Chrissie’s Peer Story
The Making of SQuAD
The Sydney Queer and Disability Community Group
The Australian Self-Advocacy Website
Voices Together is an online resource for self advocacy groups, the government and community to connect, work together and share information and knowledge.
New ILC (Information, Linkages and Capacity Building) Strategy
The NDIA has released the ‘Strengthening ILC: A national strategy towards 2022 (the strategy)’, which outlines four programs that will be progressively implemented from July 2019.
New NDIS participant booklets
The NDIA has released three new participant booklets available on the NDIS website.
Team Up – Peer Support Works
This is is final report for Team Up's evaluation of the Peers Creating Change project.
Brisbane Hot Topics Digital story project
Brisbane Hot Topics Local Support Group met recently to begin an exciting new digital story project to learn how to make a digital story. We are planning to make stories that demonstrate the positive contribution and influence people with intellectual disability have.
Latest round of ILC grants announced
More than $28.5 million over two years has been allocated to deliver 104 ILC Jurisdictional Based grants (Round 2) in NSW, SA and ACT. Fifty-five activities will be delivered in NSW, 32 in SA and 17 in ACT. The recipients of the ILC Jurisdictional Based Grants for each jurisdiction can be found here Just over $28. million over two years has been allocated to deliver 43 ILC National Readiness (Round 2) activities across Australia. Activities funded through this grant round align with the ILC Activity Area One – Information, linkages and referrals. You can read about them here
You + Me = Community
The You+Me=Community is a community festival initiated by the Huon Disability Network, a peer network, which is part of the Tasmanian DSO Speak Out consortium. After over a year of collaborative planning with Baptcare and the Huon Valley Council, the inaugural festival was held on Sunday 4 March in Huonville. The main goals of the festival were to Have fun! Create opportunities for people with a disability to make community connections Raise awareness with the broader community about people living with disability and their rights to be a part of community life: to have a place to belong Raise awareness about the National Disability Insurance Scheme The Local Area Coordinators provide information about NDIS and all services available in the local area. There were many activities and highlights of the festival included: Choir of High Hopes workshop and performance, Ardvaak Adventures wheelchair compatible giant swing, Silent Disco and 8 disability support services hosting activities such as [...]
Stand By Me – Peer Power in action
Stand by Me was a campaign run by the NSW Disability Advocacy Alliance that empower people with a disability to have a voice.