'Opening the Door' Housing Workshop - Melbourne

A face-to-face workshop, as part of the Opening the Door Victoria Disability & Housing Forum

Event date: Tuesday 21st February 2023, from 10:00am - 2:00pm

Venue: Storey Hall, 336–348 Swanston St, Melbourne (just north of the State Library Victoria, over Latrobe Street)

This is an accessible venue. Further details will be provided to registrants.

Registrations close Sunday 19th February at 6:00pm

This is a free event intended for people with disability, their families/ friends/ unpaid carers and any support needed to attend. It is not open to other attendees. We will also be hosting a similar event in Bendigo on Thursday 23rd February.

At this four-hour face-to-face workshop, we will:

Recap presentations and discussions from the three online sessions held the previous week:

Pathways to Housing for People with Disability in Victoria
Dealing with Tenancy Issues for People with Disability in Victoria
National Disability Insurance Scheme – Home and Living Supports

Discuss current housing issues that you are facing
Discuss opportunities to achieve choice and control with your housing and support options

Lunch and refreshments will be provided.

You can register for the earlier online sessions and the Bendigo Workshop via links provided at https://riaustralia.org/opening-the-door-project/.

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Accessibility & Reasonable Adjustments:

If you need assistance or reasonable adjustments to attend please provide details when registering.

Please note that we need a minimum of five business days' notice to book some types of supports, including AUSLAN interpreting.

Please contact projectofficer@riaustralia.org with any queries or requests.

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More about the Opening the Door project

The Opening the Door project aims to support people with disability to achieve choice and control with their housing options through:

Developing and sharing online resources
Forums designed to both share information and gather experiences
Support existing and establish new peer networks.

The project is for all people with disability regardless of their type of disability or age, and whether they are a participant in the NDIS or not.

For more information go to https://riaustralia.org/opening-the-door-project/.

Project Partners:

Rights & Inclusion Australia, National Shelter, Enliven Community and the state & territory members of National Shelter

This project is being funded under the Australian Government’s Information, Linkages & Capacity Building program.

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Privacy:

Rights & Inclusion Australia (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, and provide you with additional resources related to 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.

R&IA's Privacy Policy can be viewed here.

Humanitix's privacy policy for people registering to attend this event can be viewed at https://events.humanitix.com/pdfs/humanitix_privacy_policy.pdf