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