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NCHPAD - Building Healthy Inclusive Communities

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Through system-directed change, effective inclusion services that will benefit not only agency staff and participants, but the greater community, can be facilitated. It is important to note, as in the examples above, that inclusive services can and will look different at each organization, but this does not determine the effectiveness of services. Effective inclusion services require teamwork, education, and infrastructure. Establishing a framework, however, is only laying a foundation for true inclusion to occur. True inclusion must become a value that is shared by all parties involved, and when it is, inclusion will happen naturally on its own accord. For true inclusion, as stated by Schleien above, is not something that can be forced upon individuals or mandated by law. In many ways it can be described as Victor Frankl explains success:

Don't aim at success -- the more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it. For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must be ensued...as the unintended side-effect of one's personal dedication to a course greater than oneself (as cited in FLOW: The Psychology of the Optimal Experience, 1991).

By seeing inclusion as a value, it becomes a "course greater than oneself." It becomes something intuitively worthwhile that we, as recreation professionals, are sincerely privileged to share with those we serve.


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