Articles

QUEENSLAND ELECTION CAMPAIGN KIT

Author: Disability Alliance

Journal: Disability Alliance, January, 2009.

Notes: About the Disability Alliance, key messages, future campaign strategies, what you can do, sample letters, contact list for Qld MPs, your story template.

For more information: Politics/24

For a copy of the kit: Qld Election Campaign Kit

DON'T FORGET YOUR 'PIN'

Author: Planned Individual Networks.

Journal : Disparity, Vol 4, No.2 Australia, 2007. pgs 10-13.

Notes: 'Planned Individual Networks Inc' (PIN) is a western Australian family-led and driven organisation which has chosen 'self-sufficiency' (free of recurrent government funding) as one of its 'core values'. In essence this translates into a total accountability to people with disabilities and their families. It's purpose is to 'support families plan a safe, secure and fulfilling future for their relatives with disabilities' when key family support is no longer available. It is based on, and has strong alignment with, the Canadian model Planned Lifetime Advocacy Network (PLAN).

For more information: Service Design/37

FAMILY RESILIENCE WHERE FAMILIES HAVE A CHILD (0-8 YEARS) WITH A DISABILITY: FINAL REPORT

Author: Muir, K.

Journal: Disability Policy and Research Working Group, Social Policy Research Institute, UNSW. www.sprc.unsw.edu.au, October, 2008.

Notes: This report summarises the findings of the final report, which focusses on the findings from the primary data collection with families and stakeholders. It develops the understanding of family resilience in families with young children (0-8 years) with disability. This component of the research also analyses service practices and models in order to identify and define elements of practice that build family resilience, detract from family resilience, and are crucial to the maintenance of resiliency. It concludes with a section on how services can assist families to build and maintain resilience.

For more information: Families/64

For a full copy of the report: Final Report

PERSONALISATION: A ROUGH GUIDE

Author: Carr, S.

Publisher: Social Care Institute for Excellence, London, Great Britain, 2008. pgs 47.

Notes: Julie Jones, Chief Executive of SCIE says personalisation means thinking about public services and social care in an entirely new way - starting with the person rather than the service. It will require a transformation of adult social care. Sarah defines terms such as personalisation, direct payment, individual budget and personal budget. She then outlines the new roles and functions that this process requires.

For more information: Quality of Life/11

Books

KEYS TO CITIZENSHIP

Author: Duffy, S.

Publisher: Paradigm Consultancy and Development Agency Ltd, Birkenhead, Great Britain, 2003. pgs 166.

Notes: People with learning disabilities are often badly treated by society and by the services that are paid to help them. A big reason that people with learning difficulties are not treated properly is because they are not given the power to exercise their full rights as human beings. Instead they are treated as objects, controlled by others. People should be treated as full citizens, and in order to make this happen people with learning difficulties need six different things. Self-determination, direction, money, home, support and community life. This book contains lots of practical things to think about if you want to make the improvements in any or all of those areas of your life.

To request more information about this book: 361 KEY

THE ROAD AHEAD: TRANSITION TO ADULT LIFE FOR PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES, 2ND EDITION

Author: Storey, K, Bates, P, and Hunter, D (eds) .

Publisher: Training Resource Network Inc, St Augustine, Florida, 2008. pgs 271.

Notes: The current educational and adult service systems (USA) have done an inadequate job of preparing and employing people with disabilities. Poor quality of life outcomes and high rates of unemployment remain among adults with disabilities. This book provides strategies and ideas for improving the lives of people with disabilities that you serve. Any situation needs to be judged by the ability to deliver quality of life outcomes to people with disabilities and to meet the criterion of ultimate functioning (Brown, Nietupski and Hamre-Nietupski, 1976). To paraphrase Helen Keller, 'People with disablities not only need to be given lives, they need to be given lives worth living'.

Chapter 1- Person-Centered Transition Planning: creating Lifestyles of Community Inclusion and Autonomy

Chapter 2- Instructional Assessment

Chapter 3- Skills that Enhance Community Inclusion

Chapter 4- Career Development: Developing Basic Work Skills and Employment Preferences

Chapter 5- Adult Employment, Contributing through Work

Chapter 6- Community Functioning Skills

Chapter 7- Social Life

Chapter 8- Quality of Life

Chapter 9- Self Determination: Enhancing Competence and Independence

Chapter 10- Supported Living

Chapter 11- Postsecondary Education for Students With Disabilities.

To request more information about this book: 361 ROA

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