All abilities means different things to different people I’ve recently noticed some local events being described as “all abilities” events. I’m never quite sure about what I will find when I turn up to an “all abilities” event because it means different things to different people. To me all means Read more…
I’ve been running a survey for a few months now across people with disability and their families that use support workers to help their family member to have the good life they want. I’ve been trying to understand how the employment relationship affects outcomes for the people they support. The Read more…
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A commonly asked question is can a support worker be a friend? If your goal is to help the person you support to build friendships, then my view is that the answer needs to be no. There can be a murky invisible line between friends and support workers because they Read more…
Sometimes amazing, beautiful, wonderful, well-intentioned humans can do some not so good things without intending to that have bad outcomes for people with disability. Even us parents who love our disabled kids dearly do and we don’t even realise it. We’ve grown up learning our beliefs about people with disability Read more…
Decide what kind of business legal structure (if any) you want to set up – incorporated association, company etc. Get an ABN – or a WPN if you decide not to set up a business structure. Get insurance – workers compensation and public liability insurance policy Work out how much Read more…
1.They set boundaries Employees must understand that there are rules that they must abide by and procedures that must be followed. They must understand that failure to follow them has consequences. 2. Safety One consequence of not having policies and procedures in place is that there is no safeguard in Read more…
Friendships can’t be forced. But there are things we can do to increase the chances of friendships forming. Janet Klees proposes 5 Ps Janet Klees is a Canadian expert in building relationships between people with and without disability. She proposes these 5 Ps: Person – know in depth the interests, Read more…
Building friendships for our family members with disability isn’t easy. How we define what a friend is will be really important for how we go about supporting friendships. If we don’t know what a friend is, then how can we know if we have them or not and our strategies Read more…
