Community Living & Employment

Elements of Design: Frameworks for Facilitating Person-Centered Planning is a manual for people interested in offering facilitation services to guide individuals, families, and teams through the person-centered planning process.  This manual...

Originally published as Knowing Jesse, this “fine and moving” memoir (Los Angeles Times) by actress Marianne Leone tells the uplifting story of her son’s life.Jesse Cooper was an honor-roll student who loved to windsurf and write poetry...

 During a time when people who were branded and stigmatized as "feebleminded" and a danger to society were banished to a life of isolation and total segregation, thousands of children and adults were institutionalized in large state operated...

ISBN 0-9677276-1-8 Reach for the Stars! was written to challenge direct service staff to become effective, skilled agents of change- to become high-performing community rehabilitation professionals (CRPs).  Written primarily as a staff development...

In Touchstone, Denise Park Parsons tells the story of her daughter’s life with Aicardi Syndrome, which becomes the lens through which the reader views the author’s life over thirty years. The book tells how Park Parsons encountered the...

This is the story of Micah, who has an intellectual disability, his community, and his ground-breaking journey to full inclusion in K-12 schools, college, work and life. It is told by Micah, as well as his parents, his sister, friends and colleagues in...

Features: The 75-minute "Director's Cut", as well as the 56 minute "Public TV Cut" of the documentary film Who Cares About Kelsey? features:  Closed captioning Audio description Bleeped or Unbleeped versions Long and short film trailers...