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A special symposium in
collaboration with the Center for Self-Determination. The Re-Affirmation of Community Now more than a decade later we ask ourselves “What’s the state of our communities and have the changes helped them become welcoming and responsive to people with disabilities?” Self-determination has focused on the individual and the human service system during this time. We have learned that individual control of life’s direction is necessary for true freedom and that systems of support must continue to make monumental change to embrace this shift of control. During this active symposium, Jody Kretzmann from the Asset-Based Community Development (ABCD) Institute, Pat Carver, Dennis Harkins, Tom Nerney, Doreen Rosimos and many others from the Center for Self-Determination will look at the strengths of the individual and family, the community, and the paid systems. Together we will reflect how to shrink the importance of the paid systems and increase the importance of the individual and his or her community. The original monograph affirmed that having a meaningful life in the community is the ultimate outcome of self-determination. Is now the time to offer a re-affirmation? Join us once again to challenge our very concept of the meaning of community and to issue a Re-Affirmation of Community. |
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