As you requested, this is your ACT Self-Advocacy
Resource Network Memo facilitating a national dialogue among
self-advocates and supporters and a clearinghouse for materials and
training that support self-advocacy.
Broken Record? Add Power.
Ever hear this broken record?
“We want real lives in the community. We want good jobs and real pay for our work. We want to choose the people who support us. We want to decide how we live.”
The record keeps turning, but little seems to
change—because something is missing: power.
To make real change, we need real power. The good news is that we can
become powerful.
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Please forward this Memo to a
friend or colleague.
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| 2. | Resource |
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Group Exercise Role play is a good way to learn
about using power. Try acting out a skit in which a group of
self-advocates are asking that the meal time be changed at their
home. Self-advocates want the meal at 6:30 p.m., but the “powers”
(staff, parent, cook, whoever) say that dinner is at 5:00 p.m. and
it’s not going to change. |
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Resource
Reach for
the Power Switch |
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