Resourcing Families event - Creating Inclusive Lives - the Canadian Experience

Resourcing Families is a new initiative of Family Advocacy.  Information and resources can be found onwww.resourcingfamilies.org.au

Resourcing Families presents Creating Inclusive Lives – the Canadian Experience.  This workshop is for families, friends and professionals interested in creating rich inclusive lives for people with developmental disability.

Resourcing Families would like to inform you about the opportunity to attend an exciting workshop on 18 August.  The workshop gives you the opportunity to:

·         learn from many years of experience in self directed funding in Canada

·         hear about strategies to build inclusive communities

·         explore opportunities for post school life

·         understand the value and importance of a vision in creating a rich life

This one day workshop includes presentations by family members and professionals who have a long history of supporting inclusion and self directed funding in Canada.  It is a wonderful opportunity to learn directly from a large group of people who have experienced many years of self-directed funding in Canada, and will be particularly helpful as the NSW government has committed to making self-directed funding an options for all support by 1 July 2014.

Please see the attached flier for more information and for details of cost and registration.

It would be great if you could let families and professionals who may be interested know about the workshop.

Please do not hesitate to contact Resourcing Families for more information on (02) 9869 0866 or 1800 620 588 or by email toinfo@resourcingfamilies.org.au.

Regards

Emma Baxter & Kim Roots

-------------------- PO Box 502 Epping NSW 1710 --------------------

Suite 305 16-18 Cambridge St Epping 2121

ph: 02 9869 0866  Freecall: 1800 620 588  Fax: 02 9869 0722

e-mail: info@resourcingfamilies.org.au

web: www.resourcingfamilies.org.au

ADHC Person Centred Approaches Consultations across NSW

Consultations with people with a disability, their families and carers, as well as workshops with service providers will be held from 1 August to 2 September 2011 at a range of locations around the state.

Phone and online registrations open 18 July 2011 - see attached news sheet.

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.

Auxiliary Meeting 4 June 2011

The Minutes of Sunnyfield Auxiliary meeting held on 4th June, 2011 are attached.  

 

Also attached is a copy of letter that was received by Frank Renwick from Tony Abbott (referred to in the Minutes) re the Liberal Party’s endorsement of the National Disability Insurance Scheme.  

In addition, we also attach John Connell’s (Sunnyfield Chairman) reply to the query from the Auxiliary Committee re bonuses paid to senior staff under previous management.

 

The next Sunnyfield Auxiliary Meeting is scheduled for 6th August, 2011 at Sunnyfield Canteen at 2.00pm – hope to see you there.

 

Regards

Clare Stewart & Robyn Chapman

NDIS Video: 3 easy steps to meet your MP

Next week Federal MP's begin their five-week winter break from Canberra and will be at home in their electorates.

We need your help to visit every single Federal MP and ask them to support the National Disability Insurance Scheme.


If you've never spoken to your Federal MP before, it's easy.
David Pearce, a campaigner from Tasmania can show you how.
David visited his Federal MP Andrew Wilkie, and we filmed him every step of the way.

Andrew Wilkie MP, 'I Count'. Watch the video and read the transcript.


Step One: Contact your Federal MP's electorate office and make an appointment.
Use our tool to find your MP.

Step Two: Meet your MP.
At your meeting there are six ways your Federal MP can show support for the NDIS. Read our guide to talking to MPs here.

Step Three: Let us know how the meeting went.

You can see our gallery of which MP’s have said 'Count Me In'.
MP's are our voice in Parliament, but they can only represent us if they know our concerns.
It's up to us to tell them.

John Della Bosca
and the Every Australian Counts team www.everyaustraliancounts.com.au
PS: You can also ask your MP to join you at a DisabiliTea on Tuesday 2 August. Don't forget to register to receive your kit.
Over 400 people have registered and we're expecting thousands of people to join us for tea to raise awareness of the NDIS on Tuesday 2 August.

In Control flier to hlep peple prepare for ADHC consultations

Dear In Control Friends in NSW,

As many of you are aware the NSW Government is about to begin over 100 state-wide consultations on person centred approaches. This is a great chance for you to further debate, discuss and progress the introduction of self-directed supports in NSW.

NSW In Control Members have prepared the attached  paper, which we hope you find thought provoking as you prepare to have your say at these important consultations.

We are asking people to consider:

·         What it takes to get personal and get a life?

·         What a person centred approach means to you?

·         What you will really need to make this happen?

This is definitely a time for people’s voices to be heard about self-directed supports – so please raise your voice.

To find out more about the consultations click here http://www.adhc.nsw.gov.au/events

While you are online don’t forget to check out In Control on Facebook:

http://www.facebook.com/pages/In-Control-Australia/220836904608548

Kind Regards, 

Belinda Epstein-Frisch

On behalf of In Control NSW

E: admin@incontrol.org.au

W: www.incontrol.org.au

NDS News Update - NDIS Campaign Grows Louder

NDIS Campaign Grows Louder

Later this week radio advertisements promoting the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) will commence across Australia. National radio networks including Macquarie Radio and DMG (which includes Nova and Classic Rock) will broadcast three community service ads in rotation. A key theme will contrast the right to medical treatment in Australia with the absence of a similar right to disability support.


The 'Every Australian Counts' Campaign has also secured an in-principle commitment from a major television network to run free advertisements.


The Campaign is attracting endorsements from diverse sources.


Recently, the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference voiced its support. "One of the hoped outcomes of the proposed NDIS will be to promote, protect and ensure the full and equal enjoyment of human rights and fundamental freedoms for all people with disability, and to promote respect for their inherent dignity," the Catholic Bishops said.


In late June the Liberal Party's Federal Council passed a resolution moved by Shadow Minister Mitch Fifield, recognising that "the current system of support for Australians with a disability is broken," looking forward to the Productivity Commission's Draft Report on Disability Care and Support and calling for "a system of disability support, based on need, with the individual or their family in charge and able to choose the provider of their services."


The President of the powerful CFMEU, Tony Maher, has called the NDIS the 'light on the hill' needed in social policy: "As we live through the unprecedented resources boom, now is the right time to make big, transformational social policy decisions ... By the end of the year the government needs to respond to the recommendations of the Productivity Commission. It's time to lift our level of ambition. It's time we improved society. It's time for a National Disability Insurance Scheme."


In her speech last week to the Economic and Social Outlook Conference in Melbourne, Federal Minister Jenny Macklin focussed on the need for disability reform: "A National Disability Insurance Scheme would be a fundamental change to the way that people with disability receive support. We will need to seriously consider the [Productivity] Commission's final recommendations and the implications for current services and arrangements in close consultation with state and territory governments, service providers, employers and of course people with disabilities and their families and carers. And any change must be economically sustainable. As with all changes of this scale and impact, this work is complex. Reform is necessary."


The 'Every Australian Counts' Campaign is inspiring a wide range of activities: 416 organisations and individuals (so far), including NDS members, have registered to run DisabiliTEA events on 2 August. At least 12,000 people (including MPs) are expected to attend. This will help draw attention to the delivery of the Productivity Commission's final report on Disability Care and Support to the Federal Government. To register and get more information, go to http://everyaustraliancounts.com.au/disabilitea/

Last week NDS spoke on the NDIS at an international conference at the University of Sydney and this week will participate in a roundtable discussion on the NDIS at a University of NSW conference.