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Annual Report 2019-2020 1 Access Annual Report 2020 AMENDED21 TOPRINT.Qxp Layout 1 20/01/2021 08:32 Page 4 Racheli Naparstek Access Annual Report 2020_AMENDED21_TOPRINT.qxp_Layout 1 20/01/2021 08:32 Page 1 Annual Report Cover Image: Harley Rose 2019-2020 Access Annual Report 2020_AMENDED21_TOPRINT.qxp_Layout 1 20/01/2021 08:32 Page 2 Access Annual Report 2020_AMENDED21_TOPRINT.qxp_Layout 1 20/01/2021 08:32 Page 3 Contents History, Mission & Vision President’s Report Racheli Naparstek – A Participant’s Story CEO’s Report Daniel and Joshua Szwarc Memorial Scholarship Program Overview The Access Team Dani Mahemoff – A Volunteer’s Story Highlights of the Year David James – A Participant’s Story Accountant’s Report Hillary Malkinson – A Volunteer’s Story Acknowledgements Partner With Us Annual Report 2019-2020 1 Access Annual Report 2020_AMENDED21_TOPRINT.qxp_Layout 1 20/01/2021 08:32 Page 4 Racheli Naparstek 2 Annual Report 2019-2020 Access Annual Report 2020_AMENDED21_TOPRINT.qxp_Layout 1 20/01/2021 08:32 Page 5 History, Mission & Vision History Vision Access Inc. (Access) partners with people The Access vision is for the full inclusion of with disabilities to achieve goals in areas that people with disabilities as valued and are important to us all – education and contributing members of our community. Our employment, social connectedness, health and values as an organisation are: fitness and hobbies and passions. We do this inclusion by recognising that mainstream approaches • The of people with disabilities in the wider community; are often not ideally suited to differing abilities and thus try to find more creative, supportive • Excellence in delivery and standard of and personalised solutions to encourage services; greater success. We also recognise that often, the barriers faced by people with • Innovation in finding creative approaches which promote confidence and skill building; disabilities have little to do with their actual ability and more to do with • The empowerment of people with societal misconceptions. Accordingly, Access disabilities. works towards ‘demystifying’ disability, fostering belonging and helping our community appreciate the value of diversity. Access was formed more than 30 years ago by parents of children with disabilities who believed their voices (and those of their children) were not being heard. What originally started as an advocacy group transitioned into service provision as parents felt that the needs of their child were not being met, especially in the Jewish community and in the ‘post-school’ stage of their children’s lives. Today, Access focuses primarily on meeting the challenges faced by those with disabilities as they move on from the more prescriptive and supportive framework provided by the education system. Mission Working within a Jewish cultural context, our mission is to promote the rights and interests of people with disabilities, empowering them to maximise their potential and participate as equal citizens in Zac Chester making Okonomiyaki with Australian society. Nitza Marom during his 1:1 Cooking Skills program Annual Report 2019-2020 3 Access Annual Report 2020_AMENDED21_TOPRINT.qxp_Layout 1 20/01/2021 08:32 Page 6 The Access year commenced with programs in full swing and an expanded participation rate, President’s thereby extending our impact to participants and their families. Our Annual General Meeting in August 2019 saw us welcoming new Board Report members and it was business as usual, or so we Vicki Factor thought, until the early months of 2020 announced the arrival of the Covid-19 pandemic and its pernicious effects, wreaking havoc across the entire world. Shortly prior to the first lockdown in March, Access was able to successfully conduct our Annual Charidy Giving Campaign resulting in an injection of much needed funding to ensure the delivery of our programs in the coming year. Once again our matching major donors and the community at large demonstrated their support for our important work in changing the lives of people living with disabilities. As luck would have it, Access was one of the last organisations to conduct a campaign before restrictions were introduced, making close physical proximity a distant memory. With the growing threat of the spread of Covid-19, the third week in March saw us take the painful decision to suspend all physical programming to ensure the safety of our participants, staff and volunteers. Given the critical need for continued social connection for our participants this decision was particularly heartbreaking as we contemplated the potential effects of isolation on our disability population. Our staff moved quickly to stay in regular contact with our participants, their families and our volunteers as we deliberated on how Access could best respond to the crisis. I am so very proud to report that Access staff, already under the stress of potential job losses and fear of the pandemic, banded together immediately and to use a current buzzword, “pivoted” to online programming to meet our ongoing requirement of service delivery. A suite of new programs was developed to suit online training and as I write this report, Access has in place a robust and creative spread of online opportunities that allow our participants to learn new skills and connect with their co-students, volunteers and Access staff. Access Online has received a great deal of positive feedback from participants and families and it may be that going forward to a post pandemic future some of these programs can be maintained for those who prefer online delivery. 4 Annual Report 2019-2020 Access Annual Report 2020_AMENDED21_TOPRINT.qxp_Layout 1 20/01/2021 08:32 Page 7 Certainly, Access Online has enabled us to bring conferred in recognition of community groups in in new participants who reside out of our the City of Glen Eira who have significantly catchment area and who would otherwise be contributed to the local community. unable to physically attend our regular classes. We are now looking at funding opportunities As we witness the universal changes that this which would allow us to scale up online pandemic has brought, I can assure the programming to extend our reach into the community that, despite the challenges, at community going forward. Access some things never change: the dedication of our Board and staff, the continued support of Whilst the current focus since March has been our loyal volunteers and above all the resilience centered on the Covid-19 pandemic, the months displayed by our participants, for whom we prior to the crisis were focused on a number of continue to work tirelessly. These things give me initiatives and achievements for which we are also great comfort as we move forward in this justly proud. Apart from the increase in uncertain time and I look forward to the ongoing participation which I have previously referred to support of everyone who appreciates the value in my introduction, and highlighted in our CEO of Access in our community. report, Access ran our popular Weekly Pop Up Café that received over 1000 visitors and put a spotlight on the abilities of our participants to engage in and deliver hospitality services. The general enthusiasm and joyful vibe that was created by the weekly experience of people coming together for a meal in our café was palpable and I look forward to the time when the Pop Up Café again becomes a regular fixture on our calendar. The Access Bakery program continued the sale of biscuits and some specialised catering as did the Access Espresso program, where our trained and in-training baristas prepared hot drinks to a standard that would make any barista proud. By directly engaging with community members in the Pop Up Café and in the sale of hot drinks and baked goods, customers become much more cognisant of the ways in which people with disabilities can be trained and skilled in an employment context and add value to organisations in the hospitality field. Our CEO’s report has also highlighted the ongoing and new collaborations with other organisations across a number of projects this year. These partnerships are an important part of extending our impact both in the Jewish community and the wider community as well. Collaboration facilitates the exchange of ideas, increases our community engagement and expands opportunities for our participants. We are determined that these projects continue, notwithstanding the challenges of the pandemic, and indeed we will continue to actively search for new projects in the coming months. Recognition for the ever increasing impact of our services and community engagement came earlier this year with Access being the recipient, jointly with Impact, of the City of Glen Eira’s Hugh McNab at our 2020 Charidy Campaign Community Group of the Year. The award is Annual Report 2019-2020 5 Access Annual Report 2020_AMENDED21_TOPRINT.qxp_Layout 1 20/01/2021 08:32 Page 8 Racheli has been a participant at Access for approximately six years and has taken part in the Racheli Hospitality, Life Skills, Art Studio and Healthy Me programs. She is currently attending the Access Naparstek Online 1:1 Cooking Skills and World Travel Wednesday Programs. A Participant’s Story Racheli is a kind, friendly and extremely caring person, who connects well with people and loves to socialise. She joined Access to meet new people, be part of the community to gain and develop skills to become more independent. Racheli also loves theatre, dancing, acting, singing, playing the piano and cooking. She loves spending time with her family and friends and has wonderful knowledge of Jewish culture and traditions that she often shares with the group. Through Access, Racheli has gained knowledge in many areas, such as money handling, customer service, cooking and helping to run a restaurant. Racheli is proud to be able to apply what she has learned at Access to her jobs outside of Access. Before the Covid-19 pandemic, Racheli was working at the Malthouse Theatre, the National Theatre, Chapel Off Chapel and a local falafel restaurant.
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