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Welcome to the Community Ventures in Living, Ltd.
Our mission is to assist and support persons who are developmentally disabled and their families to establish and/or maintain homes that are truly their own.
This website is intended to make finding information about CVL, our services, our resources and our plans more convenient. We have created a calendar of events to keep you informed of the schedule of the organization, an outline of the services we offer as well as ways that you might be able to help with our mission. Each major division of our programs are represented through the menus above and access to the more detailed information through the links on the right of the page. Please come in and look around. We hope you enjoy your stay.
1-day workshop on SOCIAL ROLE VALORIZATION
This one-day event will describe Social Role Valorization (SRV) and some of its main elements. As an empirical theory, SRV is an important and effective framework for all sorts of service provisions that contains many positive assumptions, principles, and practices. In particular, this workshop is designed to give participants an appreciation of the importance of valued social roles for people who are (at risk of being) devalued in and by society, which is the primary goal of Social Role Valorization, as its name indicates.
The basic content of this one-day session provides a brief orientation to:
some of the major negative consequences of the societal devaluation affecting large numbers of people, including the facts that they become rejected, cast into extremely negative "deviancy" roles, and imaged very negatively.
the meaning and importance of social roles in the lives of such people.
The workshop format employs a variety of training media, including lecture presentations, using overheads and slides, as well as small group discussions, and the viewing of a video or film (time permitting). It will be presented by Joe Osburn, director of The Safeguards Initiative, and a long-time associate of Dr. Wolf Wolfensberger, the author of SRV; and also by Mike Morton, director of Community Ventures in Living.
REGISTRATION
In order to register, please complete the form below. If there are fees due for the conference you will be contacted for payment information.
Registration fee is $100 per person; includes lunch, handout materials, and the book A brief introduction to Social Role Valorization: A high-irder concept for addressing the plight of societally devalued people, and for structuring human services. (3rd ed.) Wolfensberger, W., 1998.
Satisfaction Survey
Community Ventures in Living is committed to being a responsive, client and family oriented agency that is driven by our core mission.
This requires developing performance measures that look at client and family satisfaction with CVL’s services and the manner in which our mission is implemented. One element of our performance measure is a Customer Satisfaction index. This index is developed, in part, from surveys collected from clients and their families who have used CVL services in the past 12 months.
