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Call Us: 1800 774 764
Call Us: 1800 774 764
Join our weekly online peer group sessions to connect with other families, share your questions and experiences and learn from each other.
We all deserve the Good things of Life - family, friends, connection to the community, a sense of belonging, opportunities to learn and develop, meaningful work, a place to call home, personal and financial security and the chance to follow dreams and passions.
Living that Good Life can require more intentional planning for people with disability, than it does for others.The Vision of this Peer Network is to support high expectations and provide the basis for strategies to enable people with disability to experience the Good Life, accessing the same opportunities as their peers. To support you in creating a vision statement, an experienced family leader, will help guide you as you develop your vision and begin putting it into practice.
Annette O’Sullivan has been associated with Family Advocacy for over 25 years. Her family’s vision for her son has kept them on the path of inclusion and provided a clear understanding of how to assist him to have a meaningful and valuable life. Anything that didn’t match the vision was an easy “No thanks”, for them.
Nathan attended mainstream school and now lives in a home of his own. These things wouldn’t have happened without a vision to provide focus.
Annette will share from her experience to provide guidance on how to develop a vision and begin putting it into practice.
Wednesdays, 12pm - 1:30pm AEST
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.
If you or a person with disability in your family is keen to live the Good Life, join this group, with other families who share this goal, to plan for it strategically.
Inclusion is being known as a multi-faceted person – more than “the person with a disability”. It means holding socially valued roles (such as choir member, neighbour or employee) 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.