Celebrating the Ordinary: the Emergence of Options in Community Living As a Thoughtful Organization - Softcover

John O'Brien; Gail Jacob; Connie Lyle O'Brien

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1895418348 ISBN 13: 9781895418347

Publisher: Inclusion Press and Options in Community Living, 1998

Synopsis

Options in Community Living is a small local agency supporting people with developmental disabilities in community life. As far as we know, they were among the first residential service programs to see their central task as supporting people in their own place rather than supervising & training people for readiness to live independently. This book looks at Options from the point of view of the staff who work as Community Support Workers, Team Co-ordinators and Directors. These people plan, provide, and co-ordinate the assistance that people with developmental disabilities require. Included are an essay in eight chapters that describes and analyses Options from the point of view of interested outsiders; stories and pictures created by Options staff as they reflected on their work; a set of policies and other papers that document Options as an organisation.

Edition details

• Publisher: Inclusion Press and Options in Community Living
• Publication date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1895418348
• ISBN 13: 9781895418347
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 246