WARRINGAH DISABILITY NEWSLETTER No 258 - 24/06/11

Hello!

The newsletter starts with another disco, a theatre project, STAR expo, global games at INAS, and holiday activities in Lane Cove.  Young carers can disco bowl at Dee Why, attend the Aspect camp in October, or Camp Breakaway.  Carers are alerted to phone groups for male carers and carers of someone with mental health, Triple P, the brain injury get together and mental health support group.  There are also a session on starting school, SOCS for youth with Aspergers, two events to help high school leavers plan, and the opportunity to become a carers NSW carer representative.

Financial matters include a fundraising trivia night for Fighting Chance, carers Week grants, a reminder that Warringah Council grants end soon, and a website on scholarships.  Resources include a DVD on the August census, website for early literacy, National Diabetes week, a webpage on brain injury on ADHC website, websites for holiday fun, and a website for working with fathers.  You are invited to complete two surveys on support needs of people with physical disability, to hold a DisabiliTEA for the NDIS, volunteer for Recreation Rendezvous or Northern Beaches Interchange.

Workshops and conferences address manual handling, knowing your rights, suicide intervention, assistive technology in education, mental health, respite, group leadership, autism, dementia, plus the NSW summit on person centred approach, and a seminar on models of supported accommodation.  Various courses are also offered by Reconnect Mental Health, IFP and Northside Community Forum.

Your comments and suggestions are welcome, as always!  The next newsletter will be sent on 11 July.

Regards, Marjorie Janz, Disability Information Officer, Warringah Council.

Located at Dee Why Library, Pittwater Road and St Davids Avenue, Dee Why NSW 2099.

Phone 9942 2686, fax 9942 2371.  Also janzm@warringah.nsw.gov.au.