Keystone Institute India

As your leading-edge organization well knows, Keystone Institute India has been working to develop a set of 14 modules in three phases meant to provide a high-quality direct support preparation program. It is intended for promising supervisors as well as direct workers in special schools, vocational programs, recreational programs, day centers, and residential programs. This train-the-trainer course will happen over two face-to-face sessions and is offered only to specific organizations at this time.

Join us for two 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 Social Role Valorization as a strong foundation and using PATH and Personal Futures Planning as creative ways to imagine and plan for change. PATH is a planning process developed by Jack Pearpoint and John O'Brien, to assist people, groups, or organizations to move towards a positive future. Personal Futures Planning uses a foundation of capacity-based planning to design positive and possible futures. These tools are used by people with disabilities and their allies, including professionals, who wish to explore a different life course, and by associations of people looking to establish a vision along with a strategy to move towards it.

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.