• SRV Theory Outline
These workshops provide an extensive theoretical overview of SRV theory. Participants will have the opportunity to consider the process whereby people who are socially devalued in some way (perhaps because of such conditions as being old, disabled, mentally ill or poor) are excluded from valued social roles that form the basis of our participation in ordinary community life. The presentations will examine how individuals, human services and the wider society contribute to this devaluation process, and what positive steps can be taken to prevent this from happening. There will be opportunities to break into groups (six group sessions in all) to discuss and reflect upon the material presented in the lecture presentations.
• PASSING
The four primary goals of the PASSING workshop are to:
- train participants in the implications of Social Role Valorisation (SRV) to all services;
- enable participants to begin to develop competency as PASSING raters;
- provide a common orientation to a potentially locally administered evaluation system; and
- begin to identify and train potential raters and leaders for later PASSING training and implementation.
This workshop will introduce trainees to the third edition of PASSING which has been significantly revised from the earlier 2nd edition. 'PASSING' once having been an acronym for 'Program Analysis of Service Systems' Implementation of Normalization Goals, is now a brand for the tool which is the most recent method for quantitatively and objectively assessing the social role valorising quality of a human service, and which grew out of PASS, a more complex and broader human service evaluation tool. Unlike PASS, PASSING assesses only the social role valorising quality of human services, and is especially applicable to services to people with disabilities and/or people devalued for other reasons (eg., group residences, child development centres, special education programs, vocational programs. On-the-job training, rehabilitation settings etc.). Settings such as these will be evaluated by the participants as part of this workshop.