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Celebrating families. Simple, practical ways to
enhance family life
by
Helen Sanderson and Maye Taylor
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Order code:
21-B010 Price: £14.95
Format: 235 x 180mm
143pp paperback
Do you know what
is important to your children, and what they like about themselves?
Do they know how
you really feel about them?
And does it
matter?
Celebrating
families is a practical guide for parents. It’s all about
appreciating each individual in your family and discovering how they prefer
to negotiate a path through life. It’s about ensuring that what is
important to all members of your family (including you, the parent) are met
as fully as possible.
In the book you
will find tried and tested techniques; family strengthening strategies that
you can use with ease. It collects and shares examples contributed by a
great number of families - of every shape and size. It offers advice about
how you can adapt these strategies for your own family and record and share
the results.
Celebrating
families can show you:
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How to make your family
routines work for everyone
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Creative ways to let your
children know what you appreciate about them
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Original, simple tools to
improve communication
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Practical ways to clarify
and share what is important to your family
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How to help your children
connect with their family history
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Fun, imaginative ways to
look at future hopes and dreams
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How to celebrate and enjoy
family life
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Celebrating the Ordinary. The
emergence of options in community living as a thoughtful organisation
by John O'Brien, Connie Lyle
O'Brien and Gail Jacob
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Order
code: 02-B014 Price: £11.50
Format: 275 x 210mm 248pp paperback
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 and 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.
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Change Picture Bank
by Change
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Order code: 24-B005 Price: dependant on status (see below)
Wire bound book and CD
ROM set
The
Change Picture Bank CD Rom and Pack is for people with learning
disabilities, people who work with people with learning disabilities and
people who give services. You can use the pictures to help make your
information easier to understand. You can photocopy the pictures and stick
them onto your information or you can make use of the images directly from
the CD on your PC or Mac.
The
pack also gives lots of ideas on how to make your information easier to
understand, including drawing your own pictures or adapting the CDs images,
using easy words and writing in easy ways.
Pricing
(inc VAT): Organisation managed by people with disabilities £70.50
Small
voluntary sector organisation annual turnover below £100,000 £141.00
Larger
voluntary sector organisation annual turnover above £100,000 £258.50
Social
Services, Health or Education Authority £352.50
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Circles of adults. A team approach to problem solving
around challenging behaviour and emotional needs
by Derek Wilson and Colin Newton
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Order code: 20-B003 Price: £19.95
Format: 300 x 210mm
62pp paperback
“I am delighted to see a book on the market that
is encouraging the use of reflective problem solving in groups of school
staff, multi agency teams, and in fact any group concerned with real human
problems. This is an overdue resource, which I hope will be used by many
schools to meet the needs of supervision in education. Contains much sound
advice and guidance.” Kate Spohrer, Behaviour Advisory Teacher,
Sandwell
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Circles of Friends
by Robert Perske, illustrations by Martha Perske
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Order code: 04-B001
Price: £8.99
Format: 275x215mm 94pp paperback
In this warm,
sensitive collection, Robert and Martha Perske offer true stories and
issues to ponder, concerning Circles of Friends - friendships between
people with disabilities and so-called normal. They show how these circles
cut across age groups, generations and races, and how the hearts and
worldviews of everyone can be enriched. The emphasis here is on pure and
simple friendship.
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Common sense leadership. A handbook for success
as a leader
by Roger Fulton
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Order code: 18-B014 Price: £8.99
Format: 215 x 125mm
134pp paperback
Leadership is not a mysterious phenomenon. It is a
combination of skills and observable behaviours that can be learned. This
is a practical manual designed to teach the qualities and concerns of a
good leader to anyone new to or experienced in a leadership position. Here
you’ll find the winning combination of Fulton’s solid advice teamed with
wisdom of experts from throughout the ages.
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Community
lost & found. A conversation between two dreamers
by
Arthur R. Lockhart, Michael Clark
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Order code: 02-B028
Price: £14.00
Format: 270x205mm
224pp
Ideal as a text for Capacity Building
and Community Development courses. Workbook format complete with practical
exercises.
Arthur and Michael have decades of experience on the
streets and with people who have been excluded. They have created
successful programs for people who most say cannot succeed. This book is
about their experiences - and how they did it - so you can do it. It is a
guide with practical experience and lessons. If you are organizing complex
programs for people labelled difficult, or if you are wondering “what
should I do?” - this is the book for you.
“As our organization engages students in
positive social change, this book provides the background and the strategy
we need to realize our vision.” Dave Kranenburg, Meal Exchange.
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Creating Circles of Friends. A peer support
and inclusion workbook
By Colin Newton & Derek Wilson
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First published in 1999, Circles of Friends has been
quickly acclaimed as a primary support approach to enhancing the inclusion
of any child where social and emotional factors may lead to rejection or isolation.
As problem-sharing peers were learning to share with one specifically needy
child, solutions to situations that all of them will have experienced at
some time, the approach was realised as being of relevance to all others -
nowhere more so than in the secondary school context.
“If
schools are to move closer to welcoming all children and supporting each
pupil to be an active and successful learner, we need to mobilise all
available resources. Though children and young people can make an unparalleled
contribution to one another’s success, their capacities are too often
overlooked. Colin and Derek draw on their extensive experience with circles
of support to offer a practical guide with deep roots in the educational
power of positive relationships.”
John O’Brien, Responsive Systems Associates
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