SRVIP Personnel
Jo Massarelli
Director
 Jo Massarelli is Director of the SRV Implementation Project,
a human service training and consultation concern based in
Worcester, Massachusetts (USA). She divides her time at the
project between teaching Social Role Valorization-based workshops,
and working with families, human service staff and people with
impairments to bring about positive change, one person at a
time.
She has taught at workshops and lectured at conferences across
the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand to a variety
of human service workers serving a wide range of people devalued
due to mental retardation, mental disorder, physical impairment,
age (elders), and poverty. Ms. Massarelli has also evaluated
dozens of human service programs for children, adults and elders,
including residential, day and work programs, schools, hospice,
prisons, and homeless shelters.
Ms. Massarelli has been a teacher closely affiliated with
Dr. Wolf Wolfensberger of the Training Institute in Syracuse,
New York (USA) since 1983. She is a member and Senior Trainer
of the International SRV Training, Development and Safeguarding
Council, which meets twice a year to further develop SRV and
keep it relevant to changing human service contexts. With Dr.
Wolfensberger and a group of associates, she is heavily involved
in teaching workshops on two crucial topics: how to provide
service that is morally coherent in a disfunctional human service
world, and how to craft a coherent protective stance in the
face of serious societal threats to the lives of socially devalued
people.
Ms. Massarelli has a particular interest in advocacy in medical
settings. She teaches a variety of workshops on protecting
vulnerable people in the hospital, and on medical decision
making. She has co-written a manual based on these workshops.
She is also a member of the Medical Safeguards Project, which
is a group of nurses and doctors in Massachusetts who are committed
to safeguarding the health and lives of mentally impaired people
with significant medical needs. Ms. Massarelli serves as a
consultant for Family Lives, a program for children with multiple
impairments who require twenty-four hour nursing care. Family
Lives is committed to providing the medical support necessary
for the children to live at home, and Ms. Massarelli works
to assist family and nurses alike to envision and realize more
than the "patient" role for those served.
Ms. Massarelli serves as an advocate associate to the North
Quabbin Citizen Advocacy project. She is involved in training
Citizen Advocacy boards and advocates in how social devaluation
affects human service recipients.
Jo Massarelli and her husband Marc Tumeinski are members of
a voluntary community responding to the needs of homeless people
in Worcester, Massachusetts, where they live. They offer hospitality
to poor and homeless people in their home.
Joe Osburn
Associate
 Joe Osburn has worked in human services
since 1964, in a variety of direct service, administrative,
and consultative positions primarily with poor families and
families with handicapped children. Since 1974, his work has
focused particularly on the dissemination and application of
normalization/Social Role Valorization (SRV) as a major safeguard
in the lives of handicapped, poor, elderly, and other socially
vulnerable people. He has visited and assessed many different
types of human services throughout the United States, Canada,
Great Britain and Australia. Currently, he directs the Safeguards
Initiative, a non-profit SRV-based project established in 1991.
His main activities include planning and conducting SRV and
related training for providers and recipients of services;
coordinating and leading comprehensive in-depth evaluations
of service quality of human service programs, agencies, and
service systems; writing; and other related SRV-based projects.
Mr.
Osburn maintains a long-standing affiliation with Wolf Wolfensberger,
Ph.D., the formulator of Social Role Valorization. He is
a member of the North American SRV Development, Training & Safeguarding
Council. He has taught both graduate and undergraduate level
courses and have been a guest lecturer on frequent occasions
at many different colleges and universities, and also has been
a presenter at many conferences, meetings, and similar events.
He regularly provides support to a few small communal organizations
that practice hospitality, life-sharing, or other forms of
solidarity with socially vulnerable families and individuals.
Marc Tumeinski
Trainer/Journal Editor
 Marc Tumeinski’s background is in supported employment
for adults with mental disorders, as well as in helping teenagers
with impairments to be integrated in their school and community.
More recently, he has been supporting adults with physical
and intellectual impairments to have a good home life and to
be a valued participant in their neighborhood and larger community.
He has taught in the US, Canada, New Zealand and Australia.
Marc has studied and presented with Dr. Wolfensberger, and
is a member of the North American SRV Council. Marc Tumeinski
is the Editor in Chief of the SRV Journal.
He is interested in the issue of restraint use in services,
in particular on the impact it has on reciepients, and the
relationship between human service workers and those whom they
restrain. Marc has worked with a group of family members and
service workers in Ontario, Canada to develop a coherent response
to the problems associated with the prevalent practice of restraint
use. He has written an article on the topic of restraint use
(read
here) which was published in the
February 2005 issue of Mental
Retardation.
Marc and his wife Jo Massarelli lived as volunteers in a
small homeless shelter, and they now offer hospitality in their
home to poor and homeless people.
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