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New Neighbors[ |
New Neighbors[7], a booklet distributed widely to about one hundred service clubs of the Bay Area explaining why people with developmental disabilities can make good neighbors. |
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Emmanuel is also updating their website that can be viewed at www.gwenemmanuel.us [8] Personal Emmanuel is a very rude and manipulative person. He has a history of belittling those that worked for him. He also had a history of falsifying documents to get rid of employees that did not bow down to him. In addition, he has been known to submit fraudulant statements to keep former employees from collecting unemployment. |
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Rotary on Stamps website edited by Serriere can be seen at the rotary on stamps website <ref>www.rotaryos.com</ref>. You will need a password obtained by contacting editor@rotaryos.com. |
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Family website that can be viewed at www.gwenemmanuel.us [http://www.gwenemmanuel.us/] |
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Revision as of 16:01, 31 October 2009
Emmanuel Serrière is an educator, administrator, and advocate for people with developmental disabilities, researcher on autism.
L'Arche and Jean Vanier
Serrière has been instrumental his entire forty five year career in helping adults with developmental disabilities (California) to have a more normalized life according to their choices in their own community. One of his first important contacts was with Jean Vanier in Trosly Breuil where he was employed from February to July 1965 to help create l'Arche in that small village North of Paris. Serrière immigrated to the United States from France in 1968 and became a US citizen in 1974 and got married in June of 1976 in Saratoga, California. He obtained a Masters in Rehabilitation Administration from the University of San Francisco and subsequently became Executive Director of various California non-profit agencies in Northern California. He based his entire career on the philosophy broadly borrowed from his mentor Jean Vanier: providing people - centered services, empowering them to achieve their full potential and beyond, maximizing their quality of life according to their choices. In 1997, Serrière was appointed Calaveras County Mental Health Administrator where he worked for seven years.
Autism
As part of his Master’s thesis, Serrière did some research on autism, studying three specific cases and the insertion of these three individuals with the general population of people with developmental disabilities. He worked with Dr. Bernard Rimland, Director of the Autism Research Institute. Serrière is convinced that the diagnosis of autism should not have been altered to include the word “spectrum” to its name “autism spectrum” as it now became a catch-all for all troubled children including misbehaving and attention deficit. To respond to numerous friends and parents who approached him looking for a three-minute diagnosis of their sons or daughters, Serriere generalize by sharing his beliefs that there is no Autism or Asperger syndrome or Kanner syndrome without specific visible traits: the person afflicted with autism is in his/her own world without eye contact or paying attention to the other person. They resent being touched, even a handshake. They will often keep busy by tapping fingers on own face, a colorful toy, a window and seeming to pay deep attention to the rhythm and the sensation received from this patter. They might spin plates or doing excessive and very repetitive movement including jumping on a trampoline for hours. Of course, there are also the “Autistic Savants” or savantism who will excel in math, drawing, music, memory exercise such a retaining an entire piano concerto, the decimals of 3 over 14, the view of a details of a building, dates past and future, etc. Serrière still believes that Dr. Rimland’s long qualifying (500 questions) questionnaire should be the only basis for defining autism.
Work with California Legislators
Serriere was instrumental in introducing two major California laws, one in 1978 with Senator Roberti [1]clearly mandating that developmentally disabled people have the right to live in the community: SB 2093, introduced by Senator Roberti in 1978 requires that residential programs for 6 or fewer persons be treated and considered like any other family residence. Once the law passed, Serriere edited and published a booklet[2] that was distributed widely to about 5,000 people through one hundred service clubs of the Bay Area. The other was in 2006 with Assembly member Greg Aghazarian permitting transport agencies to also obtain Disabled access license plates (AB 1910, Ch 203, Sections 5007 and 22511.56 of the CA Vehicle Code). This new law went into effect on Jan 1, 2007. [3] His latest involvement helped Manteca CAPS (1995–2008), a day program for adults with Mental Retardation in Central California, from being stagnant and unsuccessful. With his progressive Board of Director he was able to increase the services [4] of Manteca CAPS from 50 consumers to over 300 on five campuses increasing staff from 17 to over 115.
French Radio
In 1975, and for about ten years, Emmanuel created and produced a weekly French radio program called Radio à la carte “to present you today and yesterday’s French pop music from France, Canada, Louisiana and any other French speaking country”. The One hour show was heard on KQED-FM and various other FM stations around the San Francisco Bay Area such as KCSM and others further away like KHSU-FM in Arcata and KUOP in Stockton. Emmanuel’s private collection of music was built with the help or record companies and Radio France and was composed of over 3000 records and CD to choose from. Financial support came mostly from his listeners estimated at about 40,000 at the height of his broadcasting project.
Travel Guide
Since 2004 Serrière has been involved as a world travel guide for a small company in California. Perfectly bilingual French and English Serrière traveled with groups from the USA to Morocco from Marrakesh to the Western Sahara south of Ouarzazat and the giant dunes, Monte Carlo, Saint Tropez, Geneva, Epernay and many more destinations in most luxurious accommodations. Serrière also planned events and small trips while on location such as a mini cruise to Cannes and also develops private detailed custom itineraries for trips to France especially Provence and Cote d’Azur .
Rotary International
Serrière has been a dedicated member of Rotary International since 1993. He is the Past President of the club of Manteca California. While President of the Manteca Club, Emmanuel Serrière started the first Rotary Community Corps, RCC, [5] in that district. He is also a life member of the Rotary on Stamps (RoS) [6] fellowship and the editor of their bulletin [rotaryos.com]. Serrière is a five time Paul Harris Fellow.
Publications
New Neighbors[7], a booklet distributed widely to about one hundred service clubs of the Bay Area explaining why people with developmental disabilities can make good neighbors.
Emmanuel is also updating their website that can be viewed at www.gwenemmanuel.us [8] Personal Emmanuel is a very rude and manipulative person. He has a history of belittling those that worked for him. He also had a history of falsifying documents to get rid of employees that did not bow down to him. In addition, he has been known to submit fraudulant statements to keep former employees from collecting unemployment.
References
[1] SB 2093, introduced by Senator Roberti in 1978 under Serriere's recommendation requires that residential programs for 6 or fewer persons be treated and considered like any other family residence. Serriere's argument was based on equality treatment as compared to local Stanford Fraternity houses. [7]
[2] AB 1910, 2006. Until Serriere convinced Assembly member Greg Aghazarian to introduce this law, transport agencies, even with vans equiped with lifts for people with mobility challenges, couldn't obtain handicapped license plates. [8]