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A Haven for All
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Have you booked your ticket to the Affordable Housing Breakfast?
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the first time, the Illawarra Forum is partnering with the Illawarra Chapter of the Property Council to host a breakfast focussing on Affordable Housing. The focus of the breakfast is to explore both the current policy climate and new opportunities to deliver safe and affordable social, rental and purchasable properties.
Attendees will have the opportunity to hear from a range of expert speakers, and see some examples of creative solutions from the Illawarra, and from around the world.
Speakers include:
- Sebastian James, Director Housing, Disability and Home Care Services, NSW Department of Family and Community Services
- Nicola Lemon, Chair, Power housing Australia
- Jennifer Macquarie, Director, Fountaindale Group
- Joan Ferguson – CEO The Housing Trust – the largest not-for-profit community housing organisation in the Illawarra
Access to affordable housing regularly comes up as the most pressing concern for our members, and the clients they serve. The Breakfast event is an opportunity for stakeholders and interested parties across the region to come together to explore the issue of access to safe, appropriate and affordable housing.
Both the Property Council and the Illawarra Forum have been preparing submissions, lobbying and advocating for some time for policy changes which promote the development of more affordable housing.
Both organisations are keen to pursue strategies which would include increasing the supply of social housing, as well as rental properties and purchasable properties which are affordable to people on low incomes.
Time: 7:30am – 9:00am
Date: Thursday 2nd June 2016
Location: Foreshore Brasserie,
Wollongong Golf Club,
151-161 Corrimal Street, Wollongong
Cost: Members of Illawarra Forum and Property Council | $25 Non-members | $35
Booking: www.trybooking.com/JWVZ
Getting Ready Together for the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS)
The Getting Ready Together Aboriginal Disability Gathering will be held at the Coachhouse Marina Resort, Batemans Bay on 24-25 May 2016.
The Gathering is for Aboriginal people living with a disability, their families and supports workers (carers) who reside in the Goulburn Mulwaree, Yass Valley, Queanbeyan City, Cooma Monaro, Bega Valley and Eurobodalla Shire.
Getting Ready Together (GRT) will feature key presenters from the National Disability Insurance Agency (NDIA) and Ageing Disability and Home Care Service (ADHC).
There will also be practical workshops on support planning, self-managing funds, path planning and NDIS terms and languages.
Community Members:
The Gathering is FREE for Aboriginal people living with a disability, their families, carers and community members.
Gathering organisers will help with transport, accommodation and other special needs.
Registrations can be made by downloading and submitting the attached registration form to Stephany.Rooney@iac.org.au
Alternatively registrations for community members can be made online by clicking on the following link:
Sector and Government Employees:
Registrations for sector workers and government employees can be made online by clicking on the following link:
For more information to hold a stall to promote your services dowlnload and complete the Stallholder EOI form that is attached and send through to the Event Coordinator, Stephanie Rooney by emailing stephanie.rooney@iac.org.au
To Summarise:
What: Getting Ready Together Aboriginal Gathering (National Disability Insurance Scheme)
When: 24 to 25 May at Coachhouse Marina Resort Batemans Bay
Contact: Stephanie Rooney, Ph 02 4228 1585, 0437 400 133, stephanie.rooney@iac.org.au
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/GettingReadyTogether/
Online Registrations: https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/getting-ready-together-aboriginal-disability-gathering-tickets-23134781755
SSI Futureability Project | CALD Community Education Sessions
| LANGUAGE | TOPIC 1
What is Disability and the NDIS |
TOPIC 2 The Major Disability Types
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| 1 Spanish
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9.30am – 1.00 pm Thursday, 12 May 2016 Liverpool Migrant Resource Centre |
9.30am – 1.00 pm Thursday, 6 October 2016 Liverpool Migrant Resource Centre |
| 2 Arabic
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9.30am-1.00 pm Friday, 20 May 2016 SSI Bankstown Auditorium |
9.30am-1.00 pm Tuesday, 26 July 2016 SSI Bankstown Auditorium |
| 3 Italian
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9.30am – 1.00 pm Wednesday, 25 May 2016 Fairfield School of Arts 18 Harris Street, Fairfield |
9.30am – 1.00 pm Thursday, 13 October 2016 Fairfield School of Arts |
| 4 Vietnamese | 9.30am – 1.00 pm Tuesday, 7 June 2016 Fairfield School of Arts 18 Harris Street, Fairfield |
9.30am – 1.00 pm Thursday, 17 November 2016 Fairfield School of Arts 18 Harris Street, Fairfield |
| 5 Cantonese | 9.30am – 1.00 pm Tuesday, 14 June 2016 Beatrice Taylor Hall 25 Edgeworth David Avenue, Hornsby |
9.30am – 1.00 pm
Wednesday, 21 September 2016 Beatrice Taylor Hall 25 Edgeworth David Avenue, Hornsby |
| 6 Mandarin | 9.30am – 1.00 pm Thursday, 16 June 2016 Hurstville Entertainment Centre MacMahon Street, Hurstville |
9.30am – 1.00 pm
Monday, 5 September, 2016 Hurstville Entertainment Centre MacMahon Street, Hurstville |
| 7 Tagalog / Fillipino | 9.30am – 1.00 pm Wednesday, 6 July 2016 Blacktown Senior Citizens Centre 21 Gribble Place, Blacktown 2148 |
9.30am – 1.00 pm
Tuesday, 23 August 2016 Blacktown Senior Citizens Centre 21 Gribble Place, Blacktown 2148 |
| 8 Serbian | 9.30am – 1.00 pm Monday, 11 July 2016 Illawarra Multicultural Services 17 Auburn Street, Wollongong |
9.30am – 1.00 pm
Thursday, 10 November 2016 Illawarra Multicultural Services 17 Auburn Street, Wollongong |
| 9 Farsi
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9.30am – 1.00 pm Friday, 12 August 2016 SydWest Multicultural Services Level 2, 125 Main Street, Blacktown |
9.30am – 1.00 pm Friday, 21 October 2016 SydWest Multicultural Services Level 2, 125 Main Street, Blacktown |
| Arabic
2nd session
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To be confirmed | To be confirmed |
| Greek
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To be confirmed | To be confirmed |
| Hindi/Bengali/Punjabi in English | To be confirmed | To be confirmed |
Careers Expo
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Mindful Parenting
Mindful Parenting is a FREE six week course for parents, grandparents and foster parents of children with an intellectual disability or an autism spectrum disorder (ASD). The course is based on the theory and practice of a mindfulness-based intervention called Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT). ACT uses mindfulness, acceptance and behaviour change strategies to help people take positive, values guided action in their lives.
Mindful Parenting is very different to a traditional parenting course. Mindful Parenting helps parents to make workable, lasting and positive changes in their own lives and in the lives of their children by improving their own psychological flexibility and behavioural adaptability. Parents develop ways to get space from difficult thoughts and make room for unpleasant or painful emotions and body sensations so they can make choices and take action that is guided by personal values. Parents also improve motivation and commitment towards their own self-care and stress reduction.
Mindful Parenting aims to deliver the following outcomes for parents:
- Increased psychological flexibility
- Expansion in range of adaptive parenting behaviours
- Increased skills in mindful attention and awareness
- Increased ability to take positive action that is guided by personal values
- Improvement in relationships with children
- Improvement other family and personal relationships
- Increased kindness and compassion towards themselves and others
- Opportunities for social connection with others in similar situations
- Opportunities to share personal stories in a safe and validating environment
- Access information, knowledge and wisdom from other parents and caregivers
One for the Kids
Family Advocacy is an organisation that supports families of people with disability in order to promote and protect their rights. We will be presenting a workshop on inclusive education and advocacy in Shellharbour at the end of March
Date: Thursday 31 March 2016
Time: 9:30am – 2:30 pm
Location: The Shellharbour club
Cost: $15.00
Registration: https://theinstituteforfamilyadvocacyandleadershipdevelopment.formstack.com/forms/untitled_form4_copy_1
Below is the promotional flier or alternatively you can view it online through their events page.
Sailing on Kiama Harbour
Dave and Tamara run the KISS Arts Festival in Kiama | 30 April to 1 May
The festival is a circus/comedy festival but this year they want to get the community involved more.
One of their new attractions will be Sailability Shoalhaven who will bring as many of their boats as then can on 1 May and sail them around Kiama harbour.
Dave and Tamara are inviting disability organisations to come down and sail on the harbour in these amazing, custom boats.
There will be boats for all ranges of disabilities and it will all be free.
If this is something that you think you, your organisation or your members might be interested in, contact Dave ASAP on 0422914713 or contact@kissartsfestival.com.au
Illawarra Interagency 