Informed and Empowered: Disability and Education
We'd love you to join us and our expert speakers to learn, know your rights & increase your confidence to self-advocate.
Date and time
Location
St Ives Community Hall
Memorial Avenue Saint Ives, NSW 2075 AustraliaAbout this event
- 4 hours
FREE COMMUNITY EVENT, LUNCH PROVIDED!
It is often said that 'Knowledge is Power' and 'You don't know what you don't know'.
So... what if, together, we can do something about that?
Thanks to a NSW Government Grant from the Department of Communities and Justice and the Disability Advocacy Futures Program, Action for People With Disability is proud and excited to present a series of 8 community education and advocacy workshops for the disability community in Northern Sydney.
We would love you to join our team and the panel of expert presenters we have brought together, so that you can learn specialised information to support you to know and uphold your rights, and to be your own self-advocate.
Knowledge truly can bring power.
So let's learn together.
WORKSHOP 5: Monday June 17th 2024
Informed and Empowered: Disability and Education
Join a host of speakers with a wealth of experience, representing many parts of the Education experience in NSW, including:
- The right to education
- Defining 'disability' in an Education system context
- Applying for funding for disability and learning support in schools
- Different education models and settings such as public and private SSP (Schools for Specific Purposes), Mainstream schools with and without disability support units, and SLSO (School Learning Support Officers)
- Defining Reasonable Adjustment in an education context to facilitate access to learning and assessment opportunities
- Enrolment and accessing specialised support options
- Support options at school related to behaviours of concern
- Post-school transition planning
- Indirect Discrimination: when a student’s needs are not met by their education setting: hearing a lived experience perspective
- Education support options at TAFE: hearing a lived experience perspective
- Education support options at University: hearing a lived experience perspective
Speakers include:
Carmel Hillier: Learning Support Instructional Leader, Year 2-6 Teacher, Dee Why Public School
Josh Wilson: 2023 TAFE Graduate
Michael Rahme: Disability Advocate and University Graduate
Peta Barry: Disability Advocate
Vanessa Dillon and Jacqui Anderson: St Edmund's College Wahroonga
Arianne McCombie, Matt Tonkin, Jen Knowles: Fisher Road School
Betty Harris: President, Board of Action for People With Disability
Today's workshop will include multiple sessions of focused information, separated by catered breaks.
FUTURE WORKSHOP DATES AND TOPICS: Pop these in your diary! More details to come!
- June 24th: Informed and Empowered: Disability and Decision Making
- July 1st: Informed and Empowered: Disability and Employment
- August 1st: Informed and Empowered: Disability and Housing
Frequently asked questions
The St Ives Community Centre is an accessible venue adjacent to the St. Ives Shopping Village, which has free timed-parking on site including disabled parking. The St Ives Community Centre has an accessible toilet attached.
Action For People With Disability will provide refreshments and light catering to enable people to take breaks and participate in the whole workshop
No, this is a free community event, accessible with a ticket via this event page. The Informed and Empowered Workshop series has been made possible by a NSW Government Grant from the Department of Communities and Justice, as part of the Disability Advocacy Futures Program
The content delivered by workshop presenters is focused on educating and empowering people with lived experience of disability about their rights and options. Informal and formal supports, as well as service providers who are keen to learn and pass on new information, are also welcome!
Some content in the Informed and Empowered Workshop Series is detailed and may be experienced as complex. If you think that it will help you to bring along a support person to better understand the content, please book them a ticket also- we would love to welcome them along too.
No- this workshop focuses on adult topics and is not suitable for children to attend
No, the Informed and Empowered Workshop Series is a series of face to face workshops that will not be filmed or recorded or broadcast via a streaming platform.