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Building Valued Social Roles
Narrated by Beth Mount, this excerpt from our module “Valued Social Roles” explains the importance of helping people to build wide, deep and sustaining relationships.
This module is written by Marc Tumeinski from the Social Role Valorization (SRV) Implementation Project. Marc uses his intimate knowledge of SRV to help learners to reflect on both the barriers to the “Good Things of Life” and how valued social roles may help the people we support to have greater access to these good things.
This module includes video presentations from Marc Tumeinski, Gary Kent, Beth Mount, Steve Dymond, Jack Pearpoint, and Simon Duffy.
On successful completion of this module, learners will be able to:
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- Describe related elements of social devaluation: negative perception followed by negative treatment.
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- Describe a shared practice of human service involving vision, attitudes, and skills and actions.
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- Understand and articulate a shared practice for supporting the people you support.
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- Describe the “good things in life” and valued social roles with examples, and also explain how they are linked.
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- Describe devalued roles as wounds, how these occur, and what the consequences of these wounds may be.
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- Understand and articulate skills and attitudes which support our vision including: Stepping into the shoes of the people you support, serving one person at a time, and holding high, positive expectations for the people you support and for ourselves.
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- Describe how rejection, distancing, and communication can be potential barriers to applying this vision.
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- Explain how you can be a better listener.
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- Explain how person-centered planning can help to raise possibilities and expectations.
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- Understand the importance of, and how to enhance image and competency, and how to avoid the associated challenges that may include life wasting, lost opportunities, and society’s own perception.
Everyone Can Learn
https://youtu.be/jv3PpiItWf0
Heather Simmons shares an insightful story illuminating the idea that people of all abilities have the ability to learn giving the opportunity.
Although Heather was originally from Scotland she now lives in Perth Australia where, with her husband Richard Hill, they operate a company called h2 Training and Consulting that focuses on training staff who work with and for people with disabilities.
Heather has worked extensively in diverse roles with the disability sector since 1994. Including roles as a support worker, group home manager, team leader, and development worker.
Heather has many stories to tell… and her passion is working in the ‘grey areas’ of human services. She loves the challenge of finding ways of applying the ideas she talks about everyday to the day to day practice of working in the disability.