WARRINGAH DISABILITY NEWSLETTER No 259 - 12/07/11

NEWSLETTER COPY HERE

Hello!

The newsletter starts with a discobility, a music course, the Leisure booklet and a post school options transition forum.  Carers are reminded of the Triple P and other free parenting courses, the National Pain Week, and the booklet on services for children aged 0-6 with additional needs.

Financial matters include the Commonwealth Bank Community grant, Quantum’s Print Disability Scholarship Program and Seniors Grant, the education tax rebate for students, free Tax Help, and the position of manager at DARTS in Chatswood.  Resources include booklets on substitute consent, disability support pension, the first World Disability Report, free ebooks at Project Gutenberg, various legal services and assistance, podcasts on equipment for vision impaired people, and the Thing before you Park campaign by Guide Dogs.  You are invited to complete two surveys (this disability newsletter, and employing a person with a disability), have your say on Collaroy accessibility and the medical facilities in the Lower North Shore, nominate people for the NSW Carers awards and the National Disability awards, and undertake the novel Cerebral Palsy Challenge 2011.  There is also an update on action for the NDIS.

Workshops and conferences address self directed funding, understanding others’ needs, rethinking risk, creating inclusive lives, planning for future care needs, facilitating groups, language development.  There are also conferences:  Sydney CAREX, and the NSW / ACT ASID, as well as courses offered by Relationships Australia and TRI IT.

Your comments and suggestions are welcome, as always!  The next newsletter will be sent on 22 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.