Giving and Receiving: We Enter a Faith Program Thinking We Are Giving of Ourselves … We Receive Much More
The Personal Advocacy Service is an organization that recruits volunteers to be companions with people with intellectual disabilities. The advocates assist in helping people become part of their community, including congregations, and the program as a whole is infused with a spiritual dimension. Exp...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Routledge
2004
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In: |
Journal of religion, disability & health
Year: 2004, Volume: 8, Issue: 1/2, Pages: 125-128 |
Further subjects: | B
Disability
B personal advocacy B Religion |
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Summary: | The Personal Advocacy Service is an organization that recruits volunteers to be companions with people with intellectual disabilities. The advocates assist in helping people become part of their community, including congregations, and the program as a whole is infused with a spiritual dimension. Experiences of advocates, participants, and parents are briefly described. |
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ISSN: | 1522-9122 |
Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of religion, disability & health
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1300/J095v08n01_10 |