These three-hour workshops will cover lots of different parts of the NDIS, including knowing who is eligible for the NDIS, working out what support you can get in your NDIS plan, to using the funds in your NDIS plan to live a better life in the community. Who is running the workshops? The workshop is … Continued
This one day event is designed to unpack the detail SDA (Specialist Disability Accommodation) providers need to plan and deliver successful SDA projects. Agenda: Current Status of the SDA Market SDA Data: Analysis & Implications for Providers SDA Framework Review Recommendations: Outcomes & Timeframes Market Observations from our DSC’s SDA Subject Matter Specialists Delivering SDA … Continued
Join psychologists Dr Michael Carr-Gregg and Dr Janine Manjinova, autistic self-advocate Chloe Hayden and Family Planning Victoria’s Vanessa Thomas at Amaze’s Raising Autistic Teenage Girls forum! This fantastic day of discussion and learning will cover a wide range of must-know topics, including: technology, building resilience, socialising, relationships and sexuality. If you’re an autistic teenage girl … Continued
National Conference covering two topics: Fixing Employment Services The employment services system requires major reform. See details in more information link below Suggestions for reform of the employment services system, its operations, processes and culture, are invited. Jobseekers, people with disabilities, families, friends, support organisations, community groups, services and policy makers are invited to contribute … Continued
Are you ready to learn more about being a board member? Leadership Victoria is offering two free programs for people who identify as having a disability: Benefits of the Board Seminar – An introductory 4 hour session for people with no board experience who want to know more about being on a board and learn … Continued
VACCHO’s Cultural Safety Training supports respectful and culturally safe engagement with Aboriginal people and communities. This training has been developed to support the Cultural Safety of Aboriginal people accessing disability services through the National Disability Insurance Scheme. Register via the contact details below.
This half-day workshop is designed to provide participants with: The evidence behind and the fundamental importance of applying Family-centred Strengths-based practices with families An overview of the principles and rationale of Family-centred and Strengths-based practices The knowledge and skills to confidently guide families through this practice The ability to recognise both the opportunities and challenges … Continued
A masterclass to promote understanding of sexuality and relationships in the lives of people with intellectual disability. It will showcase applied research and learning from leaders in the field alongside examples of best practice in service provision and support. Presentations and Speakers: Intellectual Disability, Reproductive Justice, and Sexual Ableism: Challenging assumptions about the appropriateness to … Continued
The Scope-University of Melbourne Partnership in collaboration with the University of Melbourne Archives is pleased to announce the launch of the Geoffrey Bell Collection, which documents the social and political history of the disability rights movement in Australia through the papers of Geoffrey Bell (1944-2008). Mr Bell, who lived with a high-level spinal cord injury … Continued