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.
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.
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.
VALID – Clayton Peer Action Group
The local VALiD Clayton Peer Action Group has named Showbiz Cinemas as Ballarat’s most accessible venue. The Everard and Mattson Memorial Award was presented in December last year by Buninyong MP Geoff Howard as an acknowledgement of the cinema’s effort to make their venue wholly accessible for those living with disability.
ACD – Team Up Peer Network Grant
The Korean Cockatoos Disability & Carers Association Inc is a community group for Korean families with children who have been diagnosed with Autism and other developmental disorders. It has been running for more than 10 years and has grown to more than 50 families.
Self-Advocacy – Our Voice, Express Yourself and SACID
Peer led self advocacy groups Our Voice, Express Yourself and SACID had plenty to say, last week, about the development of a new website for people living with intellectual disability.
Tasmanian Parent and Carer Community Leaders
ACD has been developing a grass roots Community Leaders program with Tasmanian parent and carer leaders and Peer Support Networks.
VALID – Fantastic Flicks
In November last year, the VALiD Banyule Peer Action Group presented Fantastic Flicks, a screening of films made by and about people living with disability.