Event description
Housing & Disability in the ACT - Day 1
This is the first of two half day sessions of the ACT Disability & Housing Forum being held as part of the Opening the Door Project.
Over two days the forum will be looking at disability housing including:
· What disability housing is
· Ways to get housing if with NDIS
· Ways to get housing without NDIS
· What good and safe housing is
· Looking at new and different ways to live
· Where to get help with this
You need to complete separate registrations to attend each day.
To book for Day 2 go to https://events.humanitix.com/act-disability-and-housing-forum-day-2
Day 1 Content
· About the Opening the Door Project
· Housing for people with disability in the ACT
· The NDIS, Homes & Living
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Who can attend Day 1
· People with disability and their support people
· Carers, advocates and support coordinators
· Service providers, organisations and businesses providing relevant support
· Representatives from government, peak bodies and more
Due to COVID-19 we need to limit who can attend in person.
You can also attend online. We will provide the link before the forum.
Please select online registration ticket unless you would like to attend in person.
We will not be taking bookings 'first in, first served'. We will be looking at who most needs to attend in person. We may limit attendance to 1 person from each service or organisation. People with disability who cannot watch online will be our first priority.
Bookings close
· Monday 24 May - if you are a person with disability needing our help to find a support person.
· Tuesday 25 May (5pm) – all other bookings
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Do you need support to come to the Forum?
If you are a person with disability and need support at the forum you can do one of these things:
- Ask someone you know to come with you.
- Ask someone you know to help you find someone to bring.
If no one can help you contact us by email by Monday 24 May 2021. We will help you find a support worker for yourself, or to share on the day.
AUSLAN
We will provide AUSLAN interpreting for Day 1.
Closed captioning
We will provide closed captioning to the online feed.
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The Opening the Door Project
Led by Rights & Inclusion Australia (R&IA), this project will provide people with disability with accessible resources and networks to support them in achieving choice and control with their housing options.
Initially focusing on the ACT, where R&IA project staff are based, the project will extend to all other states and territories and will include on-location forums (COVID permitting) and collaboration.
This project is being funded under the Australian Government’s Information, Linkages & Capacity Building program.
Project partners
Rights & Inclusion Australia | National Shelter | Enliven Community
ACT partner
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Privacy
R&IA will have access to all information that you submit when you register to attend this event. We will be using this for the following purposes only:
· To coordinate your attendance at the event;
· To issue surveys to people who register to attend this event. These will be voluntary to complete. They will assist the Opening the Door project to make sure that the project is best able to assist people with disability towards their housing goals. R&IA will issue a separate Participation Information Statement with all surveys.
Your information will be stored in a secure R&IA file system. Only R&IA staff will have access to it. Your identity/information will be kept strictly confidential, except as required by law.
Humanitix's privacy policy for people registering to attend this event can be viewed at https://events.humanitix.com/pdfs/humanitix_privacy_policy.pdf