A Survey to Hear Your Thoughts on how You Seek & Receive Information

Given we are in a time of change where disability services all over are moving towards Person Centred Systems, IDEAS NSW are interested to know of all the different ways you value receiving information.

They are also interested in where you seek information to make the most of every choice available to you. They want to be able to show what is important for people with disabilities and their families, carers and service providers, when they are seeking information.

IDEAS has put together a survey, which hopes to gives some answers to these questions;

They invite you to complete the survey at:

www.surveymonkey.com/s/ideas_survey

They’d like to get at least 1000 replies to make the survey significant. The answers will be analysed, so they can make some recommendations for future service designs and how they connect with the community.

No individual or personal information will be shared with anyone. Your details are kept entirely confidential.

You can also enter your details to be in the draw to win a $250 Coles voucher. There is no obligation to complete the survey, or the draw.

IDEAS would like to thank you in advance for taking the time to complete this survey and the findings will be shared with you via their newsletter and website when they are in.

If you have any questions or problems please give them a call on 1800 029 904 or email info@ideas.org.au and they will be happy to speak to you about anything at all, and help you in any way they can.

The Traveller - Diana Palmer

The feature of my day has been catching up with our international informative, Diana Palmers. She has been regularly sending her blog posts my way and it is again interesting to see that she is finding alot of similarities and also differences between Australia's disability services and services from overseas.

I am looking forward to recieving the feedback and information she has about how disability information can grow in Australia. The places she has visited are plentiful and fabulous (and yes I am very jealous). So far she has visited:

• San Francisco
• New York
• Texas
• Phoenix
• Montreal

Check out one of her recent blog posts:

Keroul - Wednesday 28th April

Back to work....I spent the day with Andre leCLerc and his team at Keroul in Montreal today. What a great day. This organisation is doing a number of the things that we can see IDEAS doing....we can learn a lot from them. Keroul have specialised in supporting accessible tourism for people with disability in Quebec for 30 years and have a wealth of experience and knowledge. I spent time with the executive team, Research and Development team as well as peopel working on their Äccessible Road project. The dedicated staff of 8 people were wonderful hosts and I can't thank them enough for their time. I came away from the day armed with a mountain of papers, reports and tools to research and review as well as a genuine hockey puck. Great ambassadors for Quebec; it was so nice to connect with colleagues in our field.I will meet again with people from Keroul at the Transed Conference in Hong Kong. If you would like to see what they do visit either http://www.keroul.qc.ca/ if you would like to see what they do or http://www.larouteaccessible.com/ which is another of their websites.

I am looking forward to finding out more about her travels and will keep you informed of her movements. There are a lot of nice photos up on her blog, so check them out!