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Interviewer: Nancy, what advice would you give to organizations who
are working towards changing staff attitudes?
Nancy Brooks-Lane: One thing in addition to the other comments I
made that it is important to reframe barriers and obstacles really
as opportunities to grow as a way to expand skills. New learning occurs
from those hardships that we struggle with. It makes us a much more
interesting, much more complex individual, and certainly much more
prepared to support the folks that we are working with. I think people
need to know there will be stress and hard work associated with all
of that but that it results in some of the most significant changes
in the lives of the people we support. People need to celebrate that
gift that we have been fortunate to be a part of.
Interviewer: Nancy I cannot thank you enough for the time you have
spent with us today. I would just like to ask you in closing if you
have any sort of closing recommendations to staff from various organization
who might be thinking about moving from facility based supports to
community based supports? Any final words of wisdom you would like
to share?
Nancy Brooks-Lane: I guess it is just that it is so very important
to look at what you are doing from that civil rights perspective.
The folks that we support have so many barriers that they have to
struggle with, and I think in many ways they are stronger than most
of us as a result of that. It is just the right thing to do to offer
people an opportunity to be a part of their community, to have a valued
role and those sorts of goals and life that we all want for ourselves.
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