Enhanced Consumer Participation Model (ECPM) manual(s)

Author

BC Rehab / Greater Vancouver Home Support Society

Published

January 1, 1990

Note1990 manual listed in a bibliography — copy sought; 1994 identity still unclear

A later bibliography confirms that a 1990 ECPM skill-development manual with five modules existed, but we have not found a copy to read. A possible 1994 training revision, named in jordanforge-infrastructure issue 10 and in later project notes as associated with Emma Van der Klift, was not found. Van der Klift’s 1994 publication that we have read is a different work (Hell-Bent on Helping). The evidence is not clear enough to decide whether the reported 1994 item is a distinct work — not a contradiction between two bibliographic records we have read.

Identification

Data table
Element Evidence
Title as cited independently “Enhanced Consumer Participation Model: Skill Development Manual for Consumers of Home Support Services” — Roeher Institute with Brian Salisbury
Creator as cited independently “BC Rehab & Greater Vancouver Home Support Society” (same bibliography)
Date as cited independently 1990 (same bibliography)
Physical description as cited independently “A training manual that includes 5 modules intended to empower consumers to act as effective employers (52 pages plus appendices)”
Later organizational attribution IFRC “Our Team” describes ECPM as “the individual funding project” that preceded CSIL, naming Joseph Theriault with Paul Gauthier. No manual title or date.
Pre-CSIL list in later slides Gauthier 2014 lists “ECPM Enhanced Consumer Participation Model” as a pre-CSIL step, without a citation.
1994 training revision Named in early project notes. Not found in Roeher, IFRC slides, Internet Archive, or Van der Klift’s public pages.
Emma Van der Klift / Vancouver Health Department Named in early project notes. The 1994 Van der Klift & Kunc chapter we have read does not mention ECPM or those agencies.
VCH “institutional survival” Current VCH CSIL service page does not use the ECPM name.

This record may still represent more than one publication. It is kept as a single wanted item until distinct editions can be identified.

What this pass actually inspected

Inspected: Roeher / Salisbury bibliography PDF; IFRC Our Team; Gauthier 2014 slides; Van der Klift & Kunc 1994 chapter (Broadreach republication); current VCH CSIL page; Internet Archive advanced search for the quoted phrase (zero items, 20 September 2026).

Not inspected: the 1990 manual; any 1994 revision; a library catalogue holding record.

Annotation

Public bibliographic evidence supports treating a 1990 Skill Development Manual (five modules; 52 pages plus appendices; BC Rehab & GVHSS) as a real, cited publication. The archive has not seen the text. Later IFRC pages treat ECPM as a named precursor project; that is later institutional history, not a formal predecessor declaration in a 1990s document from the time. The evidence is not clear enough to decide the 1990 versus 1994 date question. ECPM as a formal predecessor to CSIL remains an interpretation until a record from the time says so. See the ECPM chapter.

Open questions

  • How many manuals or editions exist.
  • Whether a 1994 item is a revision, a training manual, or a conflicting citation of the 1990 work.
  • Title-page authorship, including any role for Emma Van der Klift, GVHSS, or Vancouver Health Department.
  • Relationship to Keys on Freedom.
  • Whether any historical VCH / Vancouver Health Department file still uses the ECPM name.

See also