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SRV - VRS
The International Social Role Valorization Journal
Countering devaluation through valued social roles.

(ISSN 1195-4760)
SRV - VRS, a French and English periodical, is published twice a year.  It contains articles, critiques, debates, reviews, anecdotes and viewpoints that relate to Social Role Valorization (SRV), its predecessor -the principle of normalization- service evaluation based on normalization and SRV criteria such as with the PASS and PASSING assessment instruments.  VRS is the abbreviation of the French term for SRV, Valorisation des Rôles Sociaux.

SRV - VRS aims to develop and disseminate SRV, but also welcomes any critical assessment or review that  might contribute to the refinement, strengthening or correction of SRV.

SRV - VRS is also intended to serve as forum for the many people around the world who have received training in SRV, who want to implement and refine it, and who teach and promote it.  SRV - VRS welcomes submissions, and especially likes to hear from new voices in the SRV culture.  SRV - VRS is a publication aimed at supporting and promoting the SRV movement but also welcomes any critical assessment or review that  might contribute to its strengthening.

SRV - VRS  is an essential tool for people who are serious about SRV.
 

Some of the contributors to SRV-VRS
Alain DUPONT, John DURAND,  Robert FLYNN, Michael KENDRICK, Raymond LEMAY, John McKNIGHT, Peter MILLIER, Bengt NIRJE,   John O’BRIEN, Joe, OSBURN, Jacques PELLETIER, Deborah REIDY, Judith SANDYS, Michael STEER, Susan THOMAS, Tony WAINWRIGHT, Paul WILLIAMS, Wolf WOLFENSBERGER, and Jack YATES

Some of the topics that have been covered:
An analysis of the client role;
Why SRV is important;
SRV-related vocational training and placement;
Critique of the term “Social Role Valorization”;
Stories of the power of social roles in individual lives;
Reflections on “community”;
The 1995 United Nations’ Standard Rules in light of SRV.
Each issue also contains a column by Wolf Wolfensberger of SRV News and Reviews that reports on and interprets publications of relevance to SRV, including research reports.
SRV - VRS publishes documents and reports developed by the North American SRV Development, Training, & Safeguarding Council.

(May 1st, 1998)
The International SRV Journal:
key information about ensuring the good things in life for the devalued people of your communities.

The International SRV Journal:
a good way to keep up to-date about SRV, Normalization, PASS and PASSING.
 
 

Subscription rates (May 1st, 1998)
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