Everyone likes to have their voice heard, but not everyone is heard equally. Rainbow Rights is a self advocacy group for people with an intellectual disability and who happen to be LGBTIQ+. They’ve just recorded a song to let the world know that they have the same rights that everyone else does.
This resource is designed to provide an introduction to enabling risk. You will be introduced to the ways you can support people with cognitive disabilities, including people with intellectual disabilities and acquired brain injury, to make choices and be involved in activities that may involve some risk while minimising potential harm to themselves or others. There are many positives in supporting people with cognitive disabilities to participate in positive risk taking. Working from a risk enablement approach ensures that you provide empowering support that enables the people you support to live an engaged and meaningful life.
The survey collected information on a range of factors known to influence individual and community wellbeing including safety, mental wellbeing, physical activity, healthy eating and alcohol consumption. The results show inequities in health and wellbeing exist for Victorians with disability compared to those without disability, particularly in the areas of physical activity and mental health and wellbeing.
The DSC (Disability Services Commissioner) 2018 annual report and review of disability service provision to people who have died 2017–18 was tabled in Victorian Parliament on the 19/12/2018.
An new article in the International Journal of Law and Psychiatry explores how changes to Victorian legislation improving human rights have been limited by under-investment and policy failures across the mental health system.
A guide to outline when decision-making support, advocacy and substitute decision-making will be needed for potential and current NDIS participants who have significant cognitive disability.
This clearing house facilitate successful outcomes and improved educational experience for students with disability by providing information, advice and resources to disability practitioners, academics, teachers and students on inclusive practices within the post-secondary education sector.
In order to determine barriers different employers and businesses in Australia face to employing people with disability, The Department of Social Services (DSS) commissioned Kantar Public to undertake a program of research with employers.
The resources developed as part of this project provide practical consumer participation information, ideas and resources which can be used by service providers, governments and community organisations to ensure people with cognitive disabilities have a ‘voice at the table’ and participate equally at all organisational levels.
We’ve Got This: Parenting with a Disability is a new ABC radio series produced by Eliza Hull. Eliza has a neurological condition ‘Charcot Marie Tooth’, and she’s the ABC’s 2018 Regional Storyteller Scholarship recipient.
In this report the CSI draw together the international literature on effective quasi-market interventions for managing market failures and gaps.
This guideline aims to create greater consistency in diagnostic practices across the country to ensure individuals on the autism spectrum and their families can receive the optimal clinical care. The Guideline emphasises the importance of listening to individuals and their families about the impact of the behaviours on family life.
Positive Powerful Parents is a self advocacy group for parents with intellectual disability. Last month they hosted a parent meeting. 17 parents with intellectual disability from all over Victoria were in attendance, attached is a report from the day.
In this lecture Professor Tom Shakespeare – a leading disability expert in the UK and Europe, talks about how new models of social care can facilitate greater flexibility and freedom and empower people with disability, while also present new risks to workers, as support work becomes increasingly insecure.
This is a report on a series of consultation workshops with stakeholders to hear how NDIS participants with psychosocial disability, their carers and providers experience the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS).