Want to Learn about how NDIS supports students get ready for employment? This session will provide information on NDIS, how to sign up, how to get started, and the programs and support which improves outcomes for young people with disabilities, for example: Employment Goals: As part of the NDIS [...]
Capacity Building - Improved Learning This support category is for provision of skills training, advice, assistance with arrangements and orientation to assist a participant moving from school to further education. Transition through School and to Further Education This support item is for the provision of skills training, advice, assistance [...]
Where to from here? 21-22 July | 10.30am - 2.30pm AEST WTFH is for everyone in the disability sector who wants to unpack what we’ve been through and gain a stronger sense of where it's all going. WTFH is designed to facilitate learnings that apply to your role, to [...]
A session for young people in Years 10-12 and their families The National Disability Insurance Agency (NDIA) and the Department of Education and Training (DET), Victoria would like parents/carers of young Victorians with a disability in Years 10-12 to attend a virtual information session. This is a session for [...]
Ready-Set-Connect Our popular disability networking event Ready-Set-Connect is coming to Frankston. And we’re inviting you to join us, as an attendee, to network with your local NDIS community! Ready-Set-Connect is a structured and fun event based on a speed dating format. Time: 10:00 am to 12:30 pm Date: Wednesday 24 March. [...]
Disability Employment: using Customised Employment & the NDIS to support choice Transitioning to Meaningful Employment Disability Employment: using Customised Employment & the NDIS to support choice Join Knox City Council Disability Services and Youth Services for this parent webinar presented by Jon Adams, Centre for Disability Employment Research and Practice. Open to parents, carers and [...]
Supporting Employment Outcomes - advice for Support Coordinators Author: Sally Coddington Published by DSC 1 March 2020 The NDIA has been busy making changes to NDIS funding for employment and has an employment strategy aptly titled the NDIS Employment Strategy 2019 – 2022. While all this effort indicates a welcome emphasis [...]
The NDIA aims to have 30 per cent of participants of a working age in meaningful employment by 30 June 2023 and it is busy making changes to the NDIS funding for employment. But low expectations, ongoing and systemic discrimination and complex employment support systems persist as barriers to reaching [...]
What is this all about? Australian Federation of Disability Organisations (AFDO) has funding to host 47 information sessions all over Australia and online between May and December this year. The workshop information and booklets are all ready to go - but we need a few more people with disability from different parts [...]
The primary purpose of this work was to ensure that children and young people with disabilities in NSW had the opportunity to express their voices, opinions and experiences in line with the principle of participation emphasised in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), the Convention [...]
