Zest are offering a huge variety of fun weekend activities coming up over this May and June, including trips to the Australian Museum, bowling, Luna Park and golf. Register your interest at: https://zestcare.net.au/

Located in the heart of Darling Harbour, Tumbalong Lights celebrates the art of play, the basic human right of inclusion and the joy of discovery in honour of the 50th anniversary of the lunar landing. Installations and activations have been produced using the principles of ‘universal design’ so that people of all ages and abilities can enjoy a trip to outer space.

Lets get back to re-creating Communities and breaking isolation!

This session will explore emerging trends in arts and disability practice, the future that arts practitioners with disability want to see and the impact of ongoing consultations and targeted initiatives.

How can VMCH improve design and delivery of accommodation, with and without support, for people with disability, to meet the expectations of clients and residents?

Access 2 Place is hosting a forum for people with disability and their families to meet and discuss future choices for safe, affordable and accessible housing options.

The Northern Sydney Disability Expo is for parents, teachers, supporters, students, advocates and many more.

Women with Disabilities Victoria is running a half-day forum on the NDIS at Moreland City Council in Coburg where you can learn more about the NDIS, and share what women sensitive services mean to you. 

Thriving Now is hosting its inaugural Neurodiversity and Employment Symposium, promoting a positive and productive focus on the strengths that neurodiverse individuals can offer the workplace.

The goal of this symposium is to inform, enlighten and educate attendees from a variety of perspectives. Those of neurodiverse individuals with lived experience of navigating the employment realm, to professional insights and research-based evidence on the benefits of employing and supporting neurodivergent thinkers in the workplace.

This information session is intended to assist participants, family and community to understand access to the NDIS for Psychosocial support needs.

This course will introduce you to defensible documentation and give you the skills to ensure your documentation always protects you.

7th & 8th June - 2019

The Gold Coast Disability Expo is set to be the biggest and most anticipated Disability Expo on the 2019 Gold Coast City Calendar. The National Disability Insurance Scheme has been available since July 1, 2018 on the Gold Coast, Brisbane, Hinterland and extended regions of Queensland. This means thousands of residents with a disability from these regions will gain greater control over their lives. 

This interactive session will include presentations, panel disussions and opportunities for networking.

This training is focussed on people working in disability and is relevant to many disability types including autism, intellectual disability, and acquired brain injury.

This dynamic one-day workshop for professionals will help develop an understanding of housing vulnerability and the impact on women, children, older people and people with disabilities.

The 66th Sydney Film Festival has announced the return of Screenability, an exciting platform for screen practitioners with disability, in partnership with Create NSW. 

Curated by Guest Programmer Sofya Gollan, Create NSW Screen Investment Manager, seven cutting edge works by filmmakers with disability will be showcased: documentaries Vision Portraits, My Name is Daniel, and Sandgirl, and New Zealand short film A Matter of Time, as well as three Australian short films selected as part of the Screenability Filmmakers Fund from Create NSW: Deluge, Magnetic, and Prone to the Drone. 

Filmmakers from the Screenability program will be joined by Breaking Bad’s RJ Mitte (Standing Up for Sunny, screening as part of Special Presentations in the State), for a Meet the Filmmakers talk along Guest Programmer Sofya Gollan at HOYTS Entertainment Quarter (Saturday 15 June, 4:00pm), discussing the importance of authentic representation in film.

Our two-day national conference will examine innovative ways to inspire and engage people with disability in employment opportunities. It is aimed at employment service providers (open, supported and social enterprises) and professionals interested in the design and promotion of a broad range of employment opportunities for people with disability.

Everything students, families-carers, schools, services and providers need to know about moving to life after school or other study with disability…. education, employment, apprenticeships/traineeships, community connections, advocacy, disability services, support services, technology and more!

Organising my NDIS supports will be a FREE 1 hour webinar presented by Plan Partners and MyCareSpace.

Presented by our Head of Support Coordination, Andrea, and disability advocate and NDIS participant, Nicole, we hope for this to be an opportunity for participants to get all their tricky questions answered and gain some handy insights.

The Disability Expo is a free event that brings together a range of disability services in one location, including: NDIS registered providers, government agencies and community organisations.

DATE: 26th - 29th

Into its 13^th year, i-CREATe continues to provide an International platform of conference, Global Student Innovation Challenge, and exhibition featuring innovative technology, equipment, applications, techniques and materials applied in the field of Assistive & Rehabilitative Technology. 

Workplace Diversity has organised a Disability Confident Training at the UNSW Kensington campus to provide all staff with a solid foundation of knowledge to be disability aware in the workplace.

This is a two-hour session which will cover topics such as assessment of intellectual disability, definition of intellectual disabilities, communication, causes, and discussion of particular issues relevant to you.

This workshop helps you to identify dementia related changes in people who have an existing intellectual disability and build on processes to support your clients through the changing nature of dementia.

Essential Personnel will provide advice and information regarding Disability Employment Services, what is available, and eligibility criteria for the program, to allow people within the community to make informed decisions regarding assistance available to them when seeking support or employment.

Carers Victoria has designed a three part program to help you to understand the NDIS process and to get ready for the NDIS planning conversation.

Carers Victoria has designed a three part program to help you to understand the NDIS process and to get ready for the NDIS planning conversation.

10:45am – 12:10pm

This one hour talk discusses the disability access requirements for Class 1b buildings, including rooming houses, boarding houses, bed & breakfasts, small student accommodation buildings and holiday cabins.

In 2011, building and disability legislation changed to require most Class 1b buildings to include accessible features for people with disability. 

This workshop discusses these requirements and aims to help landlords and small businesses operating rooming houses, B&Bs, student accommodation etc., to understand their obligations.

It is limited to 17 people only.

SoSAFE! is a set of visual and conceptual tools designed to promote social safety for people with an Intellectual Disability (moderate to severe range) and Autism Spectrum Disorder.

SoSAFE! tools encourage social safety through the provision of a simplified and rule-governed model of social reality that teaches the type and degree of verbal and physical intimacy appropriate with different categories of people.

The work of Victorian disability advocacy organisations is increasingly being consumed by issues related to national systems such as the NDIS and Centrelink. 

This is truly a unique event aimed at bringing the disability community together to celebrate life, age, empower, learn, share and experience the latest technologies. Along with ample exhibits, attendees will be able to attend a variety of FREE workshops.

The work of Victorian disability advocacy organisations is increasingly being consumed by issues related to national systems such as the NDIS and Centrelink.

The Seniors and Disability Expo will link thousands of seniors and people with disability with hundreds of product and service providers as well as leisure, lifestyle and technology options for all.

After the success of the inaugural event in 2018, the Care Expo will once again provide an opportunity to discover and connect with providers from aged care, disability and in-home support through to education, mobility, mental health, social, recreational services and more.

This is truly a unique event aimed at bringing the disability community together to celebrate life, age, empower, learn, share and experience the latest technologies. Along with ample exhibits, attendees will be able to attend a variety of FREE workshops. (more information about types of workshops and timings to come).

The Brisbane Disability Expo is set to be the biggest and most anticipated all ages, all abilities disability specific Expo on the 2019 Brisbane Calendar.

DATE: 6-8 November

The Australasian Society for Intellectual Disability (ASID) is a not-for-profit organisation that brings together research, policy and practice to improve the lives and services for people with a disability.

Melbourne Seniors and People with Disability are embracing My Future, My Choice as a way to control how they want to live their lives now and plan for the future.