Human service professionals with special expertise, techniques, and technology push out the problem-solving knowledge and action of friend, neighbor, citizen, and association. – JOHN MCKNIGHT
[A culture of life] starts with our own gentleness, our acceptance of nonviolence, our constant questioning of our own beliefs and actions, our ability to teach […]
Why have I told you these appalling vignettes of past institutional life? Because the system that created these dehumanizing arrangements is still with us today. – […]
To live with our retarded children, our handicapped friends, our aging parents does place burdens on us…[T]hese are burdens which cannot be avoided or delegated: to […]
The bottom fell out of human service morality in any number of ways when medicine unequivocally abandoned its moral, philosophical, and theological background. – WOLF WOLFENSBERGER
For those whose ’emptiness’ cannot be filled by human services, the most obvious ‘need’ is the opportunity to express and share their gifts, skills, capacities, and […]
When in doubt about what to do, a gentle caregiver looks at any question or situation from this perspective – ‘What will help the person feel safe and loved at this very moment?’ – […]
