotte Knight to explore the potential of Social Role Valorization (SRV), when well applied, to help societally devalued people to gain greater access to the good things of life. This session examines what it takes to craft an SRV mindset for coherent and courageous leadership, radical change strategies, and innovative […]

The Power of Roles

Online

The Power of Roles This workshop gives participants a practical introduction to the principles of Social Role Valorization. Through a combination of multimedia presentation and small group discussion, participants will learn about the phenomenon of social devaluation. This event includes discussion of how people with disabilities and other devalued groups have been systematically hurt and […]

Am I Connected? : A Discussion on Technology’s Capacity to Bring Us Together and Keep Us Apart (and the Impacts on Devalued People)

Zoom Online Platform

Technology has served as a primary connector for so many of us during the COVID-19 pandemic. Without it, the isolation, social distance, and inactivity may have had even more devastating impacts than what we did experience. While in some ways the pandemic did offer a somewhat urgent call to assist vulnerable people to access and […]

All Means All: A Workshop on Community Membership

Zoom Online Platform

A vision of inclusion means that all people, including people with disability, are fully included, and fully participate in the life of the community.