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Advocacy in community care
- Author:
- DOCKERY Billy
- Journal article citation:
- Tayside Advocate, 11, Autumn 1994, pp.10-11.
Outlines the role of advocacy in the context of community care.
Who counts?
- Author:
- SIMONS Ken
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 26.3.92, 1992, pp.iv-v.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Considers how care management will affect Individual Programme Planning and self-advocacy for people with learning difficulties.
A new movement in an old bureaucracy: the development of self-advocacy in the Czech Republic
- Author:
- SISKA Jan
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 34(3), September 2006, pp.139-145.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
The author describes how self-advocacy has grown in the Czech Republic, and provides an overview of its relatively short history within the broader context of political and administrative change toward community-based services, and the slow process of de-institutionalisation. The development of the country's first self-advocacy group is also described. The author highlights the importance of the systematic support for self-advocacy groups in the Czech Republic.
Japanese culture and the philosophy of self-advocacy: the importance of interdependence in community living
- Author:
- TSUDA Eiji
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 34(3), September 2006, pp.151-156.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
This article explores the relationship between the philosophy underpinning self-advocacy and Japanese culture. It considers the variety of self-advocacy groups that have grown in Japan, and the context in which they have emerged. Elements of Japanese culture present a specific set of challenges for the values and ideas driving the global self-advocacy movement. The article examines the ways in which these ideas may need to be negotiated in order to support greater community living for people with learning difficulties.
Oi! It's my first assessment: everything you ever wanted to know about community care, your assessment and your care manager, but nobody bothered to tell you
- Author:
- People First
- Publisher:
- People First
- Publication year:
- 1994
- Pagination:
- 17p.,illus.
- Place of publication:
- London
Booklet aimed at people with learning difficulties, explaining in words and pictures what community care is and how assessments work.
"Our homes, not nursing homes" project: lives of people with disabilities in nursing homes
- Authors:
- HAYASHI Reiko, ROUSCULP Tiffany
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Social Work in Disability and Rehabilitation, 3(2), 2004, pp.57-70.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
The voices of non-elderly adults with disabilities who currently-or used to-reside in nursing homes are rarely heard. A grassroots disability advocacy organization conducts participatory action research in the form of a writing workshop in collaboration with a local community-college. Participants with disabilities describe their lives and their experiences in nursing homes with the help of volunteer scribes. The information provided in their accounts will help strengthen community-organizing efforts of the disability advocacy organization. And participants have been empowered by the realization that their life stories are helping others to leave nursing homes and join community settings. (Copies of this article are available from: Haworth Document Delivery Centre, Haworth Press Inc., 10 Alice Street, Binghamton, NY 13904-1580).
'I always do what they tell me to do': choice-making opportunities in the lives of two older persons with severe learning difficulties living in a community setting
- Authors:
- TREECE Ann, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 14(6), November 1999, pp.791-804.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Presents a case study conducted to document the perceptions of two older adults with severe learning difficulties regarding their quality of life and their experience with choice-making in areas of life they identified as significant to them. Although the participants expressed overall satisfaction with their lives, they were not content with their choice-making opportunities. The findings are discussed in terms of theories proposed in current literature on the subject.
Consultation: plan of action or management exercise?
- Authors:
- TOWNSON Louise, CHAPMAN Ross
- Journal article citation:
- Community Living, 12(4), April 1999, pp.16-17.
- Publisher:
- Hexagon Publishing
Consultation is one of the 'four Cs' of the government's Best Value initiative. The authors argue that consultation in its own right is not enough, and that people should be involved on committees right through to the top if a real change is to take place.
Inclusion and autonomy for people with multiple and complex learning difficulties
- Authors:
- MERRILL Kirsten, BOYCE Peter
- Journal article citation:
- Applied Community Studies, 3(1), 1996, pp.77-91.
- Publisher:
- Whiting and Birch
For people such as those with severe learning difficulties who have had little or no involvement in decision making over their futures, learning to make decisions inevitably requires the time and resources afforded them by more able others. The Advocacy Movement has been hugely influential, though there is still a need for change in societal attitudes. This paper attempts to address issues relating to successful integration such as the availability of resources, ethical implications and the tension that can arise between the service users and professionals.
Adults with learning difficulties: education for choice and empowerment; a handbook of good practice
- Author:
- SUTCLIFFE Jeannie
- Publisher:
- National Institute of Adult Continuing Education/Open University
- Publication year:
- 1991
- Pagination:
- 199p.,illus.,tables,list of orgs
- Place of publication:
- Leicester
A handbook of good practice for people working in a teaching or enabling role. Contains chapters on self advocacy and citizen advocacy; learning choices; ways and means of learning; learning for a purpose; transition to community living; education of the wider community in disability issues; and issues for managers and planners.