Quilpie: A Good Life for each Person with Disability - an opportunity to meet with CRU in May!

Meet with Community Resource Unit (CRU) in South West Queensland!

A good life for each person with disability!

An opportunity for people with disability and their families to meet with CRU in Quilpie and surrounds for a small group session or an individual conversation.

CRU is returning to visit towns across the Quilpie, Murweh and Maranoa regions in May 2024.

Join us in your region for a friendly and relaxed session on supporting a good life, so people with disability can be included and supported to live the lives they want.

Connect with others and get ideas from what people are doing in other places.

Quilpie

Drop Session Info - Monday 20th May

Quilpie Council Administration Office

50 Brolga Street, Quilpie

Drop-in session 12.30pm to 2.30pm

Other times and locations in the region by arrangement.

If you would like us to visit you in Quilpie or surrounding towns, get in touch as we'll see what we can do!

Individual or small group conversations

Would you like to talk in more depth about your own situation or goals? We will also be available for individual conversations if there are things you would like to discuss one-on-one.

Some ideas for topics you could talk to us about include:

• Belonging and what makes a good life for a person with disability
• Having a vision and making a plan for the life you want (not just for the NDIS!)
• A home of one's own
• Friendships and relationships
• Succession and planning for the future
• Advocacy - for yourself or for your family member
• Safeguarding - keeping people safe without wrapping them in cotton wool
• Creative use of funding and self-managing
• Using funded support well
• Real and meaningful work

Get in touch to organise a time to meet or have a conversation. Our dates may change slightly.

Download the flyer here (pdf)

Download the accessible flyer here (word)

About the Presenters

Catherine Laherty has worked with CRU since 2015, starting on a project assisting people and families to get ready for the NDIS. Catherine presents workshops on topics like using your NDIS plan well, advocacy, self-management, belonging and a 'good life' for people with disability. Catherine has facilitated networks of people who self-manage their support in Brisbane and Toowoomba.

She is interested in people with disability being valued and included in their local community, having the skills and confidence they need to be in control of their life, and the development of natural supports (peer support, ‘informal’ support), for people with and without funding

Sue Duncan-Kemp has over 30 years experience in the disability sector working in roles within government and in the not-for-profit sector. Before semi-retiring, she worked in the provision of NDIS Early Childhood Early Intervention Services in South West Queensland. 

Sue began her working life as a Speech and Language Pathologist and developed an ongoing interest in and from early beginnings working in large residential settings, developed an ongoing interest in what it takes to enable people with a disability of all ages to live ordinary (and extraordinary), meaningful lives in the communities of their choice. 

Who is Community Resource Unit Ltd (CRU)

CRU believes people with disability deserve access to the same life as everybody else. For over 35 years, CRU has been working across Queensland to help people with disability take control of their lives and take their place in their community. We have been funded as a Disabled People and Families Organisation by the Department of Social Services for these activities. There is a cost to attend or participate.