Madeline Burghardt, J. Clayton, H. Dougall, C. Ford
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ABSTRACT We are three institutional survivors who lived at one of Ontario's large, government-run institutions for people labeled with an intellectual disability. In 2018 we organized and led three workshops in Toronto, Ontario, to teach helping professionals how they can best support survivors. These workshops were called Listen to My Story. In this paper, we have written down our ideas about what people need to do to support people who lived in institutions. The paper starts with a preface that was written by our supporting author, followed by our ideas on things like the importance of telling our story, power and control, healing, and relationships.
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The only journal of its kind in the United States, the Journal of Progressive Human Services covers political, social, personal, and professional problems in human services from a progressive perspective. The journal stimulates debate about major social issues and contributes to the development of the analytical tools needed for building a caring society based on equality and justice. The journal"s contributors examine oppressed and vulnerable groups, struggles by workers and clients on the job and in the community, dilemmas of practice in conservative contexts, and strategies for ending racism, sexism, ageism, heterosexism, and discrimination of persons who are disabled and psychologically distressed.