Publications by John O'brien and Connie Lyle O'brien
(Reprinted from http://soeweb.syr.edu/thechp/rsapub.htm, 2003-10-11)
John O'Brien and Connie Lyle O'Brien (Responsive Systems Associates), through a subcontract with the Center on Human Policy, produce a wide range of informational material on person-centered planning, community building, and innovative services. We would like to make these publications available to you here on our web site. The majority of these files are in Abode "PDF" format and can be downloaded with the Acrobat Reader Plug-In program which is available free from Adobe Systems.
If you are looking for John O'Brien "Five Accomplishments," please see the paper, What's Worth Working For? Leadership for Better Quality Human Services.
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- Against Pain as a Tool in Professional Work on People with Severe Disabilities
- Assistance with Integrity: The Search for Accountability and the Lives of People with Developmental Disabilities
- A Chance to be Made Whole: People First Members Being Friends to Tear Down Institution Walls
- A Checklist for Evaluating Personal Assistance Services (PAS)
- Community Engagement: A Necessary Condition for Self-Determination and Individual Funding
- Cultivating Thinking Hearts: Letters from the Lifesharing Safeguards Project
- Deliberate-Fire: An Account of Organizational Transformation in Onondaga Community Living, Syracuse, New York
- Discovering Community Living: Learning from Innovations in Services to People with Mental Retardation
- Embracing Ignorance, Error, & Fallibility: Competencies for Leadership of Effective Services
- "Everything in His Life Has Changed..." Clark County's Family Grants Program
- Finding a Way to Everyday Lives: The Contribution of Person Centered Planning
- Focus on Vermont's Self-Determination Project
- The Genius of the Principle of Normalization
- Getting the Job Done: Learning to Expand the Social Resources Available to People with Severe Disabilities at Work
- Guiding People Home: The Role of Wisconsin's Supported Housing Specialist
- Implementing Self-Determination Initiatives: Some Notes on Complex Change
- Inclusion as a Force for School Renewal
- Learning About Community Support for Families of Children with Disabilities
- Living with the Questions: Notes from a Gathering of People Concerned with Supported Living
- Making a Move: Advice From People First Members About Helping People Move Out of Institutions and Nursing Homes
- My House is Covered with Papers! Reflections on a Generation of Active Citizenship
- Never Give Up: Assets Inc.’s Commitment to Community Life for People Seen as “Difficult to Serve”
- One Day at a Time: Changing a System to Realize a Dream
- The Origins of Person Centered Planning: A Community of Practice Perspective
- Pathfinders: Making the Way from Segregation to Community Life
- Paying Customers Are Not Enough: The Dynamics of Individualized Funding
- Person Centred Planning In It's Strategic Context: Towards a Framework for Reflection-In-Action
- The Politics of Person-Centered Planning
- Renewing Organizations Through Person Centered Planning
- Searching for Quality in the Crooked Map Zone
- Signs of Community Building
- Supported Living: What's the Difference?
- Telling New Stories: The Search for Capacity Among People with Severe Handicaps
- The Transition to Supported Living: Realizing the Moment and Moving On
- A Tune Beyond Us, Yet Ourselves: Power Sharing Between People with Substantial Disabilities and Their Assistants
- Unfolding Capacity: People with Disabilities and Their Allies Building Better Communities Together
- Walking Toward Freedom: One Family's Journey Into Self-Determination
- What's Worth Working For? Leadership for Better Quality Human Services