Popular culture has recently seen the emergence of the so-called comical wine mom persona, particularly on social media sites such as Instagram. Given the increasing use of alcohol amongst women and the emergence of alcohol as a tool for women and mothers to assert agency and gender equity, a critical analysis of wine mom culture warrants attention. Forty Instagram posts associated with the #winemom hashtag were selected using theoretical sampling and analysed using reflexive thematic analysis. The central objective was to use a postfeminist lens to critically explore how wine mom culture is part of the consumption, (re)production and (re)configuration of the ideologies of ‘good’ and ‘bad’ motherhood occurring in online gendered spaces. The findings demonstrated the ubiquity of wine mom culture and its contribution to normalized images and meanings of ‘liberated motherhood’ that may have problematic sociocultural and health implications related to women’s alcohol consumption.

Common Ground Co-operative (CGC) provides training, administrative, and job coach support to five social enterprises for which persons with developmental disabilities are the non-share-capital partners. This study examines the use of social return on investment (SROI) as a means of determining the value of program impacts related to quality-of-life changes for enterprise partners and their families. The process of conducting this SROI analysis is described and analyzed in terms of its utility in employment services for persons with developmental disabilities. Keywords: social enterprise, social return on investment, case study, research, disabilities PERSONS WITH DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES INCLUDE THOSE WHO HAVECOGNITIVE and/or physical disabilities that are evident before the age of twenty-two and tend to be lifelong (American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities 2013). Common Ground Co-operative (CGC), the organization that is the focus of this article, serves persons with developmental disabilities, most of whom could be identifi ed as having an intellectual disability that includes limitations in both cognitive abilities and adaptive behavior that are present before the age of eighteen (American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities 2013). Historically, persons with intellectual and developmental disabilities have experienced abuse, social exclusion, and rights restrictions, including limited access to education, involuntary institutionalization, and Th e authors thank Common Ground Co-operative staff , partners, and their family members who so generously contributed to this study. We also express our sincere gratitude to Dr. Fayez Elayan, Department of Accounting, Brock University, for his consultation on this project, and Drs. Jack Quarter and Sherida Ryan, University of Toronto, for their patient leadership and skillful instruction throughout this research. Th is research was funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. (Scheerenberger 1983;Sobsey 1994). Even their very right to life has been questioned (Watson and Griffi ths 2009;Watson, Stainton, and Sobsey 2012). However, during the past century and a half there have been dramatic shifts in scientifi c awareness, theoretical conceptualization, legal protections, and service confi gurations from a focus on the protection of society from persons with developmental disabilities to a commitment to the protection of their rights and promotion of their self-advocacy and inclusion in the community (Owen et al. 2009). Although gains have been made in many jurisdictions, especially in deinstitutionalization and community living, the area of employment remains challenging for both theoretical and practical reasons. Nonprofi t Management & LeadershipTh is article examines the social return on investment (SROI) of an innovative employment model for persons with developmental disabilities, a group that has among the lowest rates of employment in Canada (Statistics Canada 2006;Turcotte 2014). Soc...

People with intellectual and developmental disabilities (henceforth referred to as developmental disabilities) in both the criminal jus

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Background There is little research with people who experience intellectual/developmental disabilities and imprisonment. Methods The study linked health and correctional data to examine prevalence of intellectual/developmental disabilities and health and correctional characteristics among adults experiencing their first federal incarceration between 1 January 2002 and 31 December 2011 (n = 9278) and two non‐incarcerated groups (n = 10,086,802). Results The prevalence of intellectual/developmental disabilities was 2.1% in the incarcerated group and 0.9% in the non‐incarcerated group. Before incarceration, those with, versus without, intellectual/developmental disabilities were at greater risk of traumatic brain injury, mental illness, and substance use disorders. While incarcerated, those with intellectual/developmental disabilities were more likely to incur serious institutional disciplinary charges. Post‐incarceration, persons with intellectual/developmental disabilities were at greater risk of emergency department visits, and psychiatric and acute hospitalizations, than the non‐incarcerated groups. Conclusions People with intellectual/developmental disabilities are overrepresented in Canadian federal correctional institutions. The authors offer strategies to support people prior to, during, and post‐incarceration.