While written some thirty years ago, this piece by Michael Smull and Susan Burke Harrison is a classic and deserves a read or reread. his handbook presents the tools needed to develop better community capacity to support people with severe reputations. For conceptual convenience it is divided into four components:
- How people receive their reputations;
- How to plan with the individual for community services;
- How to recruit and develop the supports needed to implement the plan; and
- How to avoid the most common abuses and perversions in providing supports.
From the forward: “This handbook is dedicated to the memory of Jerry
Kiracofe and Katie Johnson. Jerry Kiracofe introduced us to person centered planning and always helped us
to stay focused on the underlying values. Katie Johnson taught us how to listen to people who do not
speak for themselves.” Supporting People with Severe Reputations in the Community