Showing posts with label My choice matters. Show all posts
Showing posts with label My choice matters. Show all posts

Friday, March 7, 2014

Workshops to Prepare for Individualised Funding

We’re sure you will agree there is so much information going around at the moment about the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS). So how do you make sense of it all? One great way is to go along to one of the many free workshops that are being offered around the state.

These workshops guide you through the process of getting ready for the NDIS. You have the opportunity to talk to people that are already managing their own supports. They share their experience of what works and how you can also make things work for you. 

Below you will find a list of these workshops offered in the coming months by a couple of different organisations.

My Choice Matters - Get More Skills Workshops

 
Inverell - Monday 17th March - 9:30am – 2:30pm
Narrabri - Tuesday 18th March - 9:30am – 2:30pm
Nyngan - Disability Info Share - Wednesday 19th – Friday 21st - time - 9am to 3pm daily.  

http://www.adnnsw.org.au/nyngan-info-share/
Condobolin - Saturday 22nd – Get More Skills - time TBC
Eastlakes - Friday 28th – Get More Skills - 9:30am - 2:30pm


Run Projects is an initiative of My Choice Matters, and is a way for you to apply for funding (up to $5,000) to co-run a project with My Choice Matters. Run Projects is hoping to  achieve:

  • Support you to develop more skills so you can exercise more choice, voice
    and control in your life
  • Create opportunities for you to experiment and trial new ways of doing things,
    create new knowledge and ways of being in control; and
  • Share your learning with others
     
My Choice Matters will run 4 application rounds for Run Projects. You should plan to  complete your project during the project dates allocated to the round in
which you applied.


Round 1 - Application Deadline: 7 Apr 2014 - Project Dates: 1 May 2014 – 31
Oct 2014


Round 2 - Application Deadline: TBA - Project Dates: 1 July 2014 – 31 Dec
2014.


To register or find out further information on any of the above you can visit: www.mychoicematters.org.au


The Physical Disability Council of NSW (PDCN) are running a number of workshops called “Getting Ready”. This a free workshop run over 2 days (3 hours each day) for people with physical disability.


The focus of the workshop is gaining more control over your life by identifying what is  important to you, set goals and make a plan to achieve goals.
 

Blacktown - 10-11 March 2014
Nyngan - 19,20,21 March 2014
Wagga Wagga - 24-25 March 2014
Bega - 28-29 April 2014
Webinar (via the internet)
Offered to all of State - 14-15 April 2014
Armidale - 18-19 August 2014
Berry - 23-24 June 2014
 

To register for a free workshop or to find out more information please contact:
admin@pdcnsw.org.au or call (02) 9552 1606


To find out more visit: http://www.pdcnsw.org.au/

Resourcing Families are also running some workshops in the coming months:
 

Making the Most of Self Management
 

West Ryde - Thursday 3 April 2014
 

Keys to Developing Meaningful Lives
 

Orange - Wednesday 26 March
Lismore - Wednesday 9 April
Sydney - Wednesday 30 April
Nowra - Wednesday 7 May
Wagga Wagga - Wednesday 28 May
Armidale - Wednesday 18 June
Broken Hill - Wednesday 16 July


To find out more on the above workshops and to to register visit: www.resourcingfamilies.org.au/events

Friday, September 6, 2013

My Choice Matters

My Choice Matters has been created to help people get the most out of the system changes to person-centred support and live life their way. My Choice Matters is managed by Council for Intellectual Disability NSW with funding from the NSW Government.

To help people understand these changes a number of workshops called ‘Getting Started’ will be held people with disability and family members to hear  from people who have been exercising more control, voice and choice. The Getting Started Workshops run for about 4 hours (with breaks) and will talk about some of the changes that lie ahead with more person centred approaches and the introduction of DisabilityCare Australia (the national disability insurance scheme.)

The workshops will focus on the elements of a good life and encourage everyone to think what that might look like in your life. On the day of the workshop participants will be taking part alongside other people with disability and family members.

Participants will learn about new thinking and new ideas that will help you to get started and prepare for the changes ahead. Below is a list of when and where these workshops will be held.

  • Bega - 10 September
  • Wollongong - 14th September
  • Taree - 17 September
  • Kempsey - 18 September - Workshop for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Communities
  • Tamworth - 19 September
  • Webinar - 21 September
  • Albury - 24 September
  • Wagga Wagga - 25 September
  • Griffith - 26 September
  • Sutherland - 28 September
  • Sydney - CBD 2 October
  • Webinar - 3 October
  • Queanbeyan - 4 October
  • Erina - 17 October
  • Ryde / Epping - 19 October

The ‘webinars’ can be accessed anywhere, as long as you have a computer with internet access. Details of the addresses and times of the workshops as well as webinar details will be given when you register. 

To find out more information or register you can visit www.mychoicematters.org.au or call My Choice Matters on 1800144 653.