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Mirage News
Sunday 15th October, 2023

The Albanese Labor Government is establishing a National Centre of Excellence in Intellectual Disability Health – which fulfils an election commitment made in 2022. Compared with the general population, the…

VMIAC
Thursday 12th October, 2023
Sunday 19th November, 2023

VMIAC have two exciting PAID opportunities for people with lived experience of psychosocial disability, mental ill health and/or using mental health services who are current NDIS participants or are interested…

VMIAC
Sunday 10th September, 2023
Sunday 19th November, 2023

VMIAC have 2 exciting PAID opportunities for people with lived experience of psychosocial disability, mental ill health and/or using mental health services who are current NDIS participants or are interested…

Safer Care Victoria
Monday 4th September, 2023
Friday 22nd September, 2023

What is it? A minimum 18-month appointment to the Consumer Voice Working Group (CVWG). The Consumer Voice Working Group will help SCV and the Department of Health to better capture…

Vic Health
Friday 1st September, 2023

The Victoria Health Department have developed a range of fact sheets, video content, easy English guides, posters and other supporting communications products, including information that will be translated into community…

Rob Wooley
Disability Services Consulting
Sunday 27th August, 2023

Dear DSC, As a provider delivering Core supports in a regional area, we’ve had mixed messages about whether we can deliver supports when a participant is in hospital. The participant has…

Kathleen R. Bogart Ph.D. and Sydney Tran
Psychology Today
Monday 28th August, 2023

Key Points The social model states that society is the primary cause of disability, so it is a social responsibility. A new study finds that social model beliefs about disability…

Mental Health Victoria
Tuesday 15th August, 2023
Victoria will have a new Mental Health and Wellbeing Act from 1 September 2023. The new Act replaces the Mental Health Act 2014. It has new rights-based principles that promote
Mirage News
Friday 28th July, 2023
The Andrews Labor Government is supporting women with disabilities to secure work in the health, social and disability service sectors, recognising the wealth of lived experience women with disabilities can
Karan Nagrani, as told to Carol Rääbus
ABC Everyday
Thursday 13th July, 2023
There's a lot of pressure on disability advocates to be mentally strong all the time. As a content creator, there's this self-inflicted pressure to be happy. I took on
Jake Evans
ABC
Wednesday 28th June, 2023
Fewer people with psychosocial disability may be added to the NDIS in the future, as the minister flags that the government expects to divert 27,000 people to outside supports in
National Disability Services
Monday 12th June, 2023
The Ready to Go Home resources have been co-designed and co-developed with health consumers with disability, disability service providers and health professionals to improve the hospital experience for a person