The NDIS and You – for mental health consumers
This animated YouTube 6-part series provides bite size chunks of the NDIS process for consumers with mental health conditions.
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VCOSS Governance Healthcheck
This free online tool has been developed to asses your organisation’s governance, fine-tuning already great organisations. The Governance Healthcheck looks at board structures and policies, and financial structures, including financial oversight and controls. Board/committee members answer a series of questions, either as an individual or as part of a group. The Healthcheck then generates tailored tips and recommendations to improve organisational governance.
Reasonable and Necessary: Making Sense of the NDIS Series 2
In this second series, Dr George talks about different topics including self management of your NDIS Plan, support coordination and the relationship between the health system and the NDIS. The podcasts are about simplifying the NDIS and helping participants, their families and anyone else involved in supporting NDIS participants to be able to work their way through a new and complicated process.
Recognising Restrictive Practices
This resource is a set of short films and accompanying guide that explore the use of restrictive practices and encourage disability support workers and supervisors to reflect on and talk about less restrictive ways of supporting people with disability. It was developed by National Disability Services, by the Victorian Government and developed with support from the Victorian Office of Professional Practice.
Our Right to Safety and Respect
The resource aims to provide women with disabilities information about how to identify violence and abuse and how to get help to feel safe. The resource was made for and with women with disabilities and includes a video and video guide.
Toolkit for teachers providing an inclusive education to students with communication support needs
The Teachers’ Toolkit aims to help teachers feel more confident to engage and support their students with little or no speech, by equipping them with the latest information and practical step-by-step recommendations. Designed for busy teachers, the toolkit is intuitive with easy-to-navigate topics and interactive checklists that summarise key points.
Survey Results: Education Experiences of Children and Young People with Disabilities in Australia
Children and Young People with Disability Australia (CYDA) conducts a national survey each year on the educational experiences of students with disability in Australia. It focuses on the direct experience of students with disability. The most recent survey results again highlight that the present education system if failing to adequately meet the needs of students … Continued
Just Invisible: Medical access issues for homebound/bedridden persons
People who are homebound and/or bedridden have extensive and systemic problems with accessing the medical healthcare system, including access to General Practitioners, medical professionals, hospital systems and allied health. If you don’t turn up you are assumed not to need or want the service. This extensive report details many of the problems faced by homebound/bedridden … Continued
Side by Side
This guide contains step-by-step instructions, an easy English fact sheet, and the forms to appoint a medical support person and supportive attorney. The information and forms in this edition have been updated to take into account the implementation of the Medical Treatment Planning and Decisions Act 2016 which came into effect on 12 March 2018.
The Prevalence of Acquired Brain Injury among Victims and Perpetrators of Family Violence
This is the first evidence-based study of acquired brain injury and family violence in Australia., Completed in five months from July to December 2017, this research project identifies a strong association between brain injury and family violence, and significant gaps in service responses, ranging from lack of screening for brain injury through to inadequate opportunities for effective rehabilitation, recovery and support.
NDIS Evaluation Consolidated Report
This report contains findings based on all data collections undertaken over the course of the evaluation, including surveys and interviews with NDIS participants, their families and carers, disability support providers, and other stakeholders. The NDIS was found to work best for participants and families who could “strongly advocate for themselves”, and left people with intellectual and psychosocial disabilities as well as older carers with health issues, at a disadvantage.
Reforms to Human Services Inquiry report
The Commission has made recommendations on how to apply increased competition, contestability and informed user choice to the human services that were identified in the first stage study report to improve outcomes for users, and the community as a whole.
accountABILITY Toolkit: Using U.N. Human Rights Mechanisms to Advance the Rights of Women and Girls with Disabilities
This toolkit seeks to empower women with disabilities and organisations working on their behalf, to make use of available U.N. human rights mechanisms. Bringing the voices and experiences of women and girls with disabilities to the U.N. human rights system is essential to hold States accountable for their human rights obligations and to advance the … Continued
Reasonable and Necessary podcast series
This series of 5 podcasts aims to make sense of the NDIS. Join Dr George and his invited guests to discuss a range of topics covering all things NDIS including how the Act works, planning, housing under the NDIS, appeals and implementation.
‘I needed help, instead I was punished’: Abuse and Neglect of Prisoners with Disabilities in Australia
People with disabilities, particularly a cognitive or psychosocial disability, are overrepresented in the criminal justice system in Australia—comprising around 18 percent of the country’s population, but almost 50 percent of people entering prison.