Peer Network: NDIS Self Management for Inclusion - 31 January to 26 June 27

• 31 January 2024 26 June 2024
• 01:00pm - 02:30pm 01:00pm - 02:30pm
• Online via Zoom

Join our monthly online peer group sessions to connect with other families, share your questions and experiences and learn from each other.

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The Network's Vision

Ensure genuine inclusion of people with disability through lived and valued experience actively participating, belonging, and contributing to their community.

The Facilitator

Jo Cross has several years’ experience supporting her daughter Rachael to self-manage her NDIS plan. Rachael is 27 years old, and is living a full, rich and meaningful life. She holds many valued roles and thrives within her local community.

Through self-management, Rachael and Jo have been able to prepare for NDIS reassessments, manage support staff and ultimately use funding to build a more fulfilling life for Rachael as a valuable member of her community.

Dates and Topics:

All sessions will be held online via Zoom, Wednesdays 1-2.30pm (AEDT Jan-March, AEST May-June)

• 31 January - Working with providers and services
• 28 February - Moving from therapy to wellbeing
• 27 March - Managing and engaging support staff
• 1 May - Preparing for NDIS Reassessments/Variations
• 29 May- Record keeping
• 26 June - Using funding creatively for a good life

What’s a Peer Network?

A Peer is someone with similar experience to you. A Peer Network is a connected group of peers.

Our peer network is a group of both family members of people with disability and people with disability who are working towards a common vision; sharing their questions, ideas and experiences with one another along the way. A peer network is not a seminar. It’s a group that works when everyone contributes. The facilitator is there to help the group stay on track, not to provide all the answers.

 

 

Why join this Peer Network?

• Self management gives you the most say about who provides the NDIS funded supports you need and how they do it.
• Learn how to use the funding to support your family member’s / your participation as a welcome and appreciated member of your community whose contributions are recognised as worthwhile.
• Learn how to use self management to enable the person with disability to have more of the life they want not just to get what they need.

What is Inclusion?

Inclusion is being known as a multi-faceted person – more than “the person with a disability”. It means holding socially valued roles that provide a sense of purpose and a place of belonging in the community with meaningful and reciprocal relationships, being trusted and valued and having access to good formal and informal supports.

Whether you're a family member or a person with disability, just starting with self management or a bit more experienced with it, join us to discuss and share self managing approaches with other families and self managers.

More info:

• This group is for family members of people with disability and people with disability.
• Peer Networks are free to attend.
• You can come to all of the sessions or just some.
• Members receive an email reminder and Zoom link before each session,
• We don’t record peer group discussions. The only way to take part is via live attendance.
• We ask everyone to abide by the Code of Conduct and Rules of Engagement.      

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