WARRINGAH DISABILITY NEWSLETTER No 265 - 29/09/11

Hello!

 The newsletter starts with two discobilities, a sports expo, creative arts festival, art exhibition, Christmas camp and Teddy Bears’ Picnic.  Parents and carers can attend a parenting program, attend activities at support groups, several Carers Week lunches, talk about accommodation.  There are also information sessions and vacancies for people from diverse cultural backgrounds, a media course for youth with Aspergers, opportunity for siblings to have a Big Sister, and also literacy training.  The NSW Ombudsman wants to hear from carers of people with mental illness.

Resources include youth and family counselling, a Lifetracker device, and new sign language videos about workplace rights.  Financial matters include several fundraising events (cancer walk, buddy walk) and a talk on saving on electricity costs.  Subsidised lawn mowing also exists.  There are job possibilities for a summer traineeships and an individualised service person.  The TAFE course dates and fee exemptions are also given.  You are invited to provide feedback on ADHC’s lifestyle planning policy, and to support Social Inclusion Week.

Workshops and courses address setting up support groups, physical and mental health, dementia, visiting a psychiatrist, learning to use computers well negotiation, assisting vision impaired students, the MDS HADS program, engaging adolescents, developmental challenges in the teens, and empowering parents.  There is a Rotary project for assist people with brittle bone syndrome overseas.  Annual general meetings occur for three organisations, and an online Masters degree is available.

Your comments and suggestions are welcome, as always!  The next newsletter will be sent on 13 October.

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.