Conference Sponsors
MAJOR SPONSOR
We are a not-for-profit organisation committed to providing a safe and supportive environment for vulnerable people in our community. Our services specifically support children and young people needing foster care, people with a disability, and people with a mental health issue, including those from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander backgrounds.
We operate throughout Australia and are now established in New Zealand. We pursue the philosophy that positive, healthy relationships are essential for people in care to feel safe and have an opportunity to improve their lives.
Our focus always has been that our clients should receive care within their community, not outside of it, and that the healthy relationships around them should come first. We believe the most effective and most appropriate method of providing our services is to empower and support individuals, organisations and communities in providing the services they need.
MAJOR SPONSOR
WELCOME RECEPTION SPONSOR
NOVA Employment and Training has been in operation since 1990 and today is an industry leader in the provision of specialist employment assistant for adults, with intellectual disability, seeking open award wage employment of their choice in their community. NOVA also runs a successful Transition to Work Program and Registered Training Organisation that delivers nationally recognised qualifications. NOVA receives most of its funding through the Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations.
DELEGATE NAME TAG SPONSOR
Oak Tasmania welcomes Delegates, Exhibitors, Contributors and Sponsors to the 44th Annual ASSID Conference.
Oak Tasmania has been providing care, programs, services & employment opportunities to people with disability since 1953.
Today, we are an independent, not-for-profit organisation specialising in the provision of day services; supported accommodation and independent living support; employment in one of five vibrant business services (Australian Disability Enterprises); and offer a range of training and development activities to disadvantaged Tasmanians.
As one of Tasmania’s leading social enterprises, we empower people to become active and equal citizens of our society and to ‘Bridge the Gap to Independence.
FASCIA
National Disability Conference Funding Program
The Organising Committee for the 44th ASSID conference has been successful in securing funding of $4300.00 from The National Disability Conference Funding Program. This funding is being utilised to support an international Keynote Presenter with a disability and a person in the entertainment industry with a disability, in order to enrich the quality of the conference program for all delegates and to allow the participation of these speakers.
We have provided a reduced “concession registration” fee to assist other delegates with a disability to attend.
KEYNOTE SPEAKER SPONSOR - ROBERT MARTIN
NOVA Employment and Training has been in operation since 1990 and today is an industry leader in the provision of specialist employment assistant for adults, with intellectual disability, seeking open award wage employment of their choice in their community. NOVA also runs a successful Transition to Work Program and Registered Training Organisation that delivers nationally recognised qualifications. NOVA receives most of its funding through the Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations.
KEYNOTE SPEAKER SPONSOR -DENISE LEEMBRUGGEN
WISE Employment is a not-for-profit organisation that offers specialist employment services, with offices in Victoria, New South Wales, Tasmania and the Northern Territory. We provide free placement under Job Services Australia and Disability Employment Network and we are a registered training organisation. We reinvest our surplus funds into innovative projects and programs that benefit the most marginalised and under supported sections of our community.
TRADE EXHIBITORS
Life's for Living Inc. is a South Australian, non-government, not-for-profit disability support service. We support people with disabilities to independent lives in the community; we also provide outreach and other specialised support services. Our Research and Development innovations include the dynamic ‘What I’d like you to Know about me!’ resource- www.aboutme.org.au. This is a unique online tool developed specifically for people with disabilities of all ages, their families and the services that support them.
We are a not-for-profit organisation committed to providing a safe and supportive environment for vulnerable people in our community. Our services specifically support children and young people needing foster care, people with a disability, and people with a mental health issue, including those from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander backgrounds.
We operate throughout Australia and are now established in New Zealand. We pursue the philosophy that positive, healthy relationships are essential for people in care to feel safe and have an opportunity to improve their lives.
Our focus always has been that our clients should receive care within their community, not outside of it, and that the healthy relationships around them should come first. We believe the most effective and most appropriate method of providing our services is to empower and support individuals, organisations and communities in providing the services they need.
Informa Healthcare serves the research needs of the scientific and academic communities and the "good practice" needs of healthcare professionals. Our portfolio includes over200clinical medicine books published each year and over170peer-reviewed journals, with market leading titles. We are delighted to count ASSID's prestigiousJournal of Intellectual& Development Disabilityas part of our publishing portfolio in Australia.
Contact: Jane Woolnough, Publishing Director Australia
Informa Healthcare
Level5, 11 Queens Rd.
Melbourne, Vic, 3004
Tel: +61 (0)3 9945 7056
Fax: +61 (0)3 9866 8822
Ozmates Travel is an internationally Licensed Travel Agent specialising in Holidays for people with a disability. We have been successfully taking people with Disabilities to destinations all over Australia and internationally for over 21 years.
If you are looking for adventure and a great holiday we can cater for those people who prefer to travel in a group or individually and provide caring qualified staff.
Your next holiday is only a phone call away
Oak Tasmania welcomes Delegates, Exhibitors, Contributors and Sponsors to the 44th Annual ASSID Conference.
Oak Tasmania has been providing care, programs, services & employment opportunities to people with disability since 1953.
Today, we are an independent, not-for-profit organisation specialising in the provision of day services; supported accommodation and independent living support; employment in one of five vibrant business services (Australian Disability Enterprises); and offer a range of training and development activities to disadvantaged Tasmanians.
As one of Tasmania’s leading social enterprises, we empower people to become active and equal citizens of our society and to ‘Bridge the Gap to Independence.
Disability Enterprises provides services and support to people with intellectual disabilities and complex health care needs and to their families.
Community Living Service: 7 homes throughout the Blue Mountains, Disability Support Workers and Registered Nurses provide 24-hour care.
Leura Day Options: Community, leisure, social and learning options for adults.
Blueprint Family Support Project: information, resources and support to families caring for a child with complex disabilities.
Megalong Positioning Service: innovative customised positioning and mobility equipment.
www.disabilityenterprises.com.au
The Independent Living Skills Inc. (ILS) is a not-for-profit organisation which develops, produces and distributes resources to support disadvantaged people in the community. The ILS has over the last 25 years developed a range of resources to assist and support people with an ID to live more independent lifestyles.
Formerly based at RMIT University, ILS Inc is now an independent entity. Please visit our website www.easycookbook.org
ILS has produced four ‘Easy Cook Books’. Another resource - One Step at a Time – a poster set - pictorially aids Home Skills from personal hygiene to the Use of Appliances.
ILS Inc is currently developing the following resources.
- Easy Cookbook 5 Lifestyle - Includes 30 recipes & a Gardening DVD - growing vegetables for people with ID.
- Training program –to develop skills in carers and disability support workers to effectively use all our resources thus achieving the desired outcomes. It will be offered initially in Victoria .
The above resources will be completed by March 2010 but the DVD & a sample Easy Cook Book 5 – Lifestyle and a recent Training Program video can be viewed on our stand during the conference.
People First NZ
Nga Tangata Tuatahi
Self-advocacy Organisation
“Nothing about us without us”
People First members prefer to use the term ‘learning disability’ Rather than intellectual disability.
There are People First groups all over the world and throughout New Zealand.
The national and local governments and service providers ask People First to help them make sure the best services are provided for people with a learning disability. We also offer ‘Learning How To Speak-up Courses’ to all people with learning disability.
The People First self-advocacy organisation is ‘user-led’, with assistance. We show society how much people with learning disability can do if we are given the chance. We also work out good ways to support people with learning disability.
We are very proud of what we achieve. It is powerful for others to see us running an organization ourselves – it changes people’s whole expectation about what people with learning disability can do.
COMMUNITY HEALTH SUPPORT MANUAL
An evidence based manual for training and competency assessment of careworkers
This evidence based health support manual is designed to be used by care workers, nurses and related organisations and industries as a resource to assist in the development of health care plans and inform the process of training and competency assessment within the community environment.
This manual will serve as a useful resource to assist the training and assessment of care workers and can be utilised as a vehicle to drive quality provision of care within the community setting.
Totally prepared by a team of Clinical Nurse Consultants with extensive industry experience in both the aged and disability care sectors, It conveys a strong commitment to professionalism and the provision of equitable and quality services incorporating contemporary evidence based research.
The manual has been developed also as a resource for care workers undertaking health tasks as part of the competency training and assessment process. Each procedure has been reviewed in relation to the care worker scope of practice.
PRICE
Community Health Support Manual (hard copy) $495.00 (GST inc)
Community Health Support Manual (CD - PDF) $495.00 (GST inc)
Quantum Technology is Australia’s leading manufacturer and distributor of technology for people who have a print disability (people who are blind, vision impaired or have a learning disability).
We distribute Australia's most comprehensive range of assistive technology options for people with a print disability. Our range of services includes assessment and recommendation of assistive technology solutions, training and support. We work closely with individuals, education departments, employment agencies, non profit and service organisations.
Quantum Technology Pty Ltd
PO Box 34 Southland Centre, Cheltenham, Vic, 3192 Australia
Tel: +61 3 9545 4190. Fax: +61 3 9585 3977
NOVA Employment and Training has been in operation since 1990 and today is an industry leader in the provision of specialist employment assistant for adults, with intellectual disability, seeking open award wage employment of their choice in their community. NOVA also runs a successful Transition to Work Program and Registered Training Organisation that delivers nationally recognised qualifications. NOVA receives most of its funding through the Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations.
IDEAS is widely recognised as the leading information provider in our field and provides a range of high quality information services and products for people with disability and people with age related disability, their families, carers and other supporters. As a clearinghouse on disability we capture information with specialist expertise, experience, community and/or industry knowledge and contacts and then filter, interpret and disseminate it on request through a variety of methods - via our toll free telephone line, our website, electronic and hard copy newsletters and our Disability expos. Access to our service is via our telephone line 1800 029904.
