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TIPS - The Training Institute Publication Series
TIPS Editorial Policy:
TIPS was begun in 1981, & comes out in six or fewer but combined, issues per year. Combined issues of TIPS, such as a double or triple issue, contain two or three times the usual amount of copy. This allows some topics to be treated in depth, and save on postage costs. TIPS contains articles, news, insights, reviews and viewpoints that relate to the interests & mission of the Training Institute. At the present, this mission has to do with reading 'the signs of the times,' & interpreting their meaning for human services. This necessitates that TIPSaddress some of the larger issues which affect our society & the ways in which decisions are made in it, because these higher phenomena will eventually express themselves in human services in various ways, including human service values, funding & practices. Usually each TIPS issue focuses primarily o one major theme. Examples from past issues have been Crazeology; Deathmaking; Human Service News; Poverty & the Poor; Social Advocacy; Social Role Valorization; War & peace; Crime, Punishment & prisons; & Homelessness. TIPS addresses relevant developments whenever & wherever they occur, so disclosures of adaptive or horrific developments promoted by a particular political party or government should not be taken as partisan political statements. We assume that subscribers are people who lead hard lives struggling against hard odds, & are aware of the many shortcomings in human services. Thus we try to inject levity into TIPS so as to make subscribers' lives more bearable (or less unbearable, as the case may be), even if not deliriously joyful. In fact, the 'signs of the times' tend to be depressing, & thus much TIPS content is in need of levitation. TIPS tries to report developments truthfully, but since it gets many items from other sources, it cannot be responsible for errors contained in the original sources. In order to save space, published sources for items are abbreviated when cited--just enough to help us recover the full citation if a reader requests it. Items that are not attributed to other sources or writers are to be considered authored by the publisher/editor of the newsletter. Anyone wishing to reproduce items from TIPS should contact the TI Training Coordinator for permission & terms.
The Training Institute:
The Training Institute for Human Service Planning, Leadership & Change Agentry (TI), directed by Wolf Wolfensberger, PhD, is part of Syracuse University's School of Education. Dr.Wolfensberger is a research professor in that School. Since its founding in 1973, the TI has never applied for federal grants, & has been supported primarily by fees earned from speaking events & workshops across the world, & to a small extent from consultations, evaluations of servics, the sale of certain publications & planning & change agentry tools ( see "TI Publications" below), subscriptions to TIPS. TI training has: (a) been aimed primarily at people who are or aspire to be leaders & change agents, be they professionals, public decision-makers, members of voluntary citizen action groups, students, etc; & (b) primarily emphasixed high-level concepts & values related to formal & informal human services, the rendering of compassionate & comprehensive community services, & greater societal acceptance of impaired & devalued citizens.
Invitation to Submit Items for Publication.
We invite submissions of items that appear suitable for TIPS. These may include "raw" clippings, "evidence," reviews of publications or human service "products," human service dreams (or nightmares), survice vignettes, aphorisms or apothegms, relevant poetry, satires, or brief original articles. We particularly welcome items telling of positive (but not tritely positive) development, since bad news is so frequent as to be the norm. Send only material you don't need back, because you won't get it back. If we don't goof, & if the submitter does not object, submissions that are used will be credited.
Dissemination of TIPS.
Readers are requested to draw the attention of others to TIPS, & to encourage them to subscribe. A subscription/renewal form is found on the back of each issue. Please consider photocopying this form & forwarding it to potential subscribers. Also, we appreciate subscribers announcing the availability of TIPS in other newsletters and periodicals.
TIPS Back-Issues Available.
TIPS tries to have a supply of back-issues available for new subscribers who wish to complete their set. Let us know what you need, & we will negotiate a package price.
TI Publications.
The TI sells or recommends a number of items relevant to its mission, & lists them on a :publication list" which is updated regularly. If you want one or more copies, please let us know.
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