Restrictive Practices Workshop

Restrictive Practices Workshop
Date: Friday 30th June 2017 Cost: $165

Family Advocacy is hosting a one-day workshop to provide education around the implications of using restrictive practices. This will be highly relevant to anyone in the human services sector who is wanting to gain a deeper understanding of the implications that these practices have on the people they serve.

Please download the attached flyer here.

Visit family-advocacy.com/events/restrictive-practices-within-human-services/ to register.

Are you a carer who is about to meet with the NDIA about your child's NDIS plan?

Carers Australia has developed a Carer Checklist to assist unpaid carers to describe the support they provide during NDIS assessment and planning meetings.

The questions throughout the Carer Checklist prompt carers to think about what they need to tell the National Disability Insurance Agency (NDIA) in their initial or subsequent planning meetings. It is not compulsory, but will help the NDIA to understand the carer’s role, so that the support package allocated best meets the needs of the person with a disability and supports the carer’s role.

The Carer’s Checklist can be accessed at http://www.carersaustralia.com.au/ndis-and-carers/supportfor-families-and-carers/ or by clicking on the image to the left.

Volume 7 Issue 3/4 now available

The latest Journal of Mental Health for Children and Young People with Developmental and Intellectual Disabilities is now available. Highlights include:

• The Future of Our Children’s Mind, Spirit and Soul: Will the digital revolution destroy them or can schools grow them? by David Dossetor
• Notes from the 19th Society for the Study of Behavioural Phenotypes (SSBP) International Research Symposium by Peter Wurth
• The Medicine Cabinet: Atomoxetine by Judy Longworth
• Addressing cardiometabolic risk factors in people with an intellectual disability by Jessica Walsh, Professor Katherine Samaras and Professor Julian Trollor
• The 15th World Congress of the International Association for the Study of Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (IASSID) by David Dossetor
• IASSID Symposium on Quality of Life in Children with Intellectual Disability by Donna White
• A report on the inaugural meeting of the Bowral Mental Health Intellectual Disability Professionals Network
• Resource Spotlight: Carer Checklist by Carers Australia
• KidsQuit

Sensory Friendly Films at the Ritz (Randwick)

Randwick Ritz cinema are conducting monthly sensory friendly films for families living with Autism and other sensory needs. Sensory Friendly Films allow families to enjoy their favourite films in a safe and accepting environment with the cinema lights turned up and the sound turned down. Tickets only $10!

The next screening is on 12 November 2016.

http://www.ritzcinema.com.au/Promotion/Sensory-Friendly-Films 

Volume 7 Issue 2 now available

The latest Mental Health of Children and Young People with Developmental and Intellectual Disabilities is now available. Highlights include:

Engaging learners with complex learning needs: A review by Dr David Dossetor;
Intellectual disability mental health core competency framework;
The role of occupational therapy in behaviour sup-port work by Lucinda Mora and Susan Heiler;
Treatment of neurodevelopmental disorders: book review by Dr Meenakshi Rattan;
Insight into a mental health review tribunal by Jodie Caruana;
Reflections of a paediatric fellow on child neurodevelopmental psychiatry by Dr Meenakshi Rattan;
Meet Jessica report by the School-Link Team, plus much more.

Click on the picture above to open the full pdf or click here to access each article in a separate pdf.