Thanks to Guy Caruso, Western Coordinator at the Institute on Disabilities at Temple University and long-term member of the North American SRV Training, Development and Safeguarding Council, for sending me the link to this 90 minute video of Wolf Wolfensberger teaching on the dilemma of providing human service for pay. As always, his teaching is challenging, timely and relevant for those concerned with the lives of vulnerable people.
Just one of the points Wolfensberger spells out is the wide-scale, often multi-generational, impoverishment of societally devalued people. This is a reality which human service workers are so often highly unconscious of. Regarding impoverishment, see for example:
http://www.supportsolutions.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?t=13859
http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTPOVERTY/Resources/WDR/Background/elwan.pdf
http://www.mnddc.org/parallels2/pdf/undated/Poverty_Flyer.pdf
re: video of WW teaching on human service for pay – would be nice if this video was either downloadable and or available to purchase. I would like to watch this film …have fast internet at work but no time to watch it there…slow internet at home where I have more time to watch.