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Intentional Teaming – eBook

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Intentional Teaming:  This book is important because we are not just being told how, we are being shown that it can be done. Intentional Teaming represents a much needed paradigm shift in the ways we work with and care for each other.  This book puts the person at the helm and offers concrete ideas for genuine support, pride, dignity and personalized participation of a labeled person and their support staff. You are going to love this book – and give it to everyone with whom you work.

The Opportunity for Truth & Reconciliation

Creating the Futures We Want Key links in this article: • Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) Report • CBC NEWS – Truth and Reconciliation offers 94 ‘calls to action’ • [Product] ABCD in Action • [Resource] Circles of Friends/Support The Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) Report with 94 Recommendations is 5 years old this week.   It […]

Thinking About Colonialism

Colonialism??? Isn’t that ancient history? My answer is – not quite. If we make a space to look under the covers, we will begin to notice that many of these injustices have deep roots in our history – and my simplistic summary is ‘colonialism’ and ‘imperialism’. For Canadians, we need look no further than ‘our […]

Creating the Future We Want… We Need Circles of Support

Times of crisis – of global disruption – are also times for new ideas to blossom and take root.  While acknowledging the devastation of the pandemic, it also lays bare some of the catastrophic and systemic disregard for citizens with disabilities and others who have been marginalized in our society.  Within this painful visibility, there […]

John Daniel O’Leary – Writing & Videos

Two Words you never want to hear – download Creating a Love of Reading – the book Frontier College at the U of T St. George Campus creating a love of reading The City is the Classroom John O’Leary on Popular, Informal Education – May 19, 2011 – video – 25 minutes – at York University […]

John Daniel O’Leary

Oct. 10, 1951 – April 14, 2020 John Daniel O’Leary – Obituary – Globe & Mail – click here John Daniel O’Leary, a longtime resident of the Yonge and St Clair neighbourhood sadly passed away in a tragic accident this week. Living in the neighbourhood for over 40 years, he referred to himself to his […]

Common Sense Tools: MAPS and CIRCLES for Inclusive Education

Dunner ar Dybwad; Herb Lovett; Rosemary Dybwad; Jack Pearpoint; Marsha Forest – a Circle of Friends This article went viral in the early 90’s because families were starving for new options for their children, teachers could feel possibility but were trapped… So simple down to earth stories of using the concepts and models of Circles […]

Toronto Summer Institute Postponed to July 2021

Our obligation to the common good keeps us home. Uncertainty about how long the need for physical separation will last, what form mitigating the effects of Coronavirus will take three months from now, and what will be needed to rebuild when the immediate threat passes, leads us to postpone TSI as a face-to-face event.  “Let’s […]

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Find Meaning in the Work – eBook & CD download

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Find Meaning in the Work
Ten Exercises to Encourage Reflection on Direct Support

We believe that …
… direct support workers make an essential contribution to the lives of people with developmental disabilities and their families when they are committed, competent, and caring. These exercises look at what makes for good work.
… opportunities to reflect on what is meaningful in direct service work are one important source of the learning that underpins good work and the effective leadership of service organizations.

These exercises structure time for reflection.
… a sense of meaning cannot be poured into people. People construct meaning for themselves in focused conversation about important questions. These exercises focus reflection.
… people who do direct support work can benefit from reflection on its meaning; so can people who manage or coordinate services; so can people with disabilities and their families who are interested in hiring and directing their own staff. This set of ten exercises assists anyone who wants the chance to think more deeply about supporting people with developmental disabilities to live well connected lives of their own choosing.

I’ve always really liked what I do but having a chance to think about my work has renewed my commitment to it.                –Residential direct support worker

These exercises made us reflect on great questions and re-energized our staff.
–Agency director

I’ve been doing job coaching for several years and keep saying to myself, ‘someday I better start a career’. These exercises made me realize I had a career and I could help build the status of my profession.”           –Job Coach

The Exercises

Each exercise defines a structure for reflection on one of these questions:

• Why should society support the work we do?

• Who among us best realizes the callling of direct support and why?

• Am I becoming a worthy ancestor for those who will enter the work in the future?

• What makes it easier for us to do what it takes to create good outcomes?

• How much can we influence working conditions?

• Why do many people place so little value on direct support work and how do we resist?

• What has my work life-line been and what has lifted me when I have lost the meaning?

• What dilemma’s and difficulties go with the job and how can we cope with them effectively?

• What are the important themes in direct support work and how would we express them in a quilt?

• What are the positive contributions that people with disabilities make to direct support workers?

Each of these structured exercises can be done in one to two hours. A single exercise can be done in a staff or team meeting. Exercises can be sequenced for staff development days or for agency retreats.

Beth Gallagher & Kirk Hinkleman

Beth Gallagher is the founder, owner and CEO of Life Works. Life Works was founded in 2004. Her work with people with developmental disabilities began just weeks after graduating from California State University, Chico in 1986 with degrees in Child Development and Psychology. Beth has spent the past 3 decades creating unique and specific support strategies […]

Erwin Wieringa

Erwin Wieringa — a strong catalyst for inclusion in the Netherlands and throughout Europe since 1991. A talented colleague, friend, author, playwright and cyclist. Sir Erwin Wieringa Knighted November 13, 2009: Royal Order of Orange-Nassau for his work on inclusive education in The Netherlands. Royal Order of Orange-Nassau: website / Wikipedia Congratulatory Letter on Knighthood (from Lynda […]

Quotes & Endings Overheads

In the late 80’s and 90’s, Jack & Marsha used a wide range of ‘overheads’ in workshops and presentations. Some might be useful… who knows. Who Loves This Person? download We are Responsible download Take Care of Yourself… download Say Yes! download Random Acts of Kindness download Normal is a Cycle on a Washing Machine […]

Marsha Forest Centre Board

The Marsha Forest Centre is a registered Canadian Charitable corporation with an international board. Cathy Hollands is the Chair of the MFC Board of Directors. She is the Administrative Director of Inclusion Press, and has been part of the Marsha Forest Centre since 1995 Gary Bunch, Board Chair emeritus – was the original Board Chair […]

TSI 2017 – The Toronto Summer Institute

For more than 30 years the Summer Institute has gathered people, from around the world. People who care about the creation of inclusive communities, come together in dialogue, learning, story telling, and celebration of the potential of everyone to contribute gifts that make a difference. 10 minutes. Created by Neighbours International and Inclusion Press Additional […]

The PATH & MAPS Handbook -Korean eBook

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About this Handbook

25 years ago Marsha and Jack Pearpoint and John O’Brien designed MAPS and PATH as supports to people who need to discover strategies that serve their vision of inclusion in school and community life.  Decades have passed, so this handbook reflects what we have learned since the original Path Workbook in 1995.  There is also a DVD that updates much of our learning.

POWER OF THREE Bundle

Justin Page C.M.

Justin Page C.M. (Order of Canada) – is an inveterate inventor/creator. After having encounters with crime and prison, he became a leading ‘job finder’ for the HEL P program (ex-offenders finding jobs for ex-offenders – a project of Frontier College.) On that journey – his lack of literacy skills was flipped into a remarkable tutoring […]

Jim Hansen: School & Our Self Image + Questions

SCHOOL Someone asked a little boy, “What is Home?” He replied, “Home is a place that when you go there, they have to take you in.” School should be more like home. School is an important place of learning. It is, however, not the only or the most important place of learning. A school, at […]

John O’Brien Articles: Systems Change and Leadership

John O’Brien & Connie Lyle O’Brien have been life long contributors and leaders to our understanding of yow systems work – and more important – how they can be changed. Back to the John O’Brien Change Makers page

Bryce Thomas – a Pioneer

Another young friend and a great teacher — who knew how to live every day to the full. Daryl and Janet Thomas Those of us who have had the privilege of knowing and learning with and from Bryce these last years realize that this young man was extraordinarily gifted — in many ways. His smile […]

Gerv Leyden

Gerv Leyden was a brilliant educational psychologist (and soccer player) who against all odds became a university professor. His commitment to inclusion and to ‘trouble youth’ was as powerful as his relentless lobbying to change education policies in England to support inclusion. Videos and Writing of Gerv Leyden Gerv Leyden – a selection of published […]

John McKnight

John McKnight passed on November 1, 2024. He is a great loss for his leadership, his wisdom and his friendship. He was a collaborator in our Summer Institutes for 34 years. His friendship endures. For 34 years, John’s wit, wisdom, guidance and friendship was at the core of our Summer Institutes where his mesmerizing stories […]

CHANGE MAKERS

We have had the privilege of working with many remarkable colleagues who share life long passions to build a world that welcomes the talents and capacities of every person into participation in community life. We have created collections (libraries) of some of the key articles, videos and resources created individually and collaboratively. Most of these […]

Inclusion Theater

Welcome to the Inclusion Theater, a space where we share some of our favorite videos of thinkers, artists, players, and citizens from over the years. There are ‘historical’ videos (from the early annals of inclusion) – almost 200 videos organized into categories for your easy viewing. You can also watch our Live Streams here!  First, […]

Inclusion 101

The Inclusion Press Logo Our logo is a combination of three ‘korus’. A koru is a ‘fiddle head’ – an  ‘unfolding fern’ that symbolizes new life, hope, eternity. It is a fractal, with endless and beautiful repetition of a pattern. Koru is a Maori word chosen because of our deep connections with the Tuhoe tribe […]

George Ducharme

George Ducharme Ducharme Receives Distinguished Alumnae/i Award At Saint Joseph College West Hartford, Conn. – George G. Ducharme, Ph.D., has been selected to receive the Sister Fay O’Brien Award from Saint Joseph College, where he earned a master’s degree in Special Education in 1969. The award is given to outstanding graduates of the School of […]

Marsha Forest Obituary – June 2, 2000

Educator fought for inclusion of mentally handicapped DONN DOWNEYThe Globe and MailFriday, June 9, 2000 Toronto — It might have been a scene from Alabama in 1963 — two families taking their children to school, daring school officials to turn them away. But it was 1989 and the schools were in Ontario. The children were […]

Circles of Friends/Support

Circles of Friends or Circles of Support have been in every society since the dawn of time. We are wired for belonging, connection and being in relationship with one another. ‘Circles’ is about how we take care of each other in families and communities. It is the ‘structure’ of our relationships. In Western societies, as […]

U-CAN VR Dictionary – eBook

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U-CAN Dictionary is a unique and remarkable response to the simmering literacy crisis that undermines the inherent gifts and capacities of millions of citizens. It is a ‘handbook’ for non-readers and new readers that begins at the beginning with one-letter words, then two-letter words, and then grows simply and elegantly into a carefully selected introductory English vocabulary. It is a significant contribution to literacy learning and learners everywhere.

Also available in print

We call it the “People’s Book” because it was created by Justin Page who learned to read at 31, and a team of volunteer creators who are committed to assisting new readers. It is in fact by the people, for the people.

We call it “The Self Teaching Dictionary” because you can use it on your own; with your children; with a friend. There are learning games. And most important – you begin at the beginning and thus experience constant successes in your learning as you move ahead. It’s a great place to start…

PUBLICITY

Reading: U CAN do it: New dictionary makes literacy easy, fun
from Niagara This Week – Aug. 7, 2013 – by Amanda Moore
http://www.niagarathisweek.com/community-story/3925713-reading-u-can-do-it/

Niagara This Week editorial – Aug. 7, 2013
http://www.niagarathisweek.com/opinion-story/3925739-words-can-be-a-powerful-thing/

Shoreline Beacon News – July 22, 2013 – Sarah Sloan
http://www.shorelinebeacon.com/2013/07/22/new-dictionary-to-help-people-read

CBC News – Hamilton – Cory Ruf, July 28, 2013
http://www.cbc.ca/hamilton/news/story/2013/07/25/hamilton-couple-unveils-next-chapter-in-fight-for-literacy.html

U-CAN Colour Dictionary – eBook

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U-CAN Colour Dictionary is a unique and remarkable response to the simmering literacy crisis that undermines the inherent gifts and capacities of millions of citizens. In addition to being a ‘handbook’ for non-readers and new readers, it explores voice recognition and ‘colour coding’ to uncover the power of words and our own writing.  It is a significant contribution to literacy learning and learners everywhere.

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Creating Blue Space – eBook

$25.00

Hanns Meissner has emerged from years of ‘formation’ at The Arc of Rensselaer County in Eastern New York State with lessons learned from a journey of individualizing supports. His agency’s story is one of relentless commitment of creating enough blue space for innovative ways to support and partner with individuals with developmental disabilities to form and flourish in spite of system constraints. Read, reflect, and learn about “bushwhacking” through the bureaucratic wilderness so you too can create blue space for innovation and citizenship for all to blossom.

A NEW article by Hanns:  Disrupting the Exclusive Reliance on Expert Systems to Solve the Problem of Social Exclusion.  2021

U-CAN Colour Dictionary

$25.00

U-CAN Colour Dictionary is a unique and remarkable response to the simmering literacy crisis that undermines the inherent gifts and capacities of millions of citizens. In addition to being a ‘handbook’ for non-readers and new readers, it explores voice recognition and ‘colour coding’ to uncover the power of words and our own writing.  It is a significant contribution to literacy learning and learners everywhere.

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Supporting Diversity

SUPPORTING DIVERSITY One of the most valuable gifts is the rich diversity in each of our communities. However, diversity does not just materialize. We need to reach out and welcome diversity consciously. When we do, we are all richer. When we don’t, our live experiences are narrower and unnecessarily constrained. These books and videos are […]

OECD on Inclusion

OECD on INCLUSION CENTRE FOR EDUCATIONAL RESEARCHAND INNOVATION GOVERNING BOARD SUSTAINING INCLUSIVE EDUCATION: INCLUDING STUDENTS WITH SPECIAL EDUCATIONAL NEEDS IN MAINSTREAM SCHOOLS:  Lessons from the Case Studies 75501 We have provided selected passages of the text of this remarkable 1999  report for your reading. Full text is available from OECD. OECD Organisation de Cooperation et de Developpement Economiques […]

Caroline Fei-Yeng Kwok

With years of both positive and negative care experiences in the mental health system, author Caroline Fei-Yeng Kwok writes honestly and provocatively about what recovery-oriented care truly looks like. Often touted as a living example of recovery, Caroline Fei-Yeng Kwok has come a long way in the more than three decades since she was diagnosed […]

Carol Blessing

Carol Blessing, MSW is a Senior Extension Associate with the K. Lisa Yang and Hock E. Tan Institute on Employment and Disability. Since joining the faculty in 2000, Carol has been responsible for leading system’s impact projects aimed at supporting the full inclusion of people with disabilities in typical community life. Throughout her career she […]

Marsha Forest: Books, Articles & Videos

Marsha Forest was a relentless life long advocate for Inclusion. Originally from NYC, she was trained as a teacher of the deaf – including sitting on their hands to prevent using sign language. True to form, Marsha rejected that approach and spent her life teaching and supporting families to explore any and all forms of […]

Patrick Worth Says…

It is with deep regret that we inform you that Pat Worth, one of the founding fathers of People First, and a past President of People First in Ontario, passed on unexpectedly on Nov. 11.2004. He was an author and speaker of renown having moved audiences in many countries around the globe. Pat was the […]

POWER of THREE Bundle

$70.00

A group of three recommended resource books:

ABCD in Action:  When People Care Enough to Act

PATH & MAPS Handbook:  Person-Centered Ways to Build Community

Make a Difference:  A guidebook for Person-Centered Direct Support

John McKnight

John McKnight was emeritus professor of education and social policy and co-director of the Asset-Based Community Development Institute (ABCD) at DePaul University. He is the coauthor of Building Communities from the Inside Out and the author of The Careless Society. He was a community organizer and served on the boards of several national organizations that […]

Janice Fialka

Janice Fialka is a brilliant writer. Micah Fialka-Feldman is her son. He is a teaching assistant at Syracuse University and one of the most charming people you will ever encounter. This remarkable story, draws on the reflections from family and friends – and walks us through the journey to this remarkable current reality. But the […]

Mike Green

Mike Green offers ABCD training and consultation to organizations to engage their local communities as partners for collective action. He teaches and consults throughout North America and in New Zealand and Australia. Mike’s focus is the practical implementation of ABCD principles. He was the training director of the ABCD Institute’s Neighborhood Circle for four years. […]

Judith Snow

JUDITH SNOW October 29, 1949 – May 31, 2015 The colours of Judith Snow were vibrant, flagrant, unabashedly in the forefront of the forefront: a social inventor, a trailblazer, a relentless advocate for inclusion. She championed communities that welcome diversity, including all persons with disabilities, especially people who do not speak in voice, as full […]

Beth Mount

Beth Mount has worked for four decades toward the ideal that every person with a disability can be a valued member of community life. She has practiced the art of person-centered planning with thousands of people with disabilities and their families from every walk of life and from every corner of the World. Her groundbreaking […]

Creating What I Know About Community

by Judith A. Snow DOWNLOAD this article A Summary: Judith Snow is still a gifted and visionary thinker – and so this writing about Dreaming, Giftedness is ultimately about relearning now to listen – so we can Dream the new Communities we so desperately want and need. Judith always began with a story – and […]

The Ethics of Inclusion: Three Common Delusions

by John O’Brien, Marsha Forest, Jack Pearpoint, Shafik Asante & Judith Snow The Ethics of Inclusion: Three Common Delusions by John O’Brien, Marsha Forest, Jack Pearpoint, Shafik Asante & Judith Snow We want to begin a dialogue on the expectations about personal behavior that go along with a commitment to Inclusion. Unattainable expectations confuse good […]

Inclusion: It’s About Change! Forest & Pearpoint

Inclusion: It’s About Change! by Jack Pearpoint & Marsha Forest Inclusion means change!! We believe both inclusion and change are inevitable. Whether we choose to grow with and from these changes is a choice. It has been instructive to be a participant in hundreds of emotional meetings about “inclusion”, when it is crystal clear after […]

Vive la Difference

The streets are exploding. People are getting hurt. There is poverty, racism, violence. Single parents, kids, gangs, drugs, booze — families — all are part of the explosion of life on the street — life in urban war zones.

Modern medicine — like most other institutions — is ill equipped to deal with this new reality. But it is here. There is no choice. Next week it will be more intense. Crack babies and multiple addictions will haunt all our corridors.

THE ART OF GROWING INVISIBLE ANTENNAE

by Nicola Schaefer(This article is a “teaser” for Yes, She Knows She’s There) In a plane heading for Toronto, where I was to be part of a conference to do with the inclusion of people with disabilities in their own homes within typical neighbourhoods, I found myself talking, as one does on planes, with a fellow […]

Personal Assistance: What It Is and What It Is Not – Judith Snow

DOWNLOAD – Personal Assistance: What it is and What it is Not by Judith Snow, MA Abstract: In her typical forthright way, Judith peels back the layers of misunderstanding about the nature of Personal Assistance – and reminds us of the very simple truth – is a form of support for people who are labeled […]

Partnership: What Does It Really Mean? Forest & Pearpoint

by Jack Pearpoint & Marsha Forest (circa 1994) Partnership as a concept is a much discussed term these days. Parents & educators talk of “partners” in learning. Consumers of services and professionals talk about “partnering” in service delivery. States and provinces talk of “partnership” in political federations. However, many parents, consumers, citizens feel that these […]

Kick Em Out or Keep Em In: Exclusion or Inclusion – Forest & Pearpoint

Download – Kick Em Out Or Keep Em In – here by Jack Pearpoint & Marsha Forest Synopsis: Students who display severe behaviour difficulties, like all children, can and should be included in the mainstream of our schools and communities. The key to making it possible is relationships. It should be no great mystery that […]

Robert (Bob) Perske

Robert (Bob) Perske – life long advocate and author/story teller for inclusion and human rights. The enemy’s “scorched earth policy” had just been shut down.  That policy ordered all enemy soldiers to hide in buildings and to shoot every person they could see before being shot to death themselves. On October 16, 1944, Robert Perske […]

Judith Snow

Judith SnowOct. 29, 1949 – May 31, 2015 Our dear friend and faculty member Judith Snow passed away on the evening of May 31, 2015. Below is a letter from John McKnight to our faculty about Judith. Dear Circle of Friends; Jack Pearpoint of Inclusion Press made a moving slide show of Judith’s life. It […]

Who is Marsha Forest?

Who is Marsha Forest? MARSHA SNYDERMAN FOREST 1942 – 2000Marsha Forest was a remarkable leader, advocate and champion of inclusion for all. She passed on, June 2, 2000 after a 12 year battle with cancer. She continued to work and teach until weeks before her untimely death. Because of her impact internationally, the Board of […]

Everyone Has a Gift:

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This is now a download – rather than a DVD. The opening Keynote at the Toronto Summer Institute in July, 1996 featured John McKnight. John is a brilliant speaker – but on that night – on the 23rd floor of the Primrose Hotel – he opened the sky to the heavens. McKnight explains as only McKnight can how to build communities of capacity. (55 min.)Everyone who sees this video loves it. It is truly John McKnight at his finest – a gem. John is a storyteller, a political philosopher, a prophet and an activist. This video is a moving talk about building communities where everyone can give their gifts as citizens. Community building for John McKnight is not a sentimental journey, but a job to be done by citizens, neighbors, families and friends. John McKnight is the Director of the Community Studies Program at the Center for Urban Affairs and Policy Research at Northwestern University where he is a professor. A great compliment to the video is John’s newest book The Careless Society.

Audience
Everyone involved in moving from a deficiency model, to a capacity building model – whether in communities, schools, workplaces, human service organizations, the medical profession, probation and parole, adult education or in your family. Everyone!

John McKnight

Produced by Jack Pearpoint and Marsha Forest with Jeff Dobbin of Parashoot Productions

ABCD IN ACTION DVD: Asset Based Community Development – now available on line!!

$75.00

ABCD IN ACTION DVD: Asset Based Community Development :   ABCD in Action profiles five diverse groups who have utilized the principles of ABCD to create partnerships with those they serve and in effect, rejuvenate and revitalize their organizations.
Included are profiles from:

• Neighborhood Associations in Savannah, Georgia

• Beyond Welfare, an organization supporting people in poverty in Ames, Iowa

• The Archdiocese of Upper Michigan in Marquette, Michigan

• Lakes Region Community Services Council, supporting people with disabilities in New Hampshire

• Neighborhood Housing Services, an organization providing affordable housing opportunities in Asheville, North Carolina.

Plus extensive interviews and commentaries by Mike Green, Henry Moore and John McKnight
Developed in response to the question “I love ABCD (Asset Based Community Development); “What do I do Monday Morning?”–and based on Mike Green & Henry Moore’s highly regarded work as ABCD organizers, consultants and trainers–-these materials support a practical approach to creating community collaborations that work. Enriching each other, the book and the DVD provide clear exposition of ABCD organizing principles and best practices, examples of ABCD organizing in action, learning exercises, worksheets, and reflections from experienced practitioners of ABCD organizing.

ABCD in Action profiles five diverse groups who have utilized the principles of ABCD to create partnerships with those they serve and in effect, rejuvenate and revitalize their organizations.
Included are profiles from:
• Neighborhood associations in Savannah, Georgia
• Beyond Welfare, an organization supporting people in poverty in Ames, Iowa
• The Archdiocese of Upper Michigan in Marquette, Michigan
• Lakes Region Community Services Council, supporting people with disabilities in New Hampshire
• Neighborhood Housing Services, an organization providing affordable housing opportunities in Asheville, North Carolina.
Plus extensive interviews and commentaries by Mike Green, Henry Moore and John McKnight
Developed in response to the question “I love ABCD (Asset Based Community Development); “What do I do Monday Morning?”–and based on Mike Green & Henry Moore’s highly regarded work as ABCD organizers, consultants and trainers–-these materials support a practical approach to creating community collaborations that work. Enriching each other, the book and the DVD provide clear exposition of ABCD organizing principles and best practices, examples of ABCD organizing in action, learning exercises, worksheets, and reflections from experienced practitioners of ABCD organizing.
Main topics include: ABCD Principles & Practice • Discovering What People Care About • Mobilizing A Community’s Assets • People & Programs: We Need Both • Leading By Stepping Back: The Role Of Governments & Agencies • Inclusion: There Is No One We Do Not Need • John McKnight’s Reflections On ABCD organizing. Lessons from Ashville NC; Marquette, MI; Laconia, NH; Savannah, GA; Ames, IO.

INCLUSION PRESS: Inclusion, Community, Diversity

Inclusion Press:  Inclusion, Community, Diversity Founding Publishers: Jack Pearpoint & Marsha Forest Inclusion Press creates person centered resource materials for training events, public schools, high schools, community colleges, universities, human service agencies, health organizations, government agencies, families, Indigenous organizations – nationally and internationally. Current Publishers: Jack Pearpoint, Lynda Kahn and Cathy Hollands Welcome to our newly […]

Inclusion News

Our History Inclusion News was an occasional newspaper/journal we published because it seemed like a good idea – and people seemed to love it.   Inclusion News began as a publication of the Centre for Integrated Education and Community (the original name of the Marsha Forest Centre).  We printed and mailed up to 70,000 copies of […]

PUBLISHERS, CATALOGUES & DISTRIBUTORS

  Amazon Books – just about the biggest bookstore anywhere… ASCD – Association of Supervision and Curriculum Development. Excellent learning research and resources. Syracuse Cultural Workers – fabulous resources Brookes Publishing – Great resource, and excellent book catalogue California TASH – a great network to join – and explore CEC – Council for Exceptional Children – […]

Inclusion Links

Literacy and School Resources Indigenous web links Publishers, Catalogues and Distributors Designing Solutions

Resources for Inclusion

We are committed to building a world where everyone is fully included as a contributing citizen – in their community. We have assembled a wide range of resources that we hope will assist you on your journey to inclusion in your community. Person-Centered Planning: PATH, MAPS & CIRCLES PATH; MAPS & Circles – an extensive […]

Make A Difference

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Make A Difference

Developed in collaboration with people with developmental disabilities and families, direct support workers and managers.

Guides a Learning Journey that supports action-learning about relationship building, planning with people in a person-centered way, supporting choice, & building community inclusion. (Learning Journey workbooks are available to go with the book.)

Promotes discovery of meaning in the work of offering direct support

Encourages inquiry into the effects of beliefs & values on quality

Promotes reflection on day-to-day practice to guide improvement

Fosters the use of imagery, music & art as an aid to reflection & action planning

Honors the accomplishments of people with developmental disabilities and their direct support workers by presenting their stories & reflections

This is an extraordinary opportunity to support all your staff/ students with a book that will truly Make a Difference. Learning Journey Booklets are available in bulk. The Leader’s Resource Kit is available.

IF You’re Happy and You Know It Clap Your Hand

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IF You’re Happy and You Know It Clap Your Hand:  The Poetry of David Moreau 

David Moreau is poet; a long term front line care worker; a remarkable human being. His poems explore the delight, humor, bureaucratic absurdity, and human frailty that humans face as we struggle to care for one another with dignity and sensitivity. These poems are truly about ‘human’ service, from the inside out. Provoking thoughts; deep insights; truth.

WHAT MATTERS

$25.00

Janice Fialka is a brilliant story teller, thoughtful listener and writer. What Matters includes the voice of Micah Fialka-Feldman – her son. He is a teaching assistant at Syracuse University and one of the most charming people you will ever encounter. This remarkable story, draws on the reflections from family and friends – and walks us through the family’s journey to this remarkable current reality for Micah and his friends and family. But the story begins as a stunning ‘disability’ story except that this family said no. They decided that Micah wold be fully included and have a full life. And does he ever.

What Matters also includes the voices and writing of Micah;  Emma (from the lens of a sibling and teacher of full inclusion); and Rich, who writes about his son as a window in the social justice issues. Remarkably, Janice, Rich, Micah and Emma do not hold back. They have the courage to tell the story warts and all… which is why it is a ‘must read’ for every family, every teacher – every person who cares about another person.

Micah is also one of the feathered stories in the newer Dan Habib movie “Intelligent Lives”,

Janice also did a recent podcast which focused on Micah’s Circle of Friends, it’s origins, and it’s impact on all their lives.

WhatMatters.INDEX
WhatMatters.ForewordPreface

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Waddie Welcome: DVD and Book Bundle

$95.00

Waddie Welcome: A Man Who Could Not be Denied – DVD

This is the extraordinary story of Waddie Welcome, a man born with cerebral palsy on the 4th of July, 1914. For more than 70 years he lived in Savannah, Georgia surrounded by the love and care of his family and friends. No respite care. No institutions. No day-care programs. After his primary caretaker died, he was placed in a nursing home against his wishes. He spent over ten years advocating to get out. This is a story of how a community came together to enable Waddie to move back to the community. Award-winning filmmaker Narcel G. Reedus captures the heartbreak, pain and triumph of a man who refused to be denied.

After living in a nursing home for over ten years, community members worked together to help Waddie Welcome to return home. This is the story of how personal relationships can spark and sustain justice in our society. It challenges us to redesign the responsiveness of service systems.

© The University of Georgia
Institute on Human Development and Disability

Open / Closed Captioned Audio Descriptors
Run Time: 26 Minutes    (Video production – 1997; DVD production 2011)

Waddie Welcome and the Beloved Community

Book by Tom Kohler & Susan Earle

Our purpose is to tell a story. A story about a man named Waddie Welcome.

Waddie Welcome

$80.00

This is the extraordinary story of Waddie Welcome, a man born with cerebral palsy on the 4th of July, 1914. For more than 70 years he lived in Savannah, Georgia surrounded by the love and care of his family and friends. No respite care. No institutions. No day-care programs. After his primary caretaker died, he was placed in a nursing home against his wishes. He spent over ten years advocating to get out. This is a story of how a community came together to enable Waddie to move back to the community. Award-winning filmmaker Narcel G. Reedus captures the heartbreak, pain and triumph of a man who refused to be denied.

After living in a nursing home for over ten years, community members worked together to help Waddie Welcome to return home. This is the story of how personal relationships can spark and sustain justice in our society. It challenges us to redesign the responsiveness of service systems.

© The University of Georgia

Institute on Human Development and Disability
University Center for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities
College of Family and Consumer Sciences
www.ihdd.uga.edu

Open / Closed Captioned Audio Descriptors
Run Time: 26 Minutes
(Video production – 1997; DVD production 2011)

A companion film to the book:
Waddie Welcome and the Beloved Community

Inclusive Education – Emergent Solutions

$45.00

A worldwide revolution is occurring in education of learners experiencing disabilities. The Special Education model is being replaced by Inclusive Education, educating all learners together in the regular classrooms of community schools. Inclusive Education is not simply a new way to educate students who differ in ability, hearing, vision, behaviour, or body. It is based in sweeping change of how we regard people experiencing disability and their right to full participation in society.

This book presents snapshots of the struggle of educational change as seven nations respond to this new human rights understanding of how education and disability should intersect. In various ways and at different levels, each is experiencing the tension and excitement, which always accompany change.

This book is also available as part of the    Education Pack

U-CAN Dictionary

$20.00

U-CAN Dictionary is a unique and remarkable response to the simmering literacy crisis that undermines the inherent gifts and capacities of millions of citizens. It is a ‘handbook’ for non-readers and new readers that begins at the beginning with one-letter words, then two-letter words, and then grows simply and elegantly into a carefully selected introductory English vocabulary. It is a significant contribution to literacy learning and learners everywhere.

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Also available as an ebook

Free to Fly – eBook

$15.00

Caroline Kwok M.Ed. writer, teacher, psychiatric survivor – is a Canadian – an immigrant from China, who experienced psychiatric challenges.  Remarkable, she not only survived, but she has thrived and had the courage to tell her story – because she wants to help others.  This book is now used as a text in many medical classes, and has been translated into Chinese.  It has deep wisdom – in the raw.

“All who have suffered psychological distress should read this book. It is a message of hope from one who has been there and back.”

free to fly excerpt

The Face of Mental Illness:  Interview with Caroline Kwok

Bell Let’s Talk Interview with Caroline Kwok – Jan. 28.2021 

Caroline’s Facebook page

Dr. Mary Seeman,
Order of Canada, Professor Emerita,
Dept of Psychiatry, University of Toronto

Free to Fly

$25.00

Caroline Kwok M.Ed. writer, teacher, psychiatric survivor – is a Canadian – an immigrant from China, who experienced psychiatric challenges.  Remarkable, she not only survived, but she has thrived and had the courage to tell her story – because she wants to help others.  This book is now used as a text in many medical classes, and has been translated into Chinese.  It has deep wisdom – in the raw.

free to fly excerpt

The Face of Mental Illness:  Interview with Caroline Kwok

Bell Let’s Talk Interview with Caroline Kwok – Jan. 28.2021 

Caroline’s Facebook page

Restorative Justice

$25.00

What passes for justice in Canada is a system that too often brutalizes and isolates both victim and perpetrator: the former, bewildered, shattered, feeling victimized again by a process that fails to give satisfactory answers, fails to lay matters to rest; the latter, bitter, angry, alone, condemned to a hell called prison from which he emerges almost certain to repeat his crimes. The separate universes of victim and perpetrator, thesis and antithesis, need to be integrated into a whole, a synthesis, that does not perpetuate injustice but enables justice to flower. With shining examples like Randy Charboneau’s first-hand account of his own inspiring transformation, this revolutionary book tells us how – how to turn the worst transgressions of human experience into an opportunity for understanding and healing, a process known as restorative justice. A much-needed tome, clearly and compellingly presented. May it work its magic in helping to transform our society into a community where justice is not a competitive sport but an expression of the essential fairness possible in human interaction.

with Randy Charboneau, Rick Owens and Rupert Ross

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Creating Blue Space

$25.00

Creating Blue Space:  Hanns Meissner was the director of The Arc of Rensselaer County in Eastern New York State for 25 years.  It was a ‘legacy’ agency with all the traditional approaches.  But Hanns had a relentless commitment to create enough blue space to create innovative ways to support individuals with developmental disabilities to flourish in spite of system constraints. Read, reflect, and learn about “bushwhacking” through the bureaucratic wilderness so you too can create blue space for innovation and citizenship for all to blossom.

Also available as an ebook

A NEW article by Hanns:  Disrupting the Exclusive Reliance on Expert Systems to Solve the Problem of Social Exclusion.  2021

The PATH & MAPS Handbook: Person-Centered Ways to Build Community

$35.00

The PATH & MAPS Handbook: Person-Centered Ways to Build Community

About this Handbook

25 years ago Marsha and Jack Pearpoint and John O’Brien designed MAPS and PATH as supports to people who need to discover strategies that serve their vision of inclusion in school and community life.  Decades have passed, so this handbook reflects what we have learned since the original Path Workbook in 1995.  There is also a DVD that updates much of our learning.

POWER OF THREE Bundle

Members of Each Other

$25.00

Members of Each Other:  This book is stories about working with people with developmental disabilities. But it is the same message for all of us. This book exposes the dangers of power, of isolation, of helplessness. It also challenges and gives hope for communities to take back control from the ‘professionals’, to themselves. It has tried and true tools to help to build the future. This is a ‘must read’ for any one working in this field. It’s also a great read for anyone who wants to be a fuller human.

O’Brien and O’Brien’s summary of the information contributed by several participants at brainstorming sessions provides an excellent synthesis of the many content areas covered. The ability to be heard is of special significance for participants with disabilities. O’Brien and O’Brien often present the dreams and capacities of these participants in large diagram-like features for all to follow.

This book is also available as part of the
Community Living Bundle

Making Homes that Work

$35.00

WHAT MATTERS – eBook

$15.00

WHAT MATTERS

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Janice Fialka is a brilliant story teller, thoughtful listener and writer. What Matters features the voice of Micah Fialka-Feldman – her son. Micah is a teaching assistant at Syracuse University and one of the most charming people you will ever encounter. This remarkable story, draws on the reflections from family and friends – and walks us through the family’s journey to this remarkable current reality for Micah and his friends and family. But the story begins as a stunning ‘disability’ story except that this family said no. They decided that Micah wold be fully included and have a full life. And does he ever.

Remarkably, Janice, Rich, Micah and Emma do not hold back. They have the courage to tell the story warts and all… which is why it is a ‘must read’ for every family, every teacher – every person who cares about another person.

Janice also did a recent podcast which focused on Micah’s Circle of Friends, it’s origins, and it’s impact on all their lives.

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WhatMatters.ForewordPreface

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The Abundant Community

$28.00

John McKnight and Peter Block are friends and collaborators.  They are both compelled to discover and share their deep understandings of how to build genuine communities.  Brilliant analysis with action possibilities for all of us to restore our neighbourhoods.

Intentional Teaming

$20.00

Intentional Teaming:  This book is important because we are not just being told how, we are being shown that it can be done. Intentional Teaming represents a much needed paradigm shift in the ways we work with and care for each other.  This book puts the person at the helm and offers concrete ideas for genuine support, pride, dignity and personalized participation of a labeled person and their support staff. You are going to love this book – and give it to everyone with whom you work.

A Disgrace to the Nation John O’Brien – 2005

Download Here A Reflective Piece – on the complexity of our systematic exclusion people with disabilities. John describes it as a “A disgrace to the nation”. He outlines the challenge ahead as we struggle to replace institutions. John O’Brien & Connie Lyle O’Brien: Books, Articles, Videos “A disgrace to the nation” A Turning Point in […]

An Ethics of Possibility – John O’Brien

Download: An Ethics of Possibility Direct Support Workers and an Ethic of Possibility make good lives for all possible. This article explores that possibility. Direct support workers who are guided by an ethics of possibility build a relationship worthy of the trust of the people they assist and the people who love or have loved […]

Great Questions and the Art of Portraiture – John O’Brien

Download: Great Questions & the Art of Portraiture ABSTRACT: Great Questions are a challenge to possibilities. A practitioner of person-centered planning who wanted to add the skills and roles of the portraitist to her repertoire would need to build relationships with people and their families and allies based on commitment to a common project that […]

Communitas: The Community Place

Download: Communitas: the Community Place Communitas is a prototype of possibility – a real life example of how a group of citizens could build inclusive relationships in a community – and reach out and share with the whole town. They used a post office as a hub.. COMMUNITASThe Community Place Manchester, CT 06040phone: 860-645-3177email (Bev […]

Quality Education: “It’s Not a Choice!” Forest & Pearpoint

Download: Quality Education: It’s Not a Choice! Marsha Forest – Books, Articles and Videos Jack Pearpoint – Books, Articles and Videos REVERSING REJECTION – FULL INCLUSION FOR ALLLT his little article proposes to reverse the rejection of the Beckys, Katherines, Judiths, Suneels, Sunitas, etc. There are strategies to help systems and individuals reverse the terrible […]

Hope Restored with PATH – Glenn Cochrane

Hope Restored with PATH Glenn CochraneGang Prevention CoordinatorWinnipeg, Manitoba I decided I wanted to do something that truly might be in the area of prevention, not wait until kids were in trouble but get to them early. I phoned the principal of a downtown Winnipeg core area school (Dufferin School) where I knew the principal, […]

Inclusion! The Bigger Picture: Forest & Pearpoint

Download: Inclusion! the Bigger Picture Marsha Forest – Books, Articles and Videos Jack Pearpoint – Books, Articles and Videos Inclusion! The Bigger Picture by Marsha Forest & Jack Pearpoint Our key question as we initiate a new millennium is “How do we live with one another?” Inclusion is about learning to live WITH one another. […]

A Diamond in the Rough: Kanienkeha:ka/Gayokohno Immersion Schools

Download: A Diamond in the Rough ABSTRACT:In the early 90’s, Marsha Forest, Te Ripowai Higgins (a Maori elder) and I were invited to join a meeting about ‘immersion schools on Six Nations Reserve. It was a battle zone. Indian Affairs had a powerful delegation armed with arguments and money – to have the community reject […]

MAPS: Action Planning Forest & Pearpoint

Download: MAPS: Action Planning ABSTRACT:This sort article appeared in our book “Inclusion Papers” outlining the steps of a MAP as we understood them at that time (2001). We have evolved based our experience – and although this makes good reading (historically), we would recommend using the more current version of MAPS in the book…The PATH […]

Common Sense Tools: MAPS and CIRCLES for Inclusive Education

DOWNLOADCommon Sense Tools Marsha ForestBooks, Articles and Videos Jack PearpointBooks, Articles and Videos This article went viral in the early 90s because families were starving for new options for their children, teachers could feel possibility but were trapped… So simple, down-to-earth stories of using the concepts and models of Circles and MAPS were ‘revolutionary’ to […]

Inclusion vs. Exclusion: Society is at a Turning Point

Synopsis: A short, punchy article about exclusion and Inclusion. Exclusion is unethical, politically unacceptable and repugnant to write off marginalized people in our society. The cost of welfare maintenance is unbearable, either socially or economically. In short, exclusion does not work. Inclusion works. Marsha Forest – Books, Articles and Videos Jack Pearpoint – Books, Articles […]