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Archives for March 2016

‘Active Support – Connecting with Others’

March 31, 2016 by Graham Barr

FACS/ADHC have developed this one minute video promoting a person-centred Active Support approach with people with cognitive disabilities who demonstrate behaviours of concern. It shows how disability support workers can […]

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Reports from the NSW Law Reform Commission on people with cognitive and mental impairments and the criminal justice system

March 24, 2016 by Graham Barr

Two reports from the NSW Law Reform Commission address the issue of people with cognitive and mental impairments and the criminal justice system, and provide background to the Disability Justice Project in […]

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Indigenous Australians with Mental Health Disorders and Cognitive Disabilities in the Criminal Justice System

March 24, 2016 by Graham Barr

A predictable and preventable path: ‘The Indigenous Australians with Mental Health Disorders and Cognitive Disability in the Criminal Justice System (IAMHDCD) Project’ – brings an innovative Indigenous-informed mixed method research approach that […]

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Expression of Interest – Aboriginal Training Consultants

March 1, 2016 by Gus Frystak

ACWA/ CCWT is seeking to employ training consultants and other professionals interested in developing and/or delivering face-to-face or online training as part of the 2016-2017 NSW Disability Justice Project training […]

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Registrations Opening Soon
 – The Disability Justice Project Training  

March 1, 2016 by Gus Frystak

We wanted you to be the first to know that the first series of free of charge workshops across NSW during April and May are being finalised and registration process […]

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December 12, 2017

The ConversationThree reasons Australians should be concerned that NGOs’ voices are not being heard. A healthy democracy is built on the premise that public debate should allow for many and diverse voices to be heard as part of the contest for ideas that informs policymaking. If Australians want this to be the case, the current state of play offers three reasons for concern.

December 11, 2017

Family MattersThe Family Matters Report 2017 shows the rate at which Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children are removed from their families continues to be an escalating national crisis. Without immediate action from all levels of government further generations of children will be lost to their families, cultures and communities. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children are 9.8 times more likely to be living in out-of-home care than non-Indigenous children.

December 7, 2017

Mission AustraliaMission Australia have just released results from their 16th Youth Survey, in which 24,055 young people aged 15 to 19 took part. Young people identified mental health, alcohol and drugs and equity and discrimination as the most important issues in Australia today, with around one third of young people identifying mental health (33.7%) or alcohol and drugs (32.0%) as important issues in Australia today and almost three in ten respondents identifying equity and discrimination (27.3%) as a major issue. 

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