CRUcial Times 5: Articles from employment services

This edition of CRUcial Times focuses on the theme of "Articles from employment services"

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This edition contains the following articles:

Editorial

Anne Cross


CRU Presidents Report

Mike Duggan


Poem: Opportunity knocks

Jane Sherwin


The following four articles are presented by people who speak from their experience as service providers. The topics raise many important issues, highlighting some of the problems faced by service providers and service users. There are, however, also many inspiring success stories and one such story is reproduced, with permission, as an insert to this publication.


Employment services and individual empowerment

Bob Lee


Employment services in a rapidly changing environment

Peter Callaghan.  CQ Personnel Services, Rockhampton


The employment playing field - levelled by governments, but also land mined

Ann Greer and Sharon Yoxall.  IMPACT, Townsville


Avoiding the pattern of "perpetual trainee"

Sue Bradnock & Eric Jones


Book review - Home at last: How two young women with profound intellectual and multiple disabilities achieved their own home.

Review by Beverley Funnell

Home At Last: How Two Young Women with Profound Intellectual and Multiple Disabilities Achieved Their Own Home
By Pat Fitton, Carol O’Brien and Jean Willson