Al Duvall

Valuing Differences: A Process of Experience

November 30, 1995
Al Duvall, DeeAnna P. Merz

In the spring of 1994, my husband Tom and I decided to become therapeutic foster care providers. We had just finished graduate school in rehabilitation counseling. One Sunday, skimming the paper for employment opportunities, I saw an ad that read something like this:

Foster parents needed to provide in–home care to a young man with multiple disabilities. This person will be facing a series of surgeries and will need assistance with independent living skills...