NewsAFDO announces free NDIS workshops for community organisations
10 May 2016
The Australian Federation of Disability Organisations (AFDO) Disability Loop project is proud to announce that our free NDIS workshops for community organisations are now being rolled out nationally, starting in Melbourne.
NDIS Understanding Workshops
10 May 2016
The NDIS Understanding series are ‘Train the trainer’ workshops (free) that provide the information and resources organisations need to inform people with disability and families about the NDIS. These are particularly important now that the ‘Participant Pathway’ is changing with the ‘transition to full Scheme’ in July 2016.
These workshops are ideal for Melbourne based staff and volunteer trainers from community information, capacity building, and advocacy organisations who work directly to inform people with disability and their families.
NDIS Opportunities Workshops
10 May 2016
The NDIS Opportunities series of free workshops have been developed to resource and assist small community organisations as they navigate the significant changes the new market environment brings.
These workshops are ideal for Melbourne based CEOs, senior managers and Board members, to help build the capacity of their organisations.
A surge or a tsunami? The number of NDIS Participants during the trial phase compared to the full roll out
19 April 2016
The National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) started three years ago, in July 2013. Since then, about 30,000 people have become NDIS Participants. From July 2016 the trial phase of the NDIS will be over, and the transition to the full scheme begins. This will also happen over three years - but this time about 430,000 new people will become NDIS Participants. It’s a big, big difference.
IAC in focus: the Intellectual Disability Reference Group
19 April 2016
This is the third article in our 'IAC in focus' series of articles which covers the very important work of the NDIS Independent Advisory Council (IAC). The IAC is an independent group of disability experts that give the NDIS advice from the perspectives of people with disability, family and carers and service providers. In 2015, the IAC started the Intellectual Disability Reference Group (IDRG), to help the roughly 70% of NDIS Participants who have some form of intellectual disability.
NDIS Board changes – do they matter?
23 March 2016
The state, territory and federal ministers for disability meet four times a year. They met recently to talk about the NDIS. Some of the things that happened in the meeting were unexpected, and made people feel worried about the future of the NDIS.
Queensland NDIS roll out timeline
23 March 2016
The National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) roll out has been announced for Queensland. This page will help you find out when and where the NDIS is coming to you if you are in Queensland.
Co-design wasn't meant to be easy
23 March 2016
Co-design basically means that the people responsible for designing something do it with advice from the people who will use it. Co-design with the NDIS is great news for people with disability. But who are the 'designers' of the NDIS? And have they been using co-design?
The NDIS and the national budget
2 March 2016
Recently, a very big national newspaper wrote stories about how Australia doesn't have enough money to pay for the NDIS. This sounds very frightening but it isn’t true. Read our article for all the facts.
IAC in focus: helping people with disability live an ‘ordinary life’
2 March 2016
This is the second article in our 'IAC in focus' series of articles which will cover the very important work of the NDIS Independent Advisory Council (IAC). The IAC is an independent group of disability experts that give the NDIS advice from the perspectives of people with disability, family and carers and service providers. They have told the NDIS how they think it could be improved and the NDIS has listened. The IAC has given the NDIS advice in the areas of planning, capacity building, co-design, reasonable risk, and workforce development.