Events

Creating Waves of Change: Inclusion Chats over Coffee

Keystone Institute India Exhibition Booth, Goa

Keystone Institute India welcomes all to join us for a deep conversation about inclusive practices at the Purple Fest booth over a cup of coffee!

Championing Inclusivity: Sharing Experiences in Employing People with Disabilities

Goa Chamber of Commerce and Industry Panjim, Goa

In today's rapidly evolving work landscape, the significance of fostering diversity and inclusion cannot be overstated. One critical facet of this inclusivity is the employment of people with disabilities. Through sharing our experiences in this endeavor, we aim to break down barriers, raise awareness, and inspire change.

Frontiers of Inclusive Practice: Integrated Studies at Millersville University

Chemistry Auditorium, Faculty Block E Goa University Campus, Taleigao

The college or university years for any young person is a powerful time of seasoning, maturation, growth, and networking, serving as a bridge to a successful career and productive life. Across the world, students with intellectual and developmental disabilities have been excluded from higher education and often from mainstream, typical schools. Dr. Thomas Neuville will discuss the program's founding, successful inclusive education principles, adapting materials, credentials, testing, overcoming faculty resistance, and working with students and families.

Toward Authentic Inclusion and Belonging: A Glimpse of Social Role Valorization Theory

Chemistry Auditorium, Faculty Block E Goa University Campus, Taleigao

Social Role Valorization (SRV) is a powerful set of ideas about assisting people to have full, rich, meaningful lives. SRV provides a high-order framework for understanding our society and the place people with disabilities tend to hold within it. SRV thinking is also accompanied by very practical implementation strategies to help people with disabilities have access to the good things in life. This overview event will present 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.

Foundations of Inclusive Practice: A Glimpse of SRV

Zoom Online Platform

Across India, change leaders committed to better lives for people with developmental and psychosocial disability are talking and learning about Social Role Valorization (SRV), 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. Please join us as we introduce participants to the basics of Social Role Valorization.

Planning Tools for Inclusive Practice: Creating Positive and Possible Futures

Keystone Human Services 3700 Vartan Way, Harrisburg, PA, United States

This course is intended to develop awareness in using PATH, Personal Futures Planning, and One Page Profiles. Participants will learn and practice powerful person-centered planning tools for creating positive visions and providing good supports to move towards the vision. Solution-seeking practices, deep listening, sharpened facilitation skills, capacity building, and practical implementation of PATH and MAPS tools are all part of this dynamic learning process.