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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Change and growth, learning new things, acquiring skills and developing competencies – they are essential to living a full life for all humankind. Helping vulnerable people to do so is the inherent work of personal human service.