The welfare of everyone lies in the welfare of each person and community inclusion is an integral part of it. Several organizations across India are working towards this through their Family Reunification and Community Inclusion programs for people with disabilities. Across India several models have emerged, and this get together will work towards deep collaboration, sharing of best practices, enhance capacity building for effective disability support and Family Reunification thereby promoting inclusive policies and practices within community and country.

Across India, change leaders committed to better lives for people with developmental and psychosocial disability are talking and learning about Social Role Valorization, a powerful set of ideas about how to assist people to have full, rich, meaningful lives. SRV provides a high-order framework for understanding the society in which we live, and the place people with disabilities tend to hold within in. As well, SRV thinking is accompanied by very practical implementation strategies to help people with disabilities have access to the good things of life.

Social Role Valorization principles contains many “gems” – ideas that have great power and applicability towards making life fuller and richer for those who are at risk of social devaluation. The culturally valued analogue, or CVA, is one such gem. In this workshop, we will explore this idea, applying ourselves to studying the natural pathways as a basis for strategies, methods, and tactics used to help people, especially those marginalized, to have valued roles and gain the good things of life. The simple yet potent use of the CVA in all your work toward a better life will help anchor you again and again.