Events

JOBS717 Virtual Job Fair

Online

Start the new year with a new career where you make a difference in people’s lives every day. Learn about Keystone Human Services and our Mental Health Services at the virtual JOBS717 job fair and get started on your new career supporting people in recovery from mental health conditions. You’ll learn about our open positions in the 717 area code in central PA.

Distance Introduction to Social Role Valorization

Online

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 certain groups of people become devalued in society, what life experiences are likely to befall people once they have become devalued in the eyes of others, why valued social roles are a powerful response in combatting the negative life experiences, and ten essential themes which can guide implementers in pursuing valued roles by, with, and for those practitioners desire to serve.

Foundations of Inclusive Practice: A Glimpse of SRV

Online

Across India, change leaders committed to better lives for people with developmental and psychosocial disability are talking about 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 it. As well, SRV thinking is accompanied by very practical implementation strategies to help people with disabilities have access to the good things of life.

Foundations of Inclusive Practice: A Glimpse of SRV (Bengali)

Online

Across India, change leaders committed to better lives for people with developmental and psychosocial disability are talking about 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 it. As well, SRV thinking is accompanied by very practical implementation strategies to help people with disabilities have access to the good things of life.

The Power of Roles

Online

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 harmed by society, and what the impact of that devaluation has been. Participants will also learn about ways to help people have better lives by supporting them to achieve positive valued social roles. We will discuss practical strategies to make this a reality for the people you support.

Healthcare Job Fair

Start your career supporting people in mental health recovery. Learn about Keystone Human Services and our Mental Health Services at the Healthcare Job Fair at Dauphin County CareerLink. You’ll learn how you can make a difference as you walk beside people in their recovery journey from mental health conditions.