The author highlights the role of values in determining agency policy by analyzing an agency's policy on sexual behavior of persons with cognitive disabilities in group homes. The value orientations of the social work staff, parents, Jewish community, and state government are compared. The conflicting values placed the agency in a quandary from which it extricated itself by resorting to a policy compromise.
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