Jack Pealer, Sandra Landis and John Winnenberg created a record of their learnings about community building and normalization by publishing SAFEGUARD LETTERS for 50 years. They also created community organizing leadership projects in order to create a society where everyone belongs and can contribute in their communities.
Visit this Safeguards Letters collection – and meet the authors and editors of stories that are as important today as when they began.
The Safeguards Letters – Complete Collection (1986-2021)
Beginning in 1986 – Jack Pealer, Sandy Landis and colleagues created a newsletter to support their network to create better futures for Ohio citizens with developmental disabilities. These letters have been scanned and made available…
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The Community Living Paper
Promoting Life in Community for Ohio’s Citizens A remarkable policy proposal developedby Safeguards in 1992. They advocated for a “Life in the Community” for persons with developmental disabilities. Their Vision is even more relevant today.…
The Community Living Broadsheet
Community Living Broadsheet – 1992Download
Jack Pealer on How Ohio Safeguards Developed as an Agent of Positive Change
For nearly five decades, Jack Pealer and the late Sandy Landis co-edited a collection of ‘letters’ that were intended to mobilize and support Ohio citizens committed to creating full lives for citizens with mental disabilities…
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Jack Pealer on How PASS workshops raised consciousness and offered people new ways to see, think, and act
PASS workshops were the foundation for Ohio Safeguards efforts to raise consciousness and mobilize action. Over five days these workshops combined a lectures on the principle of normalization with intensive small group work to create…
John Winnenberg on Building Community in Rural America
Local initiatives in Perry County, where some leaders of Ohio Safeguards lived and worked, provided many practical lessons in making values real. Residential, Inc a small agency, pioneered re-purposing group home resources as individualized supports.…
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The Safeguard Letters – Highlights from Jack Pealer
Considering the Evidence
Safeguards Letter.28.Pealer.Considering the evidenceDownload
Image for an Organization
Safeguards Letter.44.Pealer.Image for an OrganizationDownload
People with Disabilities and their Money
Safeguards Letter.38.Pealer.People with Disabilities and their MoneyDownload
The Power to Spend
Safeguards Letter. Pealer. power to spendDownload
The Safeguard Letters – Highlights from Sandra Landis
About Natural Consequences
About Natural Consequences. Sandra LandisDownload
Another Poet of Stone Soup
Safeguards Letter. Sandra Landis. Stone SoupDownload
Cabin Fever Day
Safeguards Letter. Landis. 27 Cabin Fever DayDownload
Hidden Children
Sandra Landis Hidden Children #11 1989Download
Holding a Place in Line
Safeguards Letter. Landis. Holding a Place in LineDownload
In Response to this Call to Conscience
Safeguards. In Response to this call to Conscience.Sandra Landis.kk #17 March 1991 copyDownload
On “Being of Use”
On _Being of Use_ Sandra LandisDownload
