WhatsUp in Disability provides PATH training, Social Role Valorisation, literacy, creative writing, journalism, radio announcing, and vocational training workshops at the Paul Myatt Community Centre
PATH Planning
PATH is a team-facilitated graphic planning process that was developed by Marsha Forest, Jack Pearpoint and John O'Brien. PATH combines the best elements of a number of vision-building and future planning tools and is one of the most useful tools for listening, planning and community-building.
PATH is an acronym for Planning Alternate Tomorrows with Hope. It is a graphic tool that assists a person, organisation or community to create a visual image of a desirable possible future. It is a map for a journey that has direction and action. It is not something that is fixed, it is fluid. It’s helpful to remember that PATH isn't a 'disability' tool. It's a great generic process that can be used to define direction in your own life, design a building, develop an organisation or even organise a community.
Social Role Valorisation
Social Role Valorisation (SRV) is designed to improve the lives of marginalised or devalued people—such as individuals with disabilities, the elderly, or the impoverished—by supporting them to obtain and maintain valued social roles.
Formulated in 1983 by psychologist Dr. Wolf Wolfensberger, the theory posits that a person’s social role dictates how they are treated by society. When people hold valued roles, they naturally access "the good things in life," including respect, home, and community belonging
