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🌟 New Whitepaper Alert! Transforming Disability Housing with Marco Polo Portal 🌟 The NDIS housing sector is at a crossroads. Traditional approaches are failing both participants and providers. Rising vacancies, mismatched housemates, and mounting financial pressures are leaving the system broken. But there’s a smarter, participant-centered way forward. 🚀 Introducing our Whitepaper: "Disability Home & Living: Participants and Providers are Struggling" 🚀 This deep dive explores: ✅ Why current systems are unsustainable for participants and providers. ✅ How Marco Polo Portal leverages technology to match NDIS participants with compatible housemates and high-quality providers. ✅ The transformative potential of focusing on who you live with rather than just where you live. 💡 Spoiler Alert: Providers using Marco Polo Portal report fewer vacancies, greater participant satisfaction, and increased profitability. SIL participants gain control over their living arrangements—an essential step toward independence and inclusion. 🔗 Read the full whitepaper to discover how we’re creating better housing outcomes for people with disabilities: https://lnkd.in/gQr9Aecq Let’s build a future where choice, compatibility, and connection define the NDIS housing experience. 💜 #NDIS #DisabilityInclusion #MarcoPoloPortal #Innovation #NDISHousing #WhitepaperLaunch

Expression Australia and Bendigo Health are thrilled to launch the Business On-Demand Interpreting (BODI) app on Tuesday 28th January 2025. Both organisations have been working together since 2024 to make this app possible to overcome the gap in communication between healthcare staff and deaf patients. Through the app, an Auslan interpreter will be available within 3 minutes of request and will be able to facilitate communication between the deaf patient and healthcare staff. BODI will be in trial at Bendigo Hospital for the next 6 weeks. Deaf people who use the BODI app at Bendigo Hospital during the trial are welcome to provide feedback by emailing us at engagement@expression.com.au The BODI app was made possible through Deaf Regional Health, which is funded by the Department of Social Services. To learn more about BODI, visit www.expression.com.au/bodi

Please join us in congratulating Julian Trollor, who has been appointed a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) for significant service to people with a disability.

Minister Rishworth launching Australia’s Disability Strategy at Having a Say: “‘Nothing about us without us’ has been heard loud and clear.” A strong and interconnected self/individual/systemic advocacy presence is critical to support Govt. make this happen.

🌟 Exciting Leadership Opportunity: Director of the Disability Dialogue Our friends at Disability Advocacy Network Australia (DANA) Ltd are seeking a Director to lead an influential new project that puts lived experience at the heart of disability reform in Australia. About the Role: - This is a groundbreaking partnership between DANA, Inclusion Australia, Alliance20, and Melbourne Disability Institute - The successful candidate will shape and drive reform through authentic disability community engagement - Position exclusively open to people with disability (special measure under the Disability Discrimination Act 1992) 📋 View full position details: https://lnkd.in/g_zUzmvy Applications close 9am Monday 3 February 2025 🤝 Please share this opportunity with your networks - help DANA find the right person for this important role! ------- [ID: Now hiring! Director of the Disability Dialogue. We are now recruiting the project's first Director. For more information contact the recruiters at The Human Equation: Carol Lewis (0404 199 766) or Trish Mitra-Kahn (0450 065 865). Disability Advocacy Network Australia and The Disability Dialogue logo.] #DisabilityLeadership #InclusiveEmployment #DisabilityRights

Welcome to the Hidden Disabilities Sunflower network, Commonwealth Bank! 🌻 Thank you for supporting individuals with non-visible disabilities and helping create a more inclusive environment for all.

In 2025, the NDIS planning process is set to undergo the most significant structural changes in the Scheme’s lifetime. The new NDIS Act added a term to the NDIS jargon family - new framework plans. The legislation links new framework plans to needs assessments, which were a recommendation of the NDIS Review. Together, new framework plans and needs assessments will form the basis of our new planning system. New framework plans might be rolling out as soon as September this year. So, we've got a lot to get our heads around in a short amount of time. Fear not. Our latest instalment of the NDIS Act Explained series is dedicated to getting you up to speed on needs assessment and new framework plans. https://lnkd.in/gJWbwWiF

"Diversity is having a seat at the table, inclusion is having a voice, and belonging is having that voice be heard. When we feel belonging, we feel valued not for fitting in, but for everything that makes us unique." - Liz and Mollie on Instagram. Visual description: one side of the image reads "ideas people share when they do not feel belonging", followed by empty circles. The other side of the image reads "ideas people share when they do", followed by coloured-in, full circles. #Diversity #Inclusion #Belonging

This should not be missed. The NDIS Service Provider's Guide 2025 Are you navigating the complex landscape of the NDIS sector? Employers and business owners are facing significant challenges as a result of the recent changes to the SCHADS and Aged Care Awards. Join our webinar to learn your Fair Work and Work Safe obligations, insights into common employee issues effective management strategies, and the fundamentals of the SCHADS Award. #ndis #ndisprovider #registeredprovider #australia #ndiscommunity #peninsula #schardsaward When: 29 January 2025 at 11:00 am (AEDT) Location: Zoom Contact Us: 1300 835 409 events@peninsula-au.com 👇 👇 👇 👇 https://lnkd.in/gctaKW3W

Reposting to attach Judgment. Trigger warning: Death of a person with disability. The Federal Court of Australia has published its Reasons for Judgment (67 pages) in determining a civil penalty of $1,916,250 against Valmar Support Services over various breaches of NDIS quality and safeguarding requirements, some of which are associated with the death of one of its clients, Mr H. Rest in peace, Mr H. Her Honour criticises the agreed penalty amount, suggesting that it is too low (yet it is the highest penalty ever awarded about disability service provision across NDIS and WHS law in Australian history). The Statement of Agreed Facts at the end of the Reasons will be rich in lessons for us all; my reason for making these posts is not to blame, but to share lessons. #ndis #disabilityservices #quality #safeguarding