Directors’ Blog
Best Wishes in your retirement, Carlos!
Carlos Costa retired this week after fourteen years service at Spectrum. Continue reading
Barb’s New Book – Surviving A Storm
Barb Westfield has published her life story in a new book named Surviving a Storm. Continue reading
Your Support is Required, and Much Appreciated!
In 2012, Spectrum celebrated 25 years of supporting people with disabilities to build good lives in community. Help us to build for the next 25 years. Continue reading
BC Ideas Provides $15,000 Investment to Spectrum!
We are pleased to announce that Spectrum was chosen as recipient of $15,000 from the Community Living Innovation Venture for our proposal on community mapping. Continue reading
Spectrum’s 2012 Annual Report Posted
Our 25th Anniversary Annual Report has been presented to our Annual General Meeting and is available on our website. Continue reading
SRV Reflections: Susan goes back to school
The SRV course was four full days, and it was billed as a Leadership-Oriented Introductory Social Role Valorization Workshop. The curriculum was developed by Dr. Wolf Wolfensberger, who proposed the idea of SRV to replace his earlier principle of Normalization and who wrote extensively on the subject and headed the training institute at Syracuse University until his death two years ago. Continue reading
Remarkable Roles and Relationships: the Gifts and Challenges of Supporting People With Intellectual Disabilities Within Systems
Often, when those who work in Community Support get together we remark on how grateful we are to be paid to have the roles we have, and we talk about the importance of our relationships with those we support. … Continue reading
Pre-Order The ABC’s of Ability: an ABC book about the lives of adults with disabilities from Spectrum Press
The ABC’s of Ability: an ABC book about the lives of adults with disabilities created by SUSAN POWELL, photographs by Larry Wells in collaboration with Cheryl Fryfield, Siobhan Harris, Sky Hendsbee, Tricia Lins, Peter Russell, Christina Tomingas Foreword by Annabel … Continue reading
Pre-publication Orders now being take for Spectrum Press’ New Anthology
From Institutions to Individuals: On Becoming Person-Centred. An anthology of selected writings, conversations and interviews by, for and about people with intellectual disabilities and those who care about them. FEATURING Julia Downs, W. C. Gaventa, Maria Glaze, Aaron Johannes, Michael … Continue reading
Getting to Community – New Book from Susan Stanfield and Spectrum Press
An excerpt from Susan Stanfield’s upcoming new book Getting to Community: supporting people with developmental disabilities in their pursuit of the good life. For many years, we believed that a good life for someone with a developmental disability involved having … Continue reading