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You are here: Home / News / Join us Dec. 19 for free documentary event

Join us Dec. 19 for free documentary event

12/11/2017

The Institute on Disabilities at Temple University presents the film

Valuing Lives: Wolf Wolfensberger and the Principle of Normalization

from 9:30 a.m.-noon, Tuesday, December 19 

at Rodef Shalom, 4905 Fifth Ave, Pittsburgh, PA 15213

Check-in begins at 8:30 a.m.

Panel discussion, light refreshments

Free, registration is required

Valuing Lives posterGuy Caruso, co-producer of the film, Western Coordinator for the Institute on Disabilities at Temple University, and Consortium steering committee member, will facilitate the after-film discussion with panelists Paula Davis, parent and Assistant Vice Chancellor for Diversity for the University of Pittsburgh’s Schools of the Health Sciences; Al Condeluci, executive director of Community Living and Support Services (CLASS) and Consortium steering committee member; John L. Tague Jr., Consortium project director; and Bob Nelkin, president and CEO of United Way of Southwestern Pennsylvania.

The Western Pennsylvania Disability History and Action Consortium is a co-sponsor of the event, along with the Pennsylvania Developmental Disabilities Council and Disability Rights Pennsylvania.

Watch a trailer and bonus interviews, including one with Pennsylvania’s Nancy Thaler, deputy secretary of the Office of Developmental Programs for the Pennsylvania Department of Human Services.

Act 48 credits and Social Work CEUs are available. For more information, contact iod@temple.edu.

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412-204-7199 / info@wpdhac.org

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