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Celebrating families. Simple, practical ways to enhance family life by Helen Sanderson and Maye Taylor
	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: · How to make your family routines work for everyone · Creative ways to let your children know what you appreciate about them · Original, simple tools to improve communication · Practical ways to clarify and share what is important to your family · How to help your children connect with their family history · Fun, imaginative ways to look at future hopes and dreams · How to celebrate and enjoy family life
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
	Order code: 02-B014 Price: £12.00 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.
Circles of adults. A team approach to problem solving around challenging behaviour and emotional needs by Derek Wilson and Colin Newton
		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
Circles of Friends by Robert Perske, illustrations by Martha Perske
		Order code: 04-B001 Price: £8.99 £6.00 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.
Community lost & found. A conversation between two dreamers by Arthur R. Lockhart, Michael Clark
		Order code: 02-B028 Price: £19.00 Format: 270x205mm 224pp paperback 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.
Conversations on Citizenship & Person-Centered Work edited by John O’Brien & Carol Blessing
		Order code: 02-B047 Price £16.15 Format: 215x140mm 145pp paperback Conversations with; Beth Mount, Diana Whitney, Michael Smull, Denise Bissonnette, Jack Pearpoint, Mike Green, Connie Ferrell, John O’Brien …approaches to person-centered work: Personal Futures Planning · MAPS · PATH · Person-Centered Thinking Tools Essential Lifestyle Planning · Cultivating True Livelihood · Framework for Support …approaches to organizational & community development: Appreciative Inquiry · Asset Based Community Development: ABCD in conversation with Carol Blessing about citizenship, community, disability, employment & social change. What does it take to make connections between people with disabilities and community associations? What drew you to your work? What keeps people with disabilities from full citizenship? What are the principles of effective supported employment? What do we have to give up in order to move to person-centered work? How do you judge the effectiveness of person-centered work? How does ABCD compliment person-centered practices? What are the risks of person-centered planning? Are there times when person-centered planning does not work? How do person-centered thinking skills contribute to change in organizations and systems? How do you respond to people who say that implementing person-centered work is too costly? What is citizenship? What is leadership? What inspires you? What is community? What does it take to sustain us in this work? Why is courage important in person-centered work? What are the core principles of Appreciative Inquiry? What strategies implement Appreciative Leadership
Creating Circles of Friends. A peer support and inclusion workbook by Colin Newton & Derek Wilson
		Order code: 20-B001 Price: £12.99 Format: 295x210mm 93pp paperback 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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