SRV 4.0 Manual

Valued Lives: An Invitational Course on Social Role Valorization Faculty List Elizabeth “Betsy” Neuville serves dual roles as Executive Director of the Keystone Institute, a US-based educational Institute, and Director of Keystone Institute India. She has well over 30 years of experience within Keystone as a human service worker, administrator, agency director, evaluator, educator, and personal advocate, as well as extensive experience in designing and developing supports for very vulnerable people, meaningful quality measurements, and extraordinary employee development programs.

Betsy first served as Executive Director of Keystone Human Services of Lancaster for 13 years, designing and directing supports for adults and children with developmental disabilities and/or mental disorders. She has assisted literally hundreds of people to leave institutions and establish themselves as valued and contributing members of their communities.

Equally important, she has been involved with the closure of several large government institutions, and she established the use of person-centered processes to assist people to gain a vision of full, rich, community lives. Betsy led Keystone in gaining a reputation for successfully supporting people who many others had given up on, and has mentored a great number of passionate change agents to carry on this work. Over the next two decades, she has focused on consulting and training nationally and internationally on inclusive practice.

Betsy has worked extensively with the ideas of Normalization and Social Role Valorization, and provides training and consultation both nationally and internationally. She is fully accredited by the North American Social Role Valorization as a senior trainer of SRV. She has taught SRV and PASSING in Canada, across the United States, Ireland, the UK, Holland, Turkey, Azerbaijan, Romania, and the Republic of Moldova, and all over India. She studied under the mentorship of Dr. Wolf Wolfensberger, the developer and foremost proponent of Social Role Valorization, and has, in turn, mentored and supported a generation of people committed to personal human service to others. She remains closely personally connected to people who are vulnerable and holds particular interest in the historical treatment of people with disabilities.

She began involvement with using the tools and techniques of Person-Centered Planning in 1992 as a means to move people towards better lives, and has extensively studied and used the work of Beth Mount in Personal Futures Planning and Jack Pearpoint in PATH and MAPS. She has taught person centered planning techniques across North America, India, Romania, the republic of Moldova, and Azerbaijan. She has developed techniques which merge the use of traditional PC planning with Social Role Valorization and Model Coherency, increasing the likelihood that such processes will involve identifying and meeting true needs, as well as incorporating the use of valued social roles.

Betsy divides her time equally between India and the US. She holds a Master of Science in Disability Advocacy and Leadership, and a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology and English from Bucknell University.

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