The SRV JOURNAL ISSN 1932 - 6963 June 2007 • Volume 2 • Number 1 Roles Based Planning: A Thoughtful Approach to Social Inclusion and Empowerment by Scott Ramsey Around the Corner: A Neighborhood-Based Job Initiative for Teenagers by Marc Tumeinski Valued Social Roles and the Necessity of Values-Based Leadership by Michael Kendrick INTERVIEWS: Mike Morton by Joe Osburn Judy Bilderbeck by Marc Tumeinski In Memoriam: R.S., a Wounded Life by Susan Thomas Remembering Mr. Sinclair by James Brunault Reviews by Wolf Wolfensberger, Susan Thomas, Aimee Lunden, John Ford, Cheryl MacNeil, Jack Pealer & Raymond Lemay The New (3rd, 2007) Edition of PASSING by Susan Thomas & Wolf Wolfensberger Report From a Newly-Formed SRV Study Group in Ontario SRV News and Reviews by Wolf Wolfensberger The SRV JOURNAL June 2007 • Volume 2 • Number 1 ARTICLES S. Ramsey 4 Roles Based Planning: A Thoughtful Approach to Social Inclusion and Empowerment M. Tumeinski 15 Around the Corner: A Neighborhood-Based Job Initiative for Teenagers M. Kendrick 22 Valued Social Roles and the Necessity of Values-Based Leadership INTERVIEWS J. Osburn 25 Mike Morton, Executive Director of Community Ventures in Living (USA) M. Tumeinski 33 Judy Bilderbeck, Executive Director of Access Ability (New Zealand) VIGNETTES S. Thomas 39 In Memoriam: R.S., a Wounded Life J. Brunault 43 Remembering Mr. Sinclair REVIEWS W. Wolfensberger 13 ‘Roles Based Planning: A Thoughtful Approach to Social Inclusion and & S. Thomas Empowerment’ by Scott Ramsey A. Lunden 45 ‘Social Work With People With Learning Difficulties’ by Paul Williams J. Ford 47 ‘Mad in America: Bad Science, Bad Medicine, and the Enduring Mistreatment of the Mentally Ill’ by Robert Whitaker C. MacNeil 49 ‘Mad in America: Bad Science, Bad Medicine, and the Enduring Mistreatment of the Mentally Ill’ by Robert Whitaker J. Pealer 52 ‘Do Not Go Gently’ by Melissa Godoy R. Lemay 54 ‘Common Assets of Mentally Retarded People That Are Commonly Not Acknowledged’ by Wolf Wolfensberger TRAINING S. Thomas & 58 The New (3rd, 2007) Edition of PASSING W. Wolfensberger 63 Report From a Newly-Formed SRV Study Group in Ontario 64 Calendar of SRV and Related Trainings COLUMN W. Wolfensberger 65 Social Role Valorization News and Reviews mit items for consideration of publication. We hope that those with much experience in teaching or implementing The SRV JOURNAL SRV, as well as those who are just beginning to learn about it, will contribute to the Journal. Editorial Board: We encourage readers and writers in a variety of roles Marc Tumeinski (US) and from a variety of human service backgrounds to Jo Massarelli (US) Production Editor: subscribe and to contribute. We do expect that writers Joe Osburn (US) Susanne Hartfiel (US) who submit items will have at least a basic understand- ing of SRV, gained for example by attendance at a Associate Editors: multi-day SRV workshop, by studying relevant re- John Armstrong (AU) Tom Kohler (US) sources (see for example the last page of this journal), or Zana Lutfiyya (CAN) Nancy McNamara (CAN) both. Peter Millier (AU) David Race (UK) We are particularly interested in receiving submissions Judith Sandys (CAN) Susan Thomas (US) from family members, friends and servers of devalued Russell Vickery (NZ) Wolf Wolfensberger (US) people who are trying to put the ideas of SRV into prac- tice, even if they do not consider themselves as ‘writers.’ Members of our editorial boards will be avail- Statement of Purpose: able to help contributors with articles accepted for publi- We believe that Social Role Valorization (SRV), when cation. The journal may also have an academic peer re- well applied, has the potential to help societally deval- view section for those who are interested. ued people to gain greater access to the good things of life, and to be spared at least some of the negative ef- fects of social devaluation. Information for Submissions: Toward this end, the purposes of this journal include: We welcome well-reasoned and clearly-written submis- 1) disseminating information about SRV; 2) informing sions. The language used in submitted items should be readers of the relevance of SRV in addressing the de- clear and descriptive. We encourage the use of ordinary valuation of people in society generally and in human grammar and vocabulary that a typical reader would un- services particularly; 3) fostering, extending and deepen- derstand. The Publication Manual of the American Psy- ing dialogue about, and understanding of, SRV; and 4) chological Association is one good and easily available encouraging the application of SRV, as well as SRV-re- general style guide. Academic authors should follow the lated research. standards of their field. We will not accept items simul- We intend the information provided in this journal to taneously submitted elsewhere for publication or previ- be of use to: family, friends, advocates, direct care ously electronically posted or distributed. workers, managers, trainers, educators, researchers, and Submissions are reviewed by members of the editorial others in relationship with or serving formally or infor- board, the editorial advisory board, or both. Submis- mally upon devalued people in order to provide more sions may be made on paper, or electronically with an e- valued life conditions as well as more relevant and co- mail attachment, to the address below. herent service. Examples of submission topics include but are not Interested persons and ‘servers’ can do this primarily limited to: SRV as relevant to a wide variety of human by helping devalued people to attain and maintain val- services; descriptions and analyses of social devaluation ued social roles. Over the long run, such efforts will im- and wounding; descriptions and analyses of the prove the life situations overall of vulnerable people, in- impact(s) of valued social roles; illustrations of particu- creasing their access to the good things of life. We sin- lar SRV themes; research into and development of the cerely hope that this journal will contribute to such ef- theory of SRV and its particular themes; critique of forts. SRV; analysis of new developments from an SRV per- The SRV Journal is published under the auspices of spective; success stories, as well as struggles and les- the SRV Implementation Project (SRVIP). The mission sons learned, in trying to implement SRV; interviews; of the SRVIP is to: confront social devaluation in all its reflection and opinion pieces; news analyses from an forms, including the deathmaking of vulnerable people; SRV perspective; book or movie reviews and notices support positive action consistent with SRV; and pro- from an SRV perspective. mote the work of the formulator of SRV, Prof. Wolf Wolfensberger of the Syracuse University Training Insti- tute. Send all correspondence to: Marc Tumeinski, Editor Phone: 508 752 3670 The SRV Journal Fax: 508 752 4279 Editorial Policy: 74 Elm Street Informed and open discussions of SRV, and even con- Worcester, MA 01609 USA structive debates about it, help to promote its dissemi- Website: www.srvip.org nation, relevance and application. Therefore, we encour- Email: [email protected] age people with a range of experience with SRV to sub- Dear reader, WELCOME to the third issue of The SRV THE 4th International SRV Conference was Journal. This issue has a number of timely ar- held in Ottawa in May of 2007. The theme of ticles, including a description and analysis of a the conference was “Crafting Valued Social new human service planning approach (also Roles for Socially Devalued People.” For see the training calendar on page 64 for a rele- those of you who presented a paper at this vant upcoming workshop on Social Role Val- conference, please consider submitting your orization [SRV] and Person Centered conference paper for possible publication in Planning), the launching of a new SRV study this journal. Future journal issues will publish group, as well as a review of a recently pre- papers from the conference. If you presented miered film. but did not prepare a paper, consider submit- A few of the articles in this issue deal with ting a manuscript based on your presentation. the same topic; for example, we asked two If you did not present but attended and were different reviewers to write about the same struck by something you heard at the confer- somewhat controversial book dealing with the ence, consider submitting a manuscript or let- mental health field; we have two interviews ter to us on that particular issue. Contact me with agency directors with different depths of at the address below for further information. experience with SRV; and we also include a critical book review concerning the topic of I WELCOME in general your submissions of the article mentioned in the previous para- manuscripts for possible publication. Your graph which describes a new service planning particular interest in SRV will be instructive approach. This focus on different looks at the for our readers. Our readers are from the US, same topic was an intentional effort on the Canada, Great Britain, Australia, New Zea- part of our editorial board to encourage dis- land, Norway and Germany. They come from cussion of important human service issues a variety of human service backgrounds and from an SRV perspective. interests, and depths of experience with SRV. We are also open to hearing your sugges- FOR THOSE of our readers in supervisory tions of new formats and ideas for this jour- positions within human services, or who nal. If you have any suggestions, please send teach about human service issues (whether at them to the address below. And if you find the college or university level, in workshop this journal helpful, why not recommend it to format, or within an agency or program), I en- your colleagues? Information on subscribing courage you to use this journal as a resource can be found at our website (www.srvip.org).