Belonging, Contribution, and Community: Why Valued Roles Matter

Jack Yates has been a teacher and consultant of human service staff and families for over fifty years. His teaching derives from the ideas of Dr. Wolf Wolfensberger, his principal teacher, and focuses on such topics as combating the societal devaluation of people with disabilities and other marginalized social classes, lessons–good and bad–from human service history, and making connections for excluded people with the community. Jack was one of the originators of person-centered planning, and since then he has conducted hundreds of such planning sessions. Jack served as a visiting lecturer at Harvard Divinity School for years, conducting a course called “The Inclusive Community”.  He has conducted countless staff development classes, workshops, and conferences and is a highly regarded thought-leader who has made immense impact through his teachings.  

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