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SUMMARY:Bairnsdale Peer Action Group Launch
DESCRIPTION:Come along to the online launch of the Bairnsdale Peer Action Group in honour of International Dy of People with Disability. \nPeer Action Groups provide peer support and encouragement for people with disability to: \n\nNetwork with other people experiencing the same situations\, needs and issues.\nLearn to make NDIS supports work to achieve personal goals and become more able to make decisions and choices\nCreate relationships and friendships that empower and create confidence • Increase opportunities for recreation\, work\, and community participation\nDevelop self-advocacy skills and learn to access independent advocacy support when needed\nDo projects together to improve and promote more inclusive communities for everyone\n\nWe hope you can come and celebrate with us. \nFor more information and RSVP: Contact Annette annette@valid.org.au or 0407 375 633 \nSEE FLYER FOR MORE INFO
URL:https://valid.org.au/event/bairnsdale-peer-action-group-launch/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Building Community
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SUMMARY:2020 Dulcie Stone Writers Competition Award Ceremony
DESCRIPTION:You are invited to attend the 2020 Dulcie Stone Writers Award Ceremony where our winners will be announced\, and all writers will be presented with certificates. Our winners will also read selections from their work. So\, come along and join us to celebrate the work of the 2020 Dulcie Stone Writers Competition entrants. \nThe theme for the 2020 Competition was: A Good Life: Are we there yet? \nThe Dulcie Stone Writers Competition is an annual writing prize open to people with intellectual disability. The Competition is designed to showcase the voices of people with intellectual disability and recognises the lifetime contribution of Dulcie Stone to services for people with intellectual disability and writing. \nOn Zoom https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82998303380?pwd=RzBSM1RUem5ueVJvOVdTRTFZMFIxZz0 \nPlease RSVP to Heather or Paul at VALID by the 9th of November\, 2020 \nEmail: heather@valid.org.au or paul@valid.org.au
URL:https://valid.org.au/event/2020-dulcie-stone-writers-competition-award-ceremony/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Building Community
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SUMMARY:Inclusive Community Development Network Online Forum
DESCRIPTION:“Whose community is it anyway – building on peer support to shift power towards neighbourhood democracy.”\nThe Inclusive Community Development Network ICDN invites you to this exciting  online forum to hear Simon Duffy from the Centre for Welfare Reform in UK share his insights and experience in building disability power in communities\, both locally and nationally. \nThis event is online and you can join by pressing the LINK \nMeeting ID: 819 4575 2348\nPasscode: 855936 \nAbout Simon Duffy   \nSimon Duffy is the founder and Director of the Centre for Welfare Reform ( https://www.centreforwelfarereform.org )  and the international coordinator of Citizen Network. Simon is best known for inventing personal budgets and for designing systems of self-directed support and works as a consultant and researcher with local social innovators and national governments. \nSimon began work in the NHS and then went to work with Choice Support\, where he led innovative work in social care on individualised funding and brokerage. After being a Harkness Fellow in 1994\, Simon went on to found Inclusion Glasgow in 1996 and\, following this\, he helped establish several new organisations in Scotland\, including Partners for Inclusion and Altrum. \nFrom 1999 Simon began to develop self-directed support\, as a system to reform the organisation of social care In 2003 he led the development of individual budgets and self-directed support in England as CEO of In Control. This work led to significant changes in social policy in England and Scotland\, and in 2008 he was awarded RSA’s Prince Albert Medal\, and in 2011 the SPA Award for outstanding contribution to social policy. \nSimon has written extensively on moral\, political and social issues. Some of his key publications include Unlocking the Imagination (1996)\, Keys to Citizenship (2003) Women at the Centre (2011) A Fair Income (2011) and Peer Power (2012) and The Unmaking of Man (2013). Simon is also an Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the University of Birmingham’s Health Service Management Centre.
URL:https://valid.org.au/event/inclusive-community-development-network-online-forum/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Building Community
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SUMMARY:VALID Performing Arts Peer Action Group
DESCRIPTION:The VALID Performing Arts Peer Action Group presents:\n10 @ 10\n10 Questions at 10 0’clock is an opportunity for people who have a passion for performing to hear from people about their experience and love of being a performer or creator in the performing arts industry. Over the next few months we will be inviting leading actors\, performers\, singers\, musicians and theatre industry professionals to join us for an in depth and very personal look at the performing arts across a diverse range of theatre and performing arts groups and organisations. \nOur inside stories from leading professionals will aim to inspire a love for the art and craft of performing. \nThe presentations are also designed to help inspire a more inclusive performing arts community while we dream our way out of isolation. \nWe are excited to announce that our next guest speaker is Aria award winner Deborah Conway. \nDOWNLOAD FLYER \nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/82365483187?pwd=d21QaVU4WWI5Qk1QR0haVk14SHhpUT09\nPasscode: 499047
URL:https://valid.org.au/event/valid-performing-arts-peer-action-group-2/
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CATEGORIES:Building Community
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20200828T100000
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SUMMARY:VALID Performing Arts Peer Action Group
DESCRIPTION:The VALID Performing Arts Peer Action Group presents: \n10 @ 10 \n10 Questions at 10 0’clock is an opportunity for people who have a passion for performing to hear from people about their experience and love of being a performer or creator in the performing arts industry. Over the next few months we will be inviting leading actors\, performers\, singers\, musicians and theatre industry professionals to join us for an in depth and very personal look at the performing arts across a diverse range of theatre and performing arts groups and organisations. \nOur inside stories from leading professionals will aim to inspire a love for the art and craft of performing. \nThe presentations are also designed to help inspire a more inclusive performing arts community while we dream our way out of isolation. \nMelissa Slaviero\, Clem Baade and Nilgün Guven from FOG Theatre will be answering your questions. \n10@10 FOG Flyer \nZoom link \n 
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SUMMARY:Inclusive Community Development Network Webinar
DESCRIPTION:For our last online network meeting in April we had Peter Kenyon from Bank of Ideas as a speaker.    Peter addressed the topic – How Can We Build Community Capacity for Inclusion and Connection During and Beyond COVID-19? An edited recording of this meeting will soon be available to all who are interested in catching up on this presentation. \nFor our second online meeting we are really pleased to have Carol Blessing from Cornell University speak to us about the challenges of supporting people with disabilities to move from clientship to strong and dynamic roles in citizen leadership. \nCarol Blessing\, LMSW has over 30 years in the field of disability services in both direct practice and management capacities.  In 2000\, she joined the faculty at the Yang-Tan Institute on Employment and Disability in the ILR School at Cornell University where she leads system’s impact projects aimed at supporting the full inclusion of people with disabilities in typical community life.  Throughout her career she has worked with individuals living with intellectual and/or developmental disabilities\, including those incarcerated in New York maximum security prisons and with individuals living with psychiatric disabilities in state institutions. \nCarol developed the landmark Citizen-Centered Leadership online series (www.cclds.org)\, an international leadership development theory-to-practice program.   She is the author of several publications\, including co-authoring Conversations on Citizenship and Person-Centered Work (2011).  Carol co-designed the Framework for Planning©\, a person-centered planning approach to supporting people in finding positive pathways into their future through employment and other valued social roles. \nIf you are planning to attend please RSVP to david@valid.org.au to give us some idea of numbers for the day. \nJoin Zoom meeting \n 
URL:https://valid.org.au/event/inclusive-community-development-network-webinar/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Building Community
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20200807T100000
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SUMMARY:VALID Performing Arts Peer Action Group
DESCRIPTION:The VALID Performing Arts Peer Action Group presents: \n10 @ 10 \n10 Questions at 10 0’clock is an opportunity for people who have a passion for performing to hear from people about their experience and love of being a performer or creator in the performing arts industry. Over the next few months we will be inviting leading actors\, performers\, singers\, musicians and theatre industry professionals to join us for an in depth and very personal look at the performing arts across a diverse range of theatre and performing arts groups and organisations. \nOur inside stories from leading professionals will aim to inspire a love for the art and craft of performing. \nThe presentations are also designed to help inspire a more inclusive performing arts community while we dream our way out of isolation. \nThis session we are excited to have Annie Bourke – Producer Malthouse Theatre to join us and share her experiences and knowledge within the industry. \n10@10 EMAIL Malthouse flyer \nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nZoom Link
URL:https://valid.org.au/event/10-at-10/
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CATEGORIES:Building Community
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SUMMARY:Dulcie Stone Writers Competition
DESCRIPTION:To celebrate 21 years of Having a Say the theme for the 2020 competition is: A Good Life. Are We There Yet? \nWhat does it really mean to live the good life? \nNow is the chance to tell your story about what life really means to you. \nThe Dulcie Stone Writers Competition is open to people with intellectual disability. It is designed to showcase the voices of people with intellectual disability and recognises the lifetime contribution of Dulcie Stone to services for people with intellectual disability and writing. \nFull details about the Competition including timelines\, criteria\, prizes and entry forms\nare available from VALID and Writers Victoria. \nWorks can be of any length up to a maximum of 1\,000 words or a storyboard of up to 3 x A4 pages of drawing. \n\nTwo ways to send your Application Form\nEmail your application to heather@valid.org.au\nPost or drop off your application in person (during business hours 9am – 4pm Monday to Friday) to VALID\, 130 Cremorne Street Richmond\, 3121\n\nCompetition entries close at 5pm\, Friday 24 July\, 2020. \n  \nFurther information and application \n\nReturn to Home
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