The newsletter starts with free movie tickets for disadvantaged kids and their carers, several Christmas parties, the Sculpture by the Sea, kids sports club, boccia finals and midnight basketball. Programs for carers include parenting workshops, carer support groups, a handbook for carers, a workshop on self managed funding, another on anti-bullying, and Siblings Australia.
Financial issues include information about electricity and gas prices and savings, funding from St George Foundation and Sidney Myer Fund, information about Disability Trusts, and Individual Funding approaches. Resources include health fact sheets, travelling overseas with medicine, tools for person centred review, support for apprentices with learning disability, anxiety self help groups, several meetings for CALD carers, an ultra light wheelchair. Note that all sections of the Department of Human Services will change their email address in the next few weeks. Your participation is invited in the International Day of People with Disability, Supported Employment, Supported Living Fund campaign, Australia
Workshops and meetings empowerment, learning, depression and anxiety, volunteering, parenting education, suicide intervention skills, adolescent mental health, dementia, law, board development, computer assistive technology, inclusive church practices. There are also conferences on leadership, strength and assets, as well as AGMs of Northside Enterprise and the centre for Disability Studies. Note that it is Post Polio Awareness Week.
Your comments and suggestions are welcome, as always! The next newsletter will appear on Friday 19 November.
Regards, Marjorie Janz
Located at Dee Why Library, Pittwater Road St Davids Avenue
Phone 9942 2686, fax 9942 2371. Also janzm@warringah.nsw.gov.au.
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