The SRV JOURNAL

TheISSN 1932 - 6963 SRV JOURNAL December 2007 • Volume 2 • Number 2 www.srvip.org ARTICLES J. Armstrong 9 “Wishing on a Star”: The Problems & Solutions of Relying on an ‘Inclusive Society’ to Foster & Provide a Better Life for People D. Race 17 Social Approaches to Valued Roles ~ Adam’s World Tour M. Peters 31 How SRV-Based Image Issues Can Inform Considerations of Advocate Identity & Recruitment in Citizen Advocacy D. Elks & 37 Implementing Social Role Valorization Across a Large Human Service E. Neuville Organization: Lessons & Learning REVIEWS & MORE J. O’Brien 46 ‘Leadership and Change in Human Services: Selected Readings from Wolf Wolfensberger’ by David G. Race (Compiler & Editor) L. Higgs 48 ‘Leadership and Change in Human Services: Selected Readings from Wolf Wolfensberger’ by David G. Race (Compiler & Editor) C. Lavallee 49 ‘Rachel’s Story’ by Kathy Senneker E. Preneta 50 ‘No One’s Perfect’ by Hirotada Ototake H. van Bommel 52 ‘Rethinking Palliative Care: A Social Role Valorisation Approach’ by Paul Sinclair R. Lemay 55 ‘Results of the Quantitative Assessment of the Quality of a Human Service Program: The Prescott-Russell Children’s Aid Society’ by Joe Osburn, Guy Caruso, & Debi Reidy M. Tumeinski 62 William Lloyd Garrison & the SRV Movement: Learning From an Historical Parallel POETRY J. Costner 45 Executive Summary: A Plan For a Statewide Residential Services Program TR A INING 69 Calendar of SRV & Related Trainings COLU M N W. Wolfensberger 70 Social Role Valorization News & Reviews The SRV JOURNAL Editorial Board: much experience in teaching or implementing SRV, as well Marc Tumeinski (US) Jane Barken (CAN) as those who are just beginning to learn about it, will con- Jo Massarelli (US) Joe Osburn (US) tribute to the Journal. We encourage readers & writers in a variety of roles & Editorial Advisory Board: from a variety of human service backgrounds to subscribe & John Armstrong (AU) Tom Kohler (US) to contribute. We do expect that writers who submit items Zana Lutfiyya (CAN) Nancy McNamara (CAN) will have at least a basic understanding of SRV, gained for Peter Millier (AU) David Race (UK) example by attendance at a multi-day SRV workshop (see Judith Sandys (CAN) Susan Thomas (US) this issue’s training calendar), by studying relevant resourc- Russell Vickery (NZ) Wolf Wolfensberger (US) es (see for example the last page of this journal), or both. We are particularly interested in receiving submissions Statement of Purpose: from family members, friends, & servers of devalued people We believe that Social Role Valorization (SRV), when who are trying to put the ideas of SRV into practice, even well applied, has potential to help societally devalued people if they do not consider themselves as ‘writers.’ Members of to gain greater access to the good things of life & to be our editorial boards will be available to help contributors spared at least some negative effects of social devaluation. with articles accepted for publication. The journal has an Toward this end, the purposes of this journal include: 1) academic peer review section for those who are interested. disseminating information about SRV; 2) informing readers of the relevance of SRV in addressing the devaluation of Information for Submissions: people in society generally & in human services particularly; We welcome well-reasoned, clearly-written submis- 3) fostering, extending, & deepening dialogue about, & un- sions. Language used in submitted items should be clear derstanding of, SRV; & 4) encouraging the application of & descriptive. We encourage the use of ordinary grammar SRV as well as SRV-related research. & vocabulary that a typical reader would understand. The We intend the information provided in this journal to Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association be of use to: family, friends, advocates, direct care workers, is one easily available general style guide. Academic authors managers, trainers, educators, researchers, & others in rela- should follow the standards of their field. We will not ac- tionship with or serving formally or informally upon deval- cept items simultaneously submitted elsewhere for publica- ued people in order to provide more valued life conditions tion or previously electronically posted or distributed. as well as more relevant & coherent service. Submissions are reviewed by members of the editorial Interested persons & ‘servers’ can do this primarily by board, the editorial advisory board, or both. Submissions helping devalued people to attain & maintain valued social may be made on paper, or electronically with an e-mail at- roles. Over the long run, such efforts will improve the life tachment, to the address below. situations overall of vulnerable people, increasing their ac- Examples of submission topics include but are not lim- cess to the good things of life. We sincerely hope that this ited to: SRV as relevant to a variety of human services; de- journal will contribute to such efforts. scriptions & analyses of social devaluation & wounding; The SRV Journal is published under the auspices of the descriptions & analyses of the impact(s) of valued roles; SRV Implementation Project (SRVIP). The mission of the illustrations of particular SRV themes; research into & de- SRVIP is to: confront social devaluation in all its forms, velopment of SRV theory & its themes; critique of SRV; including the deathmaking of vulnerable people; support analysis of new developments from an SRV perspective; positive action consistent with SRV; & promote the work success stories, as well as struggles & lessons learned, in try- of the formulator of SRV, Prof. Wolf Wolfensberger of the ing to implement SRV; interviews; reflection & opinion Syracuse University Training Institute. pieces; news analyses from an SRV perspective; book or movie reviews & notices from an SRV perspective. Editorial Policy: Informed and open discussions of SRV, & even con- Send Correspondence to: structive debates about it, help to promote its dissemina- Marc Tumeinski, Editor Phone: 508.752.3670 tion, relevance, & application. Therefore, we encourage The SRV Journal Fax: 508.752.4279 people with a range of experience with SRV to submit items 74 Elm Street Email: [email protected] for consideration of publication. We hope that those with Worcester, MA 01609 US Website: www.srvip.org FROM THE EDITOR We have a number of excellent articles and re- versity level, in workshop format, or within an views in this issue, including some on topics that agency or program), I encourage you to use this we do not often see examined from a Social Role journal as a resource for your students. Readers Valorization perspective. Also, the theme of in- have told us that they have copied particular jour- tegration is touched on by several articles in this nal articles and used them in their teaching, e.g., issue. Wolfensberger describes personal social in- as a discussion topic during a staff meeting, an tegration and valued social and societal partici- exercise for a small group, a handout, etc. One pation as requiring “(a) valued participation, (b) reader is using the journal as part of a ‘learning with valued people (c) in valued activities that institute.’ Another reader has made this journal a (d) take place in valued settings” (Wolfensberger, required text in a university course. 1998, p. 123). It is not surprising to read of this interest in per- The 4th International SRV Conference was sonal social integration and valued social partici- held in Ottawa in May of 2007. The theme of pation. Segregation is a commonplace reaction by the conference was “Crafting Valued Social Roles society to socially devalued people. The articles by for Socially Devalued People.” In this issue, we Race and Lemay touch on this, as well as the letter publish two papers from that conference: one by to the editor from Williams. John Armstrong and another by David Race. We Given this reality of segregation, conscious at- will publish additional papers in future issues. For tempts to reduce or eliminate particular instanc- those of you who presented a paper at this confer- es of segregation are necessary. Much of what is ence, consider submitting your conference paper. taught in Social Role Valorization can be helpful in such efforts. Peters’ article describes one aspect Regards, of an advocacy model, Citizen Advocacy, that in Marc Tumeinski part works at building positive, mutual relation- ships between socially devalued people and typical citizens. Lavallee’s and Preneta’s book reviews REFE R ENCE both describe personal efforts to counter segrega- Wolfensberger, W. (1998). A brief introduction to Social Role tion. Many of the workshops listed in the training Valorization: A high-order concept for addressing the plight of so- calendar (p. 69) describe segregation and SRV- cietally devalued people, and for structuring human services (3rd based efforts to counter it. ed.). Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Training Institute for Human Service Planning, Leadership & Change Agentry. For those readers in supervisory positions within human services, or who teach about human service issues (whether at the college or uni- If you know someone who you think would be interested in reading The SRV Journal, please send us their name and address, and we will mail them a complimentary issue. Thank you. LETTERS I would like to thank Aimee Lunden for her with mental illness. The word ‘handicap’ has been very positive review of my book Social Work with said to have connotations of begging and reliance People with Learning Difficulties in The SRV Jour- on charity if you turn it round to read ‘cap-in- nal (Vol. 2, No. 1). Perhaps I could make a brief hand.’ Most of us in Britain now avoid the term response to her point about language. ‘mental handicap,’ not as a ‘knee-jerk’ response It is true that language adopted by a group to militants in the self-advocacy movement, but about itself can increase separateness and col- because we are convinced by the rationale respon- lude in forces of social devaluation and exclusion.

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