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An African Adventure:
by Ron Laing No uniform, No school, That’s the way it is in Kenya. But it doesn’t have to be. Many bushland families don’t have enough money to pay for education, which is supposed to be free, and it is free. That is, except by law a student must wear a uniform to attend school. However, many families don’t have the $18, one uniform cost, and if they have several children, it’s not going to happen. 100% of the money raised by the sale of this book ($19.95) goes toward purchasing school uniforms. They want to learn, even wait outside in hopes that some day they can go in. Buy one for yourself and a friend. This story is a detailed account of the sights, smells and people encountered on an adventure many of us have only dreamed about. The 80 plus color images throughout the book will spark your imagination. |
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About the Author: J. Jepson Wulff, PhD Jepson Wulff is a psychologist. For most of his career his work has focused on the behavior of organizations–more specifically on the design, development, and operation of systems that are client-centered. A Client-centered system serves individuals one-by-one for the purpose of enabling each individual to achieve targeted outcomes. Schooling, health delivery, elder care, and rehabilitation are all client-centered systems. Wulff's graduate training focused on learning theory. By chance, early in his work career he was challenged to address the design of a development program for a complex military system. This was in a time when we were forced to recognize that the design process for development of a complex system had become as demanding as design of the operating hardware itself. In that period the concept of 'system' as it is employed today was in the process of evolving. His response was fascination with the potential utility of 'system thinking'. In the 70's Wulff co-founded The Human Ecology Institute. This was a non-profit institute for applied research in the design, development, and management of human services and health care organizations. The Institute obtained funding for design and applied demonstrations of cost-effective organizational structures in mental health, social services, elder care, and child services. At the Institute Wulff began to evolve system models that can cost-effectively deliver individualized services to clients, and to patients. In the 80's, Wulff co-founded Learning Services, a for-profit company which became a leading provider of rehabilitation for persons with severe acquired brain injury. This company rapidly developed ten campuses serving clients nationwide. Wulff designed and installed both the business structure and the client-centered clinical program. This successful effort provided opportunity to test and demonstrate many of the concepts which lie at the heart of the Health Delivery System design presented in this book. In prior years Dr. Wulff was a member of the faculty of the Harvard Graduate School of Design, and of Florence Heller School for Advance Studies in Social Welfare at Brandeis University. Jepson Wulff's formal training was at Yale University where he received both his BA, and PhD. |