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Make A Difference. A guidebook for Person-Centered Direct Support By John O’Brien and Beth Mount
	Order code: 02-B030 Price: £16.00 Format: 275 x 210 mm 161pp paperback As a direct support worker you can choose to make a positive difference in the lives of the people you assist. If you choose to make a positive difference, you will join the direct support workers in this book. These workers deserve to be called “Everyday Heroes” because, day after day, they support people with disabilities to act as full citizens who make a worthwhile contribution to their communities. Direct support work is seldom glamorous and it is not a way to become rich in money, but it can be important and it can be rich in human relationships if you decide to make it so. This book comes from what we have learned from direct support workers as they step back from the busy-ness of their work and ask themselves, “When we are at our very best, what works to improve the lives of the people we support?” and “What makes our work worth doing?” The ideas and activities you find in this guidebook have met this test: direct support workers, people with disabilities, and family members have used them and found them helpful.
Members of Each Other. Building community in company with people with developmental disabilities by John O'Brien and Connie Lyle O'Brien
	Order code: 02-B009 Price: £17.00 Format: 275 x 205 mm 142pp paperback Thoughts, tools, stories to help build a future where friendship and community are the norm. A thoughtful collection of essays and reflections by John and Connie Lyle O'Brien which offers a perspective on disability, community and service practice and policy. This is a book relevant for all of us who want to build friendships and community, not only for people with developmental disabilities, but for ourselves. Members of Each Other exposes the dangers of power, isolation, helplessness, and gives tried and trusted tools to help build for the future. This collection describes initiatives in three areas, in particular: linking people one-to-one (citizen advocacy) gathering people around helping a person define and pursue a desirable future (circle of support) assisting people to pursue their interests as members of community associations (connecting people to community associations).
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