NDCO Newsletter Winter 2019
Welcome to the winter edition of the NDCO program newsletter for region 14 Southern Melbourne. If you would like information about special projects, networks and professional development opportunities in relation to education & employment for people with disability please contact the NDCO program.
Sally Bailey, National Disability Coordination Officer T (03) 9784 0400 M 0439 897 027
E sally.bailey@skillsplus.com.au W www.ndcovictoria.net.au
The Southern Region NDCO Education and Employment Pathways Guide is now available from the following link http://www.ndcovictoria.net.au/region-14#directories
NDCO National Strategic Plan
In June 2019, the 31 National Disability Coordination Officers met in Canberra to work together on the new NDCO Program National Strategic Plan to June 2022. The program vision is to ‘drive change so that people with disability have equitable opportunity to access, participate and achieve their goals in tertiary education and subsequent employment’. Further details of initiatives will be available in the coming weeks. In the meantime I am excited to share the four priority areas.
Strategic Priority One - Identify Gaps and Barriers
Strategic Priority Two - Practice Informed Policy
Strategic Priority Three- Escalate and Advocate
Strategic Priority Four - Enable High Performance
NDCO’s are currently busy mapping activities to our new strengthened strategic direction. I look forward to solutions based conversations with our stakeholders that progress the program vision in the coming months. Have a great term and stay warm everyone.
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Network meeting dates
Bayside Disability Education and Employment Network – 15 August 2019
Peninsula Pathways for Students with Disability – 28 August 2019
South Eastern Disability Inclusion Network – 11 September 2019
Research and Policy
Strengthening Skills - Expert Review of Australia’s Vocational Education and Training System
On 28 November 2018, the Prime Minister announced an independent review of Australia’s vocational education and training (VET) sector to examine ways to deliver skilled workers for a stronger economy. The review was led by the Honourable Steven Joyce, a former New Zealand Minister for Tertiary Education, Skills and Employment. Mr Joyce delivered the final report to the Government in March 2019.
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Reforming VET by understanding young people’s experience
TAFEs are well placed to serve as a vital anchor in the vocational education and training sector to provide career guidance, relevant curriculum and industry exposure, and other necessary support for young people.
The Vic Govt Royal Commission into Mental Health Services - Easy English Documents
The Vic Govt Royal Commission into Mental Health Services Easy English documents are now available.
How to make a Submission
Consultation Report
About the Royal Commission (Letters Patent)
Terms of Reference
These documents were developed by Access Easy English.
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Professional Development
Access Easy English Learn Easy English 2 day writing course
Time: 9.15am – 4.30pm
Date: Thursday 28 and Friday 29 November 2019
Venue: Centre for Excellence in Child and Family Welfare Level 5, 50 Market St Melbourne
Cost: $650 + gst Morning tea and light lunch provided
Registration: https://www.trybooking.com/517210
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Introduction to Customised Employment Techniques Training
Date: Thursday 29 August 2019 – Friday 30 August 2019
Venue: NDS Level 3, 369 Royal Parade, Parkville VIC
Registration: https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/introduction-to-customised-employment-techniques-tickets-65767084119
NDS is hosting a two-day specialised training program that will develop the knowledge, tools and resources necessary for your team to support people with significant disability who want to work.
Who should attend?
- Disability Employment Services (DES) managers and staff - to ensure they have the skills to create outcomes for this new client group of participants with more complex disability
- NDIS providers wanting to support people with disability into work, including School Leaver Employment Supports (SLES) providers
- NDIS planners and NDIA staff
- Australian Disability Enterprise providers wanting to develop pathways for their clients
- Schools and career counsellors
- Ticket to Work members
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The Australasian Society for Intellectual Disability (ASID)
Date: Tuesday 5 November 2019 to Friday 8 November
Venue: Hilton Adelaide, 233 Victoria Square, Adelaide SA
ASID is offering scholarships to people with an intellectual disability who require financial assistance to attend the 2019 ASID Conference in Adelaide.
To be eligible for a scholarship you must:
• Identify as having an intellectual disability
• Live in Australia or New Zealand
• Need support to pay for accommodation and/or travel for either yourself or your support person/family carer to attend the conference.
For more information and to apply for a scholarship, visit the conference website.
The Scholarship Application form is to be completed and returned to the ASID Secretariat by Friday 23 August 2019.
It is important to note that the maximum scholarship amounts may not be able to cover all your expenses to attend the conference. If you receive a scholarship you will be required to pay for the outstanding amount.
For further details go to http://www.asidconference.com.au/scholarships
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ITEC19 Tertiary Education Conference
Date: 21 - 23 August 2019
Venue: Marriott Resort Surfers Paradise
Registration: www.itec19.com.au
The ITEC19 Tertiary Education Conference, organised by the Independent Tertiary
Education Council Australia (ITECA), in conjunction with the Asia Pacific International Education Forum is a chance to gain unique insights into the international education sector. ITEC19 will introduce you to the leaders and issues that are driving change in the independent tertiary education system. Providers in higher education, vocational education and training will learn more about the current landscape and the reforms that will impact them.
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2019 Inclusive Education Summit
Date: Friday 25 October to Sunday 27 October 2019
Venue: Venue: Kohia Centre, Faculty of Education and Social Work, University of Auckland. The Kohia Centre is located on the Epsom Campus (Gate 1, 78 Epsom Ave), Auckland.
Resigstration details: https://www.auckland.ac.nz/en/education/learning-alumni-community/professional-learning/kohia/workshops-and-courses/the-inclusive-education-summit-2019.html
The 2019 Inclusive Education Summit invites us to meet, work and think together: People from marginalised groups, their families and whānau, allies and accomplices, researchers, students, educators and educational leaders, advocacy organisations. Our aim is to consider how education systems can be part of a much wider agenda - the building of inclusive societies. “It’s about all of us” is a call to action.
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Effective school to work transition webinar: Learnings from Ticket to Work
Date: 25 July 2019
Time: 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Please join us in this webinar, as we explore a recent independent evaluation we commissioned, that looked at whether connecting a student with disability with the ‘world of work’ before they leave school, using a network approach, creates better economic and social outcomes post-school
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Introduction to Customised Employment
Date: 6 August 2019
Time: 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Registration: https://www.nds.org.au/events-and-training/all-events-and-training/introduction-to-customised-employment-webinar-3378
Through the NDIS people with disability are increasingly seeking transition to work supports. Join us in this webinar to gain knowledge and an overview of tools and resources to support people who want to work and achieve suitable, sustainable and meaningful employment using a Customised Employment approach.
This webinar will:
• Provide an overview of the Customised Employment approach and its process
• Acquiring the necessary NDIS funding for Customised Employment
• Broaden thinking around meaningful employment for people with disabilities
• Question and Answer session
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Ready Set Connect
Time: 10:00am - 12:30pm
Date: Wednesday 31 July 2019
Venue: Functions by the Bay, Cnr Plowman Place & Young St, Frankston VIC 3199
Cost: free to attendees
Registration: https://www.onecommunity.net.au
These events are fun and interactive and provide a platform for:
Service providers to promote their service and/or product, connect to new business
and collaborate with other providers (Table Hosts)
Support Coordinators, Case Managers, LACs, Linkers, Teachers, Carers to build their
local knowledge of services and to identify direct contacts for referrals (Event Attendees)
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Resources
Webinar: Collaboration for improved career development decisions for students with mental health conditions
In this webinar, Julie Rogan from the Disabilities Service Team at Griffith University discusses the importance of collaboration between Disabilities Services and staff from career services and other support staff in a secondary or tertiary environment. In these days of poor retention rates across the board and certainly, for students with a disability, including mental health and then the difficulty people with a disability have gaining employment improved career decisions are essential.
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Article
Pyschosocial Recovery Supports – Mental Health and the NDIS
by Mark Cottee NDCO
Last Friday (7 June 2019) I attended a 'Partners in Recovery' celebration event in Wodonga thanks to Murray PHN. As an advocate of this model I attended very much interested in where mental health servicing is heading in the context of the NDIS with that particular program coming to an end.
In short, there are three things worth considering:
(1) The introduction of the 'Partners in Recovery' project was a game changer for a lot of service providers and their clients, working under a 'multiple supports' model with services designed around three key principles; strengths based, person centred, with a focus on building capacity. Whatever happens moving forward these key principles of support will continue to be delivered through a collaborative and responsive local network of providers.
(2) For those individuals eligible for NDIS and engaged as a participant, they will be serviced via the NDIS regime. In a lot of instances there will be a focus on continuing services and minimising disruption for clients and the services they receive. For an in-depth overview of this process please refer to the NDIS web information:https://www.ndis.gov.au/understanding/how-ndis-works/mental-health-and-ndis
(3) For those individuals not eligible for NDIS the main support option being offered is called - National Psychosocial Supports or NPS. "The NPS will support a range of non-clinical approaches to the build functional capacity of people with severe mental illness at the individual level to help enable personal recovery. The services are designed to help people for whom clinical care is insufficient to help them build capacity for daily living and who would benefit from specialised psychosocial support at certain times."
Further - my understanding is that the rollout of the NPS will be managed via the state governments. Refer to the Department of Health's 'The National Psychosocial Support Measure' web page for more information.
From a more local point of view and considering the state involvement with the rollout there will be local service options being offered for non NDIS eligible clients funded via the state government funds. These programs will be administered by local Mental Health services in your district.
Big thanks to the organisers and hosts of this event and I look forward to bringing you further updates as they develop in this space ... be well.
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