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About Elizabeth "Betsy" Neuville

Elizabeth "Betsy" Neuville has served as the Executive Director of The Keystone Institute for well over a decade. She has many years of experience as a human service worker, administrator, agency director, evaluator, educator and personal advocate. She has extensive experience designing and developing supports for very vulnerable people, as she served for many years as the Executive Director of a human service agency. During this time, she assisted over 200 people to leave institutions and establish themselves as valued and contributing members of their communities. She has been deeply involved with the closure of several large institutions in the US and abroad and has experience using individualized processes to assist people to gain valued roles and the full, rich, community life that often accompany such roles.

Betsy has worked extensively with the ideas of Normalization and Social Role Valorization and provides a great deal of training and consultation nationally and internationally. She has worked in de-institutionalization and community-based service development projects in many places, with an emphasis on Eastern Europe.

Betsy can be reached at: The Keystone Institute
940 East Park Drive, Suite 200
Harrisburg, PA. 17557
717-909-9425
eneuvill@keystonehumanservices.org