Future Planning - Safeguarding the Good Life workshop (online) - Mon 8 and Tue 9 December

• 08 December 2025 09 December 2025
• 12:00pm - 02:30pm 12:00pm - 02:30pm
• Online via Zoom

Planning and safeguarding the future for your family member with disability

Do you want to plan for a long-term positive and secure future for a person with disability?

Perhaps the greatest fear expressed by families is the uncertainty about the future of their loved ones with disability when parents are no longer able to advocate and support them.

This 2-day online Zoom workshop will explore a range of strategies to plan for now and the future so that family members with disability have safeguards in place. Please note that this is a 2 part series running 12pm to 2.30pm AEDT on both days, and you will need to attend both sessions.

There is much that families can do now, so join us for this highly requested event to take the next steps.

Click here to register for this workshop if you:

• Are concerned about the future of your family members with disability
• Are interested in Legal safeguards such as Wills and Trusts
• Are looking for safeguarding strategies such as Circles of Support and Valued Roles
• Want to know what steps you can take now to safeguard the future.

The Speakers

Catherine Hogan - 

Catherine Hogan has both a sister and a son with intellectual disability, both of whom live in their own homes. Catherine and her extended family crafted and supported her sister's living arrangements, day to day supports (both paid and unpaid), that have enabled her to live in her own home for the past 10 years. Catherine’s sister has also had a Circle of Support for 12 years and holds many valued roles in her life.

Over her working life, Catherine has guided hundreds of families in their negotiation with the many 'systems' they encounter and continues to do so. Catherine now has her own consulting business in Sydney . 

Anne Cregan-

Anne is a partner in Gilbert + Tobin’s Pro Bono group. The pro bono practice has a particular focus on legal issues affecting Indigenous Australians, people with disabilities and refugees. Anne has extensive experience in assisting people who are disadvantaged and marginalised. 

Anne has acted in public interest and test case litigation in relation to judicial independence, discrimination, the capacity of people with cognitive impairment or mental illness to participate in proceedings affecting them, consumer law and imprisonment without conviction.

Anne has a particular interest on how the law affects people with cognitive impairment and/or mental illness and has presented and consulted widely on this.

Prior to joining Gilbert + Tobin Anne was global pro bono partner at a major law firm. She has spent her career in social justice, first as a lawyer with the Legal Aid Commission of NSW and in pro bono since 1999.

Who is this workshop for?

• Family members who support people with disability in their life
• People with disability, allies and supporters considering how to plan a long-term positive and secure future for a person with disability.

Cost

This event is free but registrations are essential.

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