Caring Communities Webinar: Informal Supports in our Communities and the NDIS

Join us for our first Caring Communities webinar on "Informal supports in our communities and the National Disability Insurance Scheme."

Topic

The NDIS will be a major issue for governments across Australia for the next five years, with significant implications for hundreds of thousands of people. It’s such a challenging context in which we’ll need to have nine jurisdictions and communities working together. Yet informal supports are poorly understood and supported by government. How might we mobilise support and thinking about what might be possible building on community assets?

Format

30 minute panel discussion followed by 30 minutes audience Q&A.

Time and location

Tuesday 19 November 2024, 2:30 to 3:30pm.

Online. This webinar will be held on Zoom. An access link will be sent via email to each registered participant a day prior to the event.

Accessibility

The Sydney Policy Lab is committed to ensuring our online and in person events are safe, accessible and enjoyable for all.

This webinar will be closed captioned. If you have any other access requirements for participation, please do let us know when registering.

About the speakers

Professor Brendan McCormack is Academic Chair of the Australia Cares project at the Sydney Policy Lab. An internationally renowned nursing leader, Brendan has spent his career enabling person-centred practices in nursing and healthcare through participatory action research. He is now Head of School and Dean, Susan Wakil School of Nursing and Midwifery at the Faculty of Medicine and Health, the University of Sydney.

Associate Professor Shane Clifton serves as the Deputy Director of the Centre for Disability Research and Policy. He is also the President of the Board of Spinal Cord Injuries Australia and a board member of The Disability Trust. As a quadriplegic (C5 incomplete), Shane brings invaluable lived experience to his teaching on ethics and disability studies within the School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine. Before joining the University of Sydney, he held positions as policy director and research officer at Australia’s Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse, Neglect, and Exploitation of People with Disabilities. His research focuses on the flourishing of people with disability, addressing ableism, and promoting disability leadership and human rights, guided by the principle “Nothing about us without us” (or more appropriately, “Nothing without us”).

Dr Sheelagh Daniels-Mayes is a Gomeroi woman with low vision. She lectures in Indigenous Studies, and is Deputy Associate Dean, Diversity and Inclusion - Disability, Faculty of Arts at the University of Melbourne. Her research expertise includes sociology of racism, Critical Indigenous Studies, Critical Disability Studies and intersectionality. Her scholarship draws on her previous studies of education, psychology, sociology and criminology.

Sheelagh is the Chief Investigator of an ARC Discovery Indigenous, 'Improving Life Outcomes for Indigenous People Living with a Disability: Lessons from Australia's Universities'. This is a multidisciplinary team investigating the experiences of Indigenous staff and students with disability. She is developing a framework referred to as BlakAbility.

Prior to entering into academia Sheelagh worked for and with government and community agencies tackling a diversity of human rights issues.

Dr Kim Bulkeley is an occupational therapist with over 25 years’ experience in the community disability sector in front line, management, policy and research roles. Kim has a continuing position with the Occupational Therapy Discipline at the Faculty of Health Sciences in a teaching and research role. Kim is passionate about her research work with remote communities in north western NSW increasing access to allied health services through action research methods. Kim completed her PhD in 2017, investigating a family centred intervention for young children with autism.

About Caring Communities Webinars

Caring Communities webinars are a new initiative of the Sydney Policy Lab’s Australia Cares program. Over the past two years, we have heard directly from people in communities that they want to talk about what care looks like for people across Australia, hear the latest thinking and discuss what’s working well or could be done differently. Responding to this, we have begun a series of online talks on latest thinking across a range of topics followed by opportunity for audience Q&A and discussion.