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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Auteur principal: Reid, Leonie (Auteur)
Type de support: Électronique Article
Langue:Anglais
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Publié: Routledge 2004
Dans: Journal of religion, disability & health
Année: 2004, Volume: 8, Numéro: 1/2, Pages: 125-128
Sujets non-standardisés:B Disability
B personal advocacy
B Religion
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Résumé: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.
ISSN:1522-9122
Contient:Enthalten in: Journal of religion, disability & health
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1300/J095v08n01_10