In the uncertain climate of COVID-19, policies and support systems have been put in place to support people with disability but how will this impact the future of the interface of the NDIS with health systems? Steven will provide an insight into how the NSW Ministry of Health are working alongside the NDIA to improve on the interface, strategies and initiatives in a physically distancing world, including the increased use of technology to improve access by PWD to services including health services.

Ensuring that people with disability have a seat at the table in planning for the natural disasters and pandemics that Australia faces. Australia and internationally, how people with disability are working to ensure that we are prepared for any sort of interruption to our day to day lives.

Ensuring that people with disability have a seat at the table in planning for the natural disasters and pandemics that Australia faces. Australia and internationally, how people with disability are working to ensure that we are prepared for any sort of interruption to our day to day lives.

Leonie, parent, carer and advocate will draw on the lived experiences of caring and self-managing her son. Leonie will share her knowledge on what it is like to live with disability and will provide practical tips on how she self manages the plans, adapting to COVID-19 as well as ensuring inclusivity and how to battle stigmas.

• How are children with permanent disabilities covered by legislation?
• The difference between a chronic illness and permanent disability for children and how this affects the their NDIS support and their school time
• What if the disability isn’t permanent? How are the children covered then?
• How we ensure that all children with non/permanent disabilities are supported to get the best education and if time is missed, this is given back

This address will draw on the lived experience of Pauline Luchetta, advocate and mother to Cassidy. In understanding her story, attendees will have the opportunity to gain first-hand knowledge of NDIS self-management, how this is intertwined with partial plan management and when successful the achievements it can bring.  Pauline will also acknowledge the challenges faced and how these can be avoided through practical tips and advice for participants self-managing.

What to do when a provider takes on a new client and subsequently identifies that the person needs a higher level of support (i.e. 2-1) than there is funding for in the plan; what happens when the parent/family is not willing/able to obtain funding for higher level of support that is necessary to deliver services safely – what are a provider’s options? What are provider’s obliged to do?

• Resuming driving has been associated with positive social, economic and health outcomes
• SROI analysis places values on outcomes that are not typically values in traditional economic evaluation (Return on investment ROI analysis is different from social return on investment analysis SROI)
• Identify how many dollars of social value are created for every $1 invested
• A co-investment model is adopted to account for people with disabilities’ investment in their own return to driving

Join Civic as they facilitate a client led conversation about the journey (and challenges) faced when finding the right home

• Specialist Concierge Service
• Partner and working alongside existing frameworks
• Pushing the boundaries and what other options that they can offer

• Choice and control can’t exist unless it’s controlled choice and moving away from binary options
• Support LACS to ensure they are involved in the work that they are originally set out to do with Community Centres rather than plans
• Suggestions on how NDIS could improve their funding in this scope and safeguarding from preventing harm