The Role of Social Care in Services for People with Disability Brian McClean Brothers Of Charity Roscommon
Dec 21, 2014
The Role of Social Care inServices for People with
Disability
Brian McClean
Brothers Of Charity Roscommon
Social Role Valorisation
• Raise consciousness
• Challenge perceptions
• Provide valued social roles
• Promote social inclusionWolf Wolfensburger 1934 - 2011
A Sense Of Home
• Shelter
• Hearth
• Heart
• Privacy
• Identity
• Abode
• Paradise
ShelterTranslating quality of life into service action: use of personal outcome measures in the Republic of IrelandBob McCormack and Margaret Farrell
300 Irish People With Intellectual Disabilities
30% not assured of freedom from abuse and neglect34% no expectation of basic privacy43% no best possible health outcome64% did not experience continuity and security
The Ryan ReportReligion and children in care or congregate living?
Hearth
Heart
Toolbox for Change: Reclaiming joy, purpose and commitment in the helping profession
Privacy
Identity
Abode
• Partial participation
• Every moment has potential
• Graded Assistance
• Little and often
• Maximising Choice and Control
Paradise
• Positive Emotion
• Flow
• Meaning
To be seen and met as a fellow human being with the capacity to discover one’s personal vision is to be encouraged determine for oneself, the things that happen in one’s own life. If, as staff, our actions inspire others to dream more, to learn more, to do more and to become more, we are working as effective skilled helpers.
Francis’ Story
Not Yet A Vision,Maybe A Glow