Good Questions to Ask in Our Journey Toward Better Outcomes

Thursday, September 30, 2021 — 1:00-2:00 PM Eastern / 12:00 noon-1:00 PM Central / 11:00 AM-12:00 noon Mountain / 10:00–11:00 AM Pacific

Social Role Valorization theory offers us many tools to use in our work toward helping people with disabilities enjoy the good things in life that most citizens take for granted. This session will focus on several of these tools. Each tool will be described along with real life stories of how, when implemented, better outcomes are likely to result.

Presenter

Hope Leet Dittmeier has devoted the last 40 years in a variety of roles, all investigating the question, “What would it take for people to enjoy ordinary lives in lieu of life in segregation?” As a family member, Hope has walked alongside her sister-in-law who experiences intellectual disability, supporting her to have a career, own a home, become an integral part of her church community, fulfil the role of doting Aunt, and enjoy a rich personal social network. In professional roles, she has focused on designing robust supports unique to each individual person. Hope’s life and work have been informed on a consistent basis by Social Role Valorization theory.

Hope is currently Executive Director at Mattingly Edge where she has been instrumental in transforming a large, legacy day program that utilized a medical model into a service that provides only individualized supports, designed to help people enjoy the same good things in life that most people take for granted.

This is the fifth episode in a six-part webinar series on community living. For the complete series, click here.