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Waddie Welcome: A Man Who Cannot Be Denied

Center:

GA-Institute on Human Development and Disability, UCEDD

Fiscal Year:

2008

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Product Description:

This award winning video documents the power of person-centered planning, the success of supported living, and the advocacy needed to support persons with sever disabilities. It signifies and effort to sustain justice and challenges us to redesign the responsiveness of community service systems. Waddie Welcome, a man with severe disabilities who lived with his family in Savannah, Georgia, for more than 60 years, was placed in a Nursing Home after his last surviving brother died. But Mr. Welcome resoved to return to community living, and did with the help from an new-found circle of friends. Director: Narcel Reedus; Executive Producer: Gillian Grable. Open captioned; running time: 26 minutes.

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Electronic Products

Target Audience:

Consumers/Families, Professionals, Students

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Captioned, Audio (cassette, audio file, etc.)

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