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Enabling Risk: Putting Positives First Online Program

La Trobe University Living with Disability Research Centre
Saturday 1st September, 2018
​This resource is designed to provide an introduction to enabling risk. You will be introduced to the ways you can support people with cognitive disabilities, including people with intellectual disabilities
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VicHealth Indicators Survey Supplementary report: Disability

Vic Health
Monday 3rd December, 2018
The survey collected information on a range of factors known to influence individual and community wellbeing including safety, mental wellbeing, physical activity, healthy eating and alcohol consumption. The results show
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Poor disability support practices highlighted

DSC (Disability Services Commissioner)
Thursday 20th December, 2018
The DSC (Disability Services Commissioner) 2018 annual report and review of disability service provision to people who have died 2017–18 was tabled in Victorian Parliament on the 19/12/2018.
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Contextual issues in the implementation of mental health legislation

RuthVine, FionaJudd
Science Direct
Sunday 11th November, 2018

An new article in the International Journal of Law and Psychiatry explores how changes to Victorian legislation improving human rights have been limited by under-investment and policy failures across the

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Guide to NDIS decision-making

OPA (Office of the Public Advocate)
Monday 1st January, 2018
A guide to outline when decision-making support, advocacy and substitute decision-making will be needed for potential and current NDIS participants who have significant cognitive disability.
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Supporting You – Supporting Students

Australian Disability Clearinghouse on Education and Training (ADCET)
Wednesday 1st January, 2014
This clearing house facilitate successful outcomes and improved educational experience for students with disability by providing information, advice and resources to disability practitioners, academics, teachers and students on inclusive practices
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Building Employer Demand

Kantar Public
Department of Social Services (DSS)
Monday 1st October, 2018
In order to determine barriers different employers and businesses in Australia face to employing people with disability, The Department of Social Services (DSS) commissioned Kantar Public to undertake a program
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Voice at the Table

Self Advocacy Resource Unit (SARU)
Monday 1st October, 2018
The resources developed as part of this project provide practical consumer participation information, ideas and resources which can be used by service providers, governments and community organisations to ensure people
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We’ve Got This: Parenting with a Disability

Eliza Hull
ABC RN Life Matters
Monday 22nd October, 2018
We’ve Got This: Parenting with a Disability is a new ABC radio series produced by Eliza Hull. Eliza has a neurological condition 'Charcot Marie Tooth', and she’s the ABC’s 2018
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Market Stewardship Actions for the NDIS: New Report

Gemma Carey, Eleanor Malbon, Axelle Marjolin, Daniel Reeders
Centre for Social Impact
Monday 1st October, 2018
In this report the CSI draw together the international literature on effective quasi-market interventions for managing market failures and gaps.
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A National Guideline for the Assessment and Diagnosis of Autism Spectrum Disorder in Australia

AutismCRC
Tuesday 16th October, 2018
This guideline aims to create greater consistency in diagnostic practices across the country to ensure individuals on the autism spectrum and their families can receive the optimal clinical care. The
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Hand In Hand Parent Meeting Report

Parenting Research Centre
Self Advocacy Resource Unit (SARU)
Wednesday 19th September, 2018
Positive Powerful Parents is a self advocacy group for parents with intellectual disability. Last month they hosted a parent meeting. 17 parents with intellectual disability from all over Victoria were
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