Easy Street is the name of a simulated environment with a purported goal of rehabilitation, and is used in a number of programs, such as hospitals, rehabilitation centers and other medical settings. Easy Street environments… Read More »Easy Street
The Sunday NY Times (4 May 2014) included an article entitled ‘Heroin’s new hometown: On Staten Island, rising tide of heroin takes hold.’ It is a sad and difficult article about the awful effects of addiction… Read More »Imagery and drug addiction services
This 2014 op ed in the NY Times relates to the Social Role Valorization (SRV) theme of competency enhancement, in this case, as related to the role of student. It examines ways that group size… Read More »Group size matters
One of the clarifications offered in introductory Social Role Valorization workshops and texts is the distinction between the role of server (whether paid or voluntary) and the valued social role of friend. Servers may indeed… Read More »Role of server or friend?
The 5 April 2020 edition of the NY Times included an obituary notice for Harriet Glickman. From the article: “Ms. Glickman was a former schoolteacher in California when the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.… Read More »Franklin Armstrong in the Peanuts cartoon
A 3 July 2019 article in the NY Times Magazine entitled ‘Digital Jail: How Electronic Monitoring Drives Defendants Into Debt’ by Ava Kaufman compellingly illustrates the concepts of heightened vulnerability, and of non-programmatic factors, as… Read More »NY Times Magazine article ‘E-jail’ by Ava Kofman