Keystone Institute 2012 Schedule of Educational Events
Registration Guidelines
Registrations for educational events will be taken by telephone, email, or mail. Unless otherwise noted, events are on a first come/first served basis, so early registration is recommended.
Waiting lists will be maintained for events which are filled to capacity, and cancelled spaces will be offered to those people on the waiting list.
For all events contained within the annual Keystone Institute Events Schedule, there is no per-event fee for tuition, materials, or training space for employees and board members of Keystone Human Services, people served by Keystone Human Services or their family members. For other attendees, fees will be charged as outlined in the Keystone Institute Event Fees listing (available by contacting us at 717-909-9425).
Unless otherwise noted, a simple lunch will be provided for each full day workshop.
In order to make the most of the educational opportunities for all attendees, we ask that all participants make every effort to arrive on time to all events, return from breaks and lunch on time, and to stay until the event has concluded. Any plans to leave early or arrive late should be discussed with Institute staff and one's supervisor prior to the event.
Cancellations for registrations are accepted up to three business days prior to the event. For cancellations received with less than three business days notice, there may be an event fee charged to the agency equal to the pro-rated cost of the event.
Please note: Meetings/workshops marked with an
either have pre-requisites or require prior approval for attendance.
- January 2012
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- Helping People to Have a Meaningful Life During the Day
- An SRV Implementation Workshop
- Date: January 9-10 each day
- Location: Fort Hunter Centennial Barn, Harrisburg, PA
- Time: 9am-5pm
- This workshop focuses on why it is so difficult to design and implement supports for people to have full, meaningful days; what kind of vision is required to guide our actions in this area; and how essential it is to help people develop positive social roles. In addition to the presentation, participants work in small groups to develop concrete ideas around supporting one person to spend their time in more fulfilling and meaningful ways during the day. This is an ideal workshop for people interested in developing supports for people that are quite different from the day and work programs typically available.

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- The Difference a Welcome Can Make
- Date: January 17
- Location: The Community Room at Giant; Linglestown Rd., Harrisburg, PA
- Time: 9am-12pm
- People who are marginalized and excluded from society may rarely (or never) have experienced an authentic welcome in other people's hearts and minds or at many (or any) of the typical places community members frequent. A true welcome is what makes the difference between merely being present and belonging. This workshop will look at how we can create conditions of welcoming in minds, hearts and places. Participants will reflect on how they have personally experienced true welcome and what the essential ingredients of a genuine welcoming are.
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- What is a Home?
- An SRV Implementation Workshop
- Date: January 18
- Location: Sunbury, PA
- Time: 9am-4:30pm
- This day of reflection, discussion, and discovery will focus on the concept of home: What is the importance and meaning of home? What does it mean to have one's own home? How do we create home for others? Through small group work, presentation, and discussion, we will explore ways to assess how we are doing in this area, which is central to so much of the work that we do.
- We recommend registering early for this popular event.
- February 2012
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M T W T F 1 2 3 6 7 8 9 10 13 14 15 16 17 20 21 22 23 24 27 28 29 █ = Regular event; █ = Pre-requisite or prior approval required 
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- Power Tools for SRV Implementation: Person Centered Thinking
- Date: February 9
- Location: Keystone Institute, 940 East Park Dr., Harrisburg, PA
- Time: 10am-12pm
- SRV Study Group: For those who have attended the 28 hour SRV course, study groups are an excellent opportunity to meet other SRV grads, share ideas about implementation, and develop SRV knowledge through personal exploration and participatory learning. This year's series focuses on several powerful tools based on SRV principles. Learn the tools, deepen your understanding of them and put them to use in improving the lives of the people you support.
- This study group, led by KHS SRV Leadership Group members Eileen Scott, Kim Riegel, and Tiffany Irvin, focuses on the concept of person centered thinking - a simple but critical idea in figuring out how to individualize support and maximize identification with people who have lived on the margins of society.

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- Introduction to Person Centered Planning
- Person Centered Planning Series
- Date: February 17
- Location: The Community Room at Giant, Linglestown Rd., Harrisburg, PA
- Time: 9:30am-12:30pm
- Person Centered Planning Series - Session 1: This workshop introduces participants to the basic principles and techniques of person centered planning. It is a philosophy and an approach to respectful listening and meaningful planning. The planning process focuses on creating a positive vision of the future for the person based on his or her capacities, strengths, and preferences, and creates a support network built around personal commitment and community involvement.
- While participation in the entire series is encouraged, it is not required.
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- Introduction to Social Role Valorization
- Date: February 21-23
- Location: Lancaster Campus of Harrisburg Area Community College, Lancaster, PA
- Time: 8am-6:30pm, 8am-6:30pm, 8am-4:30pm
- This workshop examines in detail the common life experiences of people who are devalued by society. Also presented is the idea that assisting people to have positive social roles is a productive and helpful response to those wounding life experiences. People wishing to understand the life experiences of people they support (as well as the implications of those life experiences), and people committed to working toward making life better are encouraged to attend.
- Participants should be prepared for significant lecture style presentation.


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- Power of Roles
- Date: February 27
- Location: Newark, DE
- Time: 9am-4pm
- This workshop gives participants a practical introduction to the principles of Social Role Valorization. Through a combination of multimedia presentation and small group discussion, participants will learn about the phenomenon of social devaluation.
- This event includes discussion of how people with disabilities and other vulnerable people have been systematically devalued by society and what the impact of that devaluation has been. Participants will learn about ways to help people have better lives and achieve positive valued social roles. The workshop will include practical implementation strategies.
- March 2012
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- What is a Home?
- An SRV Implementation Workshop
- Date: March 6
- Location: Lancaster Campus of Harrisburg Area Community College, Lancaster, PA
- Time: 9am-4:30pm
- This day of reflection, discussion, and discovery will focus on the concept of home: What is the importance and meaning of home? What does it mean to have one's own home? How do we create home for others? Through small group work, presentation, and discussion, we will explore ways to assess how we are doing in this area which is central to so much of the work that we do.
- We recommend registering early for this popular event.
- April 2012
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M T W T F 2 3 4 5 6 9 10 11 12 13 16 17 18 19 20 23 24 25 26 27 30 █ = Regular event; █ = Pre-requisite or prior approval required 
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- The Difference that Makes a Difference: A Day of Searching & Reflection with John O'Brien
- Date: April 4
- Location: Camp Hebron, Halifax, PA
- Time: 9am-4pm
- In this day of highly organized, corporate human services, what can help us remain closely connected to the people we serve, and help those connections bear fruit in people's lives and our society? What can be done to make "the difference that makes a difference"?
- Join us for a day of searching, listening, and learning around examining the difference that your presence can make in the lives of others. Together with the renowned author, thinker and change agent John O'Brien, we'll explore the questions that bring us to this work, and that keep us searching for ways to build community together. John will lead us to think about the contributions that people with disabilities and their allies can make towards weaving a stronger social fabric and some of the practices and ways of thinking that can help these contributions happen.
- John O'Brien is a leading thinker who has written widely in the field of disability. He is a pioneer and lifelong advocate of Person Centered Planning. His values-based approach emphasizes learning with each person about the direction their lives could take, challenging and overcoming practices, structures and values that lead to segregation and underestimation rather than inclusion , and an approach to change in people's lives based on 'imagining better.' His thinking is based on Social Role Valorization and the social model of disability. His work over the decades has been hugely influential in the development of ideas about the capacity of people to take part of everyday good life, and the capacities of community to include all people. Register early as this event will fill quickly.
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- SRV Leadership Summit
- Date: April 5
- Location: Camp Hebron, Halifax, PA
- Time: 9am-5pm
- The SRV Leadership Summit serves as an opportunity for SRV leaders to gather for personal and group exploration of the concepts of Social Role Valorization, refinement of understanding of these concepts, and personal growth and development planning.
- This event is open to members of the Keystone SRV Leadership group.

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- Best Part of Me
- Date: April 11-12
- Location: Camp Hebron, Halifax, PA
- Time: 9am-6pm, 9am-3pm
- What are the best parts of ourselves which we bring to the work we do? Best Part of Me is aimed at identifying and acknowledging the gifts people have and bring to their work. This workshop includes individual reflection and group discussion, along with plenty of time for building meaningful relationships with colleagues from other parts of the organization. This event is held over two days in a beautiful wooded retreat setting.

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- Power Tools for SRV Implementation: Personal Identity
- SRV Study Group
- Date: April 17
- Location: Keystone Institute, 940 East Park Dr., Harrisburg, PA
- Time: 10am-12pm
SRV Study Group: For those who have attended the 28 hour SRV course, study groups are an excellent opportunity to meet other SRV grads, share ideas about implementation, and develop SRV knowledge through personal exploration and participatory learning. This year's series focuses on several powerful tools based on SRV principles. Learn the tools, deepen your understanding of them and put them to use in improving the lives of the people you support.- This study group, led by KHS SRV Leadership Group members Paula Davenport and Angela Thomas–Session, will help us think through the most essential tool of developing a big vision of valued roles: knowing the person. Join us as we expose stereotypes about people, and who they are assumed to be, and focus on people's identities by looking at areas such as giftedness, capacity, history, and life purpose.
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- Introduction to Social Role Valorization
- Date: April 24-26
- Location: Camp Hebron, Halifax, PA
- Time: 8am-6:30pm, 8am-6:30pm, 8am-4:30pm
- This workshop examines in detail the common life experiences of people who are devalued by society. Also presented is the idea that assisting people to have positive social roles is a productive and helpful response to those wounding life experiences. People wishing to understand the life experiences of people they support (as well as the implications of those life experiences), and people committed to working toward making life better for the people they support, are encouraged to attend.
- Participants should be prepared for significant lecture style presentation.
- May 2012
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- Power of Roles
- Date: May 3
- Location: Lancaster Campus of Harrisburg Area Community College, Lancaster, PA
- Time: 9am-4pm
- This workshop gives participants a practical introduction to the principles of Social Role Valorization. Through a combination of multimedia presentation and small group discussion, participants explore the phenomenon of social devaluation. This event includes discussion of how people with disabilities and other vulnerable people have been systematically devalued by society and what the impact of that devaluation has been. Participants will learn about ways to help people have better lives and achieve positive valued social roles. The workshop will include practical implementation strategies.
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- Designing & Implementing a Person Centered Planning Process
- Person Centered Planning Series
- Date: May 11
- Location: The Community Room at Giant, Linglestown Rd Harrisburg, PA
- Time: 10am-3pm
- Person Centered Planning Series - Session 2: This second workshop of the series focuses its attention on developing a personal profile using person centered thinking tools. Participants will be exposed to a variety of tools that aide in getting to know the person they support in a fundamentally different way and how to use the knowledge gained to develop a "One Page Profile" as well as an action-oriented plan for the future.
- While participation in the entire series is encouraged, it is not required.
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- What is a Home?
- An SRV Implementation Workshop
- Date: May 16
- Location: The Macungie Institute, Macungie, PA
- Time: 9am-4:30pm
- This day of reflection, discussion, and discovery will focus on the concept of home: What is the importance and meaning of home? What does it mean to have one's own home? How do we create home for others? Through small group work, presentation, and discussion, we will explore ways to assess how we are doing in this area, which is central to so much of the work that we do.
- We recommend registering early for this popular event.
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- Deep Learning: Being of Service in 2012
- Professional Development Series
- Date: May 21-22
- Location: Millersville University, Millersville, PA
- Time: 9 am-5 pm day 1, 9am-3pm day 2, with optional overnight (evening learning and activities)
Professional Development Series at Millersville University: What does it mean to be "of service" to others? This event will allow each participant to delve deeply into the major themes of personal service that are critical in these times of highly commercialized human efforts to assist others. Dr. Thomas Neuville, author, professor, educator and lifelong learner, will pose challenges to us that will require us to engage with each other and with all kinds of resources as we push the boundaries of our assumptions and experience.- Be prepared to immerse yourself in study, research, fellowship, and creative expression. This one and one half day event includes an optional overnight stay for those traveling a distance or wishing to engage in evening fellowship and connection with other learners.
- June 2012
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M T W T F 1 4 5 6 7 8 11 12 13 14 15 18 19 20 21 22 25 26 27 28 29 █ = Regular event; █ = Pre-requisite or prior approval required -
- Power of Roles
- Date: June 6
- Location: Sunbury, PA
- Time: 9am-4pm
- This workshop gives participants a practical introduction to the principles of Social Role Valorization. Through a combination of multimedia presentation and small group discussion, participants will learn about the phenomenon of social devaluation. This event includes discussion of how people with disabilities and other vulnerable people have been systematically devalued by society and what the impact of that devaluation has been. Participants will learn about ways to help people have better lives and achieve positive valued social roles. The workshop will include practical implementation strategies.
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- Power Tools for SRV Implementation: Role Planning
- SRV Study Group:
- Date: June 7
- Location: Keystone Institute, 940 East Park Dr., Harrisburg, PA
- Time: 10am-12pm
- SRV Study Group: For those who have attended the 28 hour SRV course, study groups are an excellent opportunity to meet other SRV grads, share ideas about implementation, and develop SRV knowledge through personal exploration and participatory learning. This year's series focuses on several powerful tools based on SRV principles. Learn the tools, deepen your understanding of them and put them to use in improving the lives of the people you support.
- This study group, led by KHS SRV Leadership Group members Lori Bingaman, Michelle Porter and Betsy Neuville, will offer participants a chance to work with the ideas of role planning, role progression, and the nuts and bolts of assisting people to walk in valued roles in all life spheres. How can we practically implement and "build in" the idea of role planning in an often impersonal and mechanistic human service system? We have ideas. Bring yours; and join in conversation with us.
- Model Coherency
- Date: June 11
- Location: The Community Room at Giant, Linglestown Rd., Harrisburg, PA
- Time: 8:30am-4:30pm
- One of the most important things that a service provider can do in protecting vulnerable people, and helping to create the conditions for people to experience a full and rich life, is to assure that services are proposed, designed, and planned with great care and caution so that they truly meet the needs of the people who are served. Model Coherency embodies the idea that all elements of practice in a service should be in harmony with each other and should follow from a unifying set of principles. It requires people to think about the identity of the people who are to be served, what is it that would be required to support people well, who could do the work well, and in what ways the work could be done with consistent, high quality.
- Model Coherency is a unique and helpful tool which can be used to both conceptualize positive service designs and help participants develop a framework for services which increase the likelihood of a coherent match between people's identities, their most pressing needs, and the supports best suited to actually meet those needs.
- Prior attendance at a three-day Introduction to Social Role Valorization workshop is required to register for this event.

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- From Planning to Action – Person Centered Teams
- Person Centered Planning Series
- Date: June 28
- Location: The Community Room at Giant, Linglestown Rd., Harrisburg, PA
- Time: 9:30am-12:30pm
- Person Centered Planning Series - Session 3: This third workshop in the series introduces participants to the idea that in order for effective planning to be successful, people must be surrounded by a team that is person centered…otherwise we just end up with pretty paper. This workshop will focus on how work teams can improve their approach to helping the people they support move closer to a meaningful life.
- While participation in the entire series is encouraged, it is not required.
- July 2012
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M T W T F 2 3 4 5 6 9 10 11 12 13 16 17 18 19 20 23 24 25 26 27 30 31 █ = Regular event; █ = Pre-requisite or prior approval required
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- Adventures in Attitudes
- Date: July 25-26
- Location: Fort Hunter, Harrisburg, PA
- Time: 8:30am-4:30pm each day
- Everyone a student; everyone a teacher… this is the experience of Adventures in Attitudes. Keystone held its first Adventures in Attitudes workshop in 1986 and we are pleased to continue to offer this popular event. This active, participatory workshop focuses on leadership development and personal and professional enrichment through an engaging process. Effective listening, communication skills, attitudes of empowerment, creative problem solving, team building strategies, and reaching one's potential are focal points around which participants both learn and teach.
- August 2012
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M T W T F 1 2 3 6 7 8 9 10 13 14 15 16 17 20 21 22 23 24 27 28 29 30 31 █ = Regular event; █ = Pre-requisite or prior approval required
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- Offering Hospitality
- Date: August 7
- Location: The Community Room at Giant, Linglestown Rd., Harrisburg, PA
- Time: 9am-12pm
- Hospitality is a time-honored expression of high regard, welcoming, and connection to others. It has also been described as a fading art in these times. Both offering and receiving hospitality is an experience that enriches us and completes us. Join us as we explore the practice and meaning of hospitality, and consider what it can bring to the lives of people who often have not had opportunities to experience it or offer it.
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- Power Tools for SRV Implementation: The Culturally Valued Analogue
- SRV Study Group
- Date: August 21
- Location: Keystone Institute, 940 East Park Dr., Harrisburg, PA
- Time: 10am-12pm
- SRV Study Group: For those who have attended the 28 hour SRV course, study groups are an excellent opportunity to meet other SRV grads, share ideas about implementation, and develop SRV knowledge through personal exploration and participatory learning. This year's series focuses on several powerful tools based on SRV principles. Learn the tools, deepen your understanding of them and put them to use in improving the lives of the people you support. This study group, led by KHS SRV Leadership Group members Sue Rowell and Devon Speelman, will explore one of the simplest, intuitive, and yet often completely overlooked or misunderstood concept within SRV: the idea of using the culturally valued analogue when trying to think through what may be helpful in someone's life. Join us as we explore how to build in the question "What happens for typical people who have a valued status?" This tool will provide you with invaluable time- tested guidance in working toward a more inclusive society and a more included, fulfilling life for people.
- September 2012
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M T W T F 3 4 5 6 7 10 11 12 13 14 17 18 19 20 21 24 25 26 27 28 █ = Regular event; █ = Pre-requisite or prior approval required
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- Introduction to Social Role Valorization
- Date: September 10-12
- Location: Sunbury, PA
- Time: 8am-6:30pm, 8am-6:30pm, 8am-4:30pm
- This workshop examines in detail the common life experiences of people who are devalued by society. Also presented is the idea that assisting people to have positive social roles is a productive and helpful response to those wounding life experiences. People wishing to understand the life experiences of people they support (as well as the implications of those life experiences), and people committed to working toward making life better for the people they support, are encouraged to attend.
- Participants should be prepared for significant lecture-style presentation.
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- Understanding People's Histories
- Date: September 21
- Location: The Community Room at Giant, Linglestown Rd. Harrisburg, PA
- Time: 9am-3:30pm
- The first step in assessing what a person may need in terms of service and support is understanding the person's unique identity. Nothing so powerfully shapes human identities like the life experiences that people have endured and survived. Many of the people we have supported over the years have difficulty articulating the stories of their lives, have few connections with people who can recount that history for them, and have few possessions to connect them with their past. Because of this, people's histories tend to be poorly understood, factually incorrect, full of myth and rumor, or completely unknown. This makes it difficult to have a sense of the person's true identity, motivations, and perspectives, which can result in dire consequences for the person. This workshop introduces tools, methods, and techniques to help re-discover people's histories, mine them for meaning and relevance, and learn from them to better understand the person.
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- Power Tools for SRV Implementation: The Foundation Study
- SRV Study Group
- Date: September 27
- Location: Keystone Institute, 940 East Park Dr., Harrisburg, PA
- Time: 10am-12pm
- SRV Study Group: For those who have attended the 28 hour SRV course, study groups are an excellent opportunity to meet other SRV grads, share ideas about implementation, and develop SRV knowledge through personal exploration and participatory learning. This year's series focuses on several powerful tools based on SRV principles. Learn the tools, deepen your understanding of them and put them to use in improving the lives of the people you support. This study group, led by KHS SRV Leadership Group members Pam Seetoo, Ellwyn Andres, and Theresa White-Lightner, will explore two of the most important questions you need to really know about people you intend to serve well: Who are the people and what do they need? Join us as we think about how we might answer those questions together. The foundation discussion gives us a framework for studying these questions, and learning from them.
- October 2012
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M T W T F 1 2 3 4 5 8 9 10 11 12 15 16 17 18 19 22 23 24 25 26 29 30 31 1 2 █ = Regular event; █ = Pre-requisite or prior approval required -
- Helping People to have a Meaningful Life During the Day
- An SRV Implementation Workshop
- Date: October 11-12 each day
- Location: Lancaster, PA
- Time: 9am-5pm
- This workshop focuses on why it is so difficult to design and implement supports for people to have full, meaningful days; what kind of vision is required to guide our actions in this area; and how essential it is to help people develop positive social roles. In addition to the presentation, participants work in small groups to develop concrete ideas around supporting one person to spend their time in more fulfilling and meaningful ways during the day. This workshop is for people interested in developing supports for people that are quite different from the day and work programs typically available.
- November 2012
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M T W T F 29 30 31 1 2 5 6 7 8 9 12 13 14 15 16 19 20 21 22 23 26 27 28 29 30 █ = Regular event; █ = Pre-requisite or prior approval required -
- Introduction to PASSING
- Date: October 29-November 2
- Location: TBD
- Time: 5 days, late nights, overnight stays
- This five day workshop is for those who are interested in deepening their knowledge of the principles of Social Role Valorization. The workshop involves learning to use the PASSING assessment tool, which looks at the realities of Social Role Valorization in practice. Most of the work done in PASSING is done in teams and involves visiting and assessing the quality of two human service programs based on SRV criteria. The week's work is conducted under the guidance of an experienced team leader.
- Prior attendance at a three-day Introduction to Social Role Valorization workshop is required to register for this event.
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- Community & Culture
- Date: November 8-9
- Location: Black Rock Retreat, Quarryville, PA
- Time: 9am-6pm, 9am-3pm
- Community & Culture provides a forum for addressing assumptions and attitudes around the work we do. What is our role in society's evolving understanding of differences between people, their abilities and contributions? What effect can we have on future generations? This event is held over two days in a beautiful wooded retreat setting.
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- Power Tools for SRV Implementation: Model Coherency
- SRV Study Group
- Date: November 13
- Location: Keystone Institute, 940 East Park Dr., Harrisburg, PA
- Time: 10am-12pm
- SRV Study Group: For those who have attended the 28 hour SRV course, study groups are an excellent opportunity to meet other SRV grads, share ideas about implementation, and develop SRV knowledge through personal exploration and participatory learning. This year's series focuses on several powerful tools based on SRV principles. Learn the tools, deepen your understanding of them and put them to use in improving the lives of the people you support.
- This study group, led by KHS SRV Leadership Group members Dan Petrosky, Matt Nguyen, and Susan Rowell, takes us back to that brief but interesting overview of Model Coherency that sometimes gets lost in the SRV workshop. This study group provides an opportunity to revisit these ideas and take them a step further. Service design and evaluation can be made easier and clearer by developing a working understanding of Model Coherency.
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- Power of Roles
- Date: November 14
- Location: Keystone Institute, 940 East Park Dr., Harrisburg, PA
- Time: 9am-4pm
- This workshop gives participants a practical introduction to the principles of Social Role Valorization. Through a combination of multimedia presentation and small group discussion, participants learn about the phenomenon of social devaluation. This event focuses on how people with disabilities and other vulnerable people have been systematically devalued by society and what the impact of that devaluation has been. Participants will learn about ways to help people have better lives and achieve positive valued social roles. The workshop will include practical implementation strategies.

- December 2012
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M T W T F 3 4 5 6 7 10 11 12 13 14 17 18 19 20 21 24 25 26 27 28 31 █ = Regular event; █ = Pre-requisite or prior approval required -
- What is a Home?
- An SRV Implementation Workshop
- Date: December 3
- Location: Newark, DE
- Time: 9am-4:30pm
- This day of reflection, discussion, and discovery will focus on the concept of home: What is the importance and meaning of home? What does it mean to have one's own home? How do we create home for others? Through small group work, presentation, and discussion, we will explore ways to assess how we are doing in this area, which is central to so much of the work that we do.
- We recommend registering early for this popular event.

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- Finding Meaning in the Work: Contributions of Support Workers in Lives of Vulnerable People
- Date: December 11
- Location: Fort Hunter Centennial Barn, Harrisburg, PA
- Time: 9:30am-3:30pm
- We believe that direct support workers make essential contributions to the lives of the people they support, when they are committed, competent, and capable. Opportunities to reflect on what is meaningful in direct service work are an important source of the learning that underpins good work and the effective leadership of service organizations.
- Please join us for focused discussion, conversation and facilitated exercises as we explore the contributions that direct support workers make in the lives of people they support, delve into what the work means to us personally and professionally, and gain a measure of clarity together on what is worth doing and doing well.
Person Centered Planning Facilitators Training Series Schedule
This series is open to employees who have received the endorsement of their agency's Executive Director and requires a commitment to participate in the complete series for a total of 50 hours of training.
Each of the following sessions will be held at Fort Hunter Centennial Barn, Harrisburg, PA; 9:30am-4pm
- Session 1: Introduction to Person Centered Planning
- July 16
- Session 1 includes an introduction to the Person Centered Planning process, Throwing Away the Garbage exercise, Judge's Wig exercise, a look at Learning Styles, Koru Question, several tools of the process (Circle of Relationships, MAPS, PATH), North Star exercise, and Change Gauge.
- Session 2: PATH
- July 17
- Session 2 is a PATH practice session. Participants take on the role of focus person, graphic facilitator and process facilitator. Each person leaves having been in each role at least once.
- Session 3: MAPs
- July 18
- Session 3 is a MAP practice session. Participants take on the role of focus person, graphic facilitator and process facilitator. Each person leaves having been in each role at least once.

- Session 4: Tools for Change
- August 23
- Session 4 includes a look at other tools of the Person Centered Planning process including Personal Futures Planning, Essential Lifestyles Planning, Negotiating Roadblocks, Four Questions, Color, Six Thinking Hats, Mind Mapping and others.
- Session 5: The Art of Facilitation
- August 24
- Session 5 looks at what is masterful facilitation and the personal qualities, skills and abilities needed within this role, reviews of the person centered planning cycle, selecting the tool, and the role of the facilitator throughout the process.
- Session 6: Mindfulness Forum
- September 24
- Session 6 is an exploration into each participant's motivations and values surrounding the role of facilitator. The purpose of the forum is to increase our mindfulness about those motivations and values in order to gain clarity and more fluidly and consciously step into the role of facilitator.
- Session 7: Series Wrap-Up
- September 25
- Session 7 wraps up the series by bringing everyone together to review the series, future facilitation ideas, personal action statements, upcoming learning opportunities, questions, and sharing of resources.
The Person Centered Planning Facilitator's Retreat
May 30; Fort Hunter Centennial Barn; Harrisburg, PA; 9:30-3:30
This retreat brings together those people who have previously successfully completed the seven-part Facilitator's Training Series (at any point in the past) to continue our journey in learning and growing in the role of "masterful facilitator."
Keystone Institute Workshop Facilities
- Keystone Institute
- 940 East Park Drive, Harrisburg, PA
http://www.keystonehumanservices.org
http://g.co/maps/buuj5 - The Community Room at Giant
- 2300 Linglestown Road, Harrisburg, PA
http://www.giantfoodstores.com
http://g.co/maps/tnskv - Black Rock Retreat Center
- 1345 Kirkwood Pike, Quarryville, PA
http://www.blackrockretreat.com
http://g.co/maps/3acsf - Camp Hebron
- 957 Camp Hebron Road, Halifax, PA.
http://www.camphebron.org
http://g.co/maps/n7rnz - Harrisburg Area Community College (Lancaster Campus)
- 1641 Old Philadelphia Pike, Lancaster, PA
http://www.hacc.edu/Lancaster/Directions
http://g.co/maps/5j6br - Millersville University
- 1 South George Street, Millersville, PA.
http://www.millersville.edu/directions
http://g.co/maps/8fk2m

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