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Planning Tools for Inclusive Practice: Dynamic Processes for Change

Join us for three days of learning, discovery, and design, as we explore visual and inclusive processes of envisioning the future, and design ways to move forward and create change. This course is intended to develop awareness in using PATH and Personal Futures Planning.

On a Role: Practical Aspects of Role Theory

For those with some knowledge of Social Role Valorization principles, and who are hungry for how to help people move into valued roles, this workshop is for you. How do you identify roles people might be interested in?

Foundations of Inclusive Practice: A Glimpse of SRV

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.

Seeing Is Believing…Believing Is Seeing: The Power of Mindsets

Mindsets are powerful shapers of action – our mindsets govern what we see, what we perceive, and how we respond to the world around us and the people we encounter.

Certificate Course in Applied Customized Employment

Work gives people a sense of purpose and self-worth. For many, it defines our identity and is a source of pride. Employment not only provides income and economic independence but also opportunities for rich social interactions and a sense of belonging.

Valued Lives: SRV 4.0

Valued Lives is being offered as a Residential Certificate Course to select thought leaders and emerging influencers of practice from across India. This body of knowledge was offered in India for the first time in 2016, and the impact was immense.

Best Part of Me

What are the best parts of ourselves which we bring to the work we do? Best Part of Me aims to identify and acknowledge the gifts people have and bring to their work. Deep in the discussion comes the principle that personal values are the basis for professional values. Exploration of those values lead us...

Eugenics Past, Present, and Future: The American War Against the Weak

There have been many ideologies throughout history which have shaped society’s treatment of “others.” Few have been more powerful or had more devastating impacts than the Eugenics movement, the ideas of which were most fully developed in the United States at the turn of the century and adopted by Germany in the early 1920s with...

Moral Treatment: A Forgotten Success

The history of society’s treatment of people with mental disorders reveals, time after time, that backsliding almost always follows progress in our understanding and response to people with mental differences. Periods of enlightenment have been followed by periods of darkness, with long stretches of neglect in between. On the heels of brutality and some of...

Heroes of the Disability Rights Movement

For people living with physical and/or intellectual disabilities, access to the world and basic human rights has never been a “given.” In fact, throughout history people living with disabilities have often had their rights withheld and even oppressed by professionals, legislators, and society at large.

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