Participate Australia Now Offers NDIS Support Coordination the NDIS Provides Great Choice and Independent Service to You
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Participate Australia Spring 2017 Participate Australia now offers NDIS Support Coordination The NDIS provides great choice and independent service to you. We control but finding your way around have engaged an expert team who this new environment can be difficult. can assist you in understanding, Support Coordination is a service coordinating and implementing that can help you find and manage your NDIS plan. We consult with a supports to achieve your goals. variety of providers to ensure that Support Coordination can also help you get access to the best supports you negotiate and track your plan, and activities with any provider of so that it continues to meet your your choice, including Participate needs when circumstances change; Australia. Our own supports and and it can support you when activities can be tailored to suit your changes happen and your plan does needs when you need it, in small or not meet your needs anymore. larger groups or through individual support. If Support Coordination is not in your plan ask your NDIS planner Call now on 02 9799 4333 to talk about having it included to help you to our specialist team about the choose the right supports for you! options we can provide to help you meet your individual needs, or email Participate Australia offers NDIS [email protected]. Support Coordination as a new and Under a new roof Do Something! Day To provide safe and quality support, Do Something! Day is an our premises require constant initiative of NewsLocal, upgrading and maintainance. the charity DoSomething In the past two months we carried and ClubsNSW, whose out extensive roof renovations member clubs organised at our Croydon activities centre a range of events to give with grants from the Community back to the community. Building Partnership Program On this special day in July, (through Jody McKay, MP in Club Ashfield organised the seat of Strathfield) and The a tasty luncheon for our Raymond E Purves Foundation, participants and carers at who have funded us for yet another their VIBO Bistro. project. Thanks to their very Guests very much enjoyed generous funding, we can ensure this special treat and were activities and programs take place even featured on the cover of Inner West Courier with a big smile in the in a safe and pleasant environment. company of their hosts, Club Ashfield’s Function Manager, Natalie Rosalie, and Marketing Manager, Tijen Salis. Thank you Club Ashfield for hosting this event! Participate Australia Ltd 111 Edwin St North Croydon NSW 2132 A Message from the CEO PO Box 210 Croydon NSW 2132 ABN 39 136 853 895 Cooking Club goes Pro The first Annual General Meeting we are ensuring objectivity and ACN 613 814 654 of Participate Australia – and impartiality. This gives you the NDIS Provider 4050002920 In July and August, we were chicken schnitzel and gourmet Shadow Minister for Disability the 34th of our organisation – assurance that your needs and Telephone 02 9799 4333 given the opportunity to hold burgers. Services, was the guest of will be held on Wednesday, 18 aspirations are front of mind, and Facsimile 02 9798 5115 cooking classes for teenagers Stephanie gave up her free honour and presented each October. We will shortly send not our own interests. Email in a professional environment, participant with a Certificates of out separate invites to our AGM, time to run the classes on a On 25 September we will deploy [email protected] in the kitchen of our great voluntary basis. She carefully Completion. but please pencil the date in your our new enterprise resource supporters, Canterbury League diary. We’d like you to join us to Web selected easy to follow recipes We thank Canterbury League planning system. Our team, participateaustralia.com.au Club. and took time to demonstrate Club and Stephanie Azar for look back on another successful supported by two Directors with year and celebrate some of our Twitter The Club’s General Manager, every step along the way to their incredible community specialist expertise in this area of @ParticipateAUS Food and Beverage, Wayne establish a good rapport with spirit and for inviting our achievements. business, has invested significant Board of Directors Nolland, invited six participants participants, who each brought aspiring chefs into their We closed the 2016-2017 time and effort in specifying, to a series of cooking classes their own unique personality to business. We look forward to financial year with a small configuring and testing the President Glenn Ball Vice President Emily Dash with Executive Chef, Stephanie the classes. more great opportunities and surplus again after increasing system, and all employees have Treasurer Warren Dawes Azar, in a professional setting. collaborations with the Club. our working capital fund. This The program culminated undergone training in the past Secretary Rosemary King During the 6 weeks program, is already proving to be a good weeks. Nothing will change for in a graduation dinner for Directors Sandra Casinader participants learnt about safe investment, as our participants service users and carers in the Darren Dick the participants’ families to use of equipment and how to are transitioning faster than immediate future. If anything Penny Gerstle celebrate their achievements prepare a range of all-time anticipated and the government’s you should notice better response Genny Haines with a three-course dinner. favourites like apple crumble, block funding – which is now times and clearer communications Stephen Hodges Local MP, Sophie Cotsis, Mary McMahon paid in monthly instalments – in a few months, after initial Shaun Palmer is instantly reduced for every teething problems have been Rosa Saladino participant with an NDIS plan, addressed and our staff are Gil Thew even before their plan is activated. getting used to the new system. Staff Contacts As a result, some participants are Finally, we were pleasantly Chief Executive Officer accessing service after their block surprised by a visit to our Jerry McNamara 02 9797 5397 funding has ceased and before supported living program in Ryde Executive Manager, Community their NDIS funding is available, (RASAID) by the Assistant Minister Liaison leaving us temporarily out of for Disability Services, the Hon Erika Aravena 0481 720 056 pocket. Access to the working Jane Prentice, late in August. Chief Financial Officer capital ensures that we can pay Arranged by the Member for Susan Woodhouse 0402 069 310 our support workers even when Bennelong and great supporter Executive Manager, Strategy and this funding gap occurs. of RASAID, John Alexander, MP, Communications About 130 participants have the Minister met with some of the Peter Schneider 0401 039 022 already transitioned to the NDIS residents and their families and Manager, Corporate Services since July 1. The majority are toured the facility. Ms Prentice was Lorraine Baldacchino 02 9797 5304 satisfied with their NDIS plan, very much impressed with the high Executive Manager, Support and are already exercising choice standard of the complex and the Thom Calma 0421 744 708 in a way that was previously unconventional support model NDIS Support Coordination Sophie Cotsis MP, Stephanie Azar, Wayne Nolland and participants impossible. We are still running employed at RASAID. Jade Magaling 0432 910 661 free workshops on how to best Her visit comes off the back of our Intake prepare for the planning meeting, successful negotiations with the Tandip Bunait 0412 993 705 and if you’re not entirely sure NDIA for adequate funding for Assistant Manager, Accounts about your preparations for it, I safe and dignified support of all Eric Hong 02 9797 5309 encourage you to participate in residents of the RASAID complex. Participate Australia supports the one. Call us on 02 9799 4333 or We are delighted to have secured United Nations Convention on the email rsvp@participateaustralia. this commitment and are now Rights of Persons with Disabilities, com.au. able to focus on best practice and our employees are bound by We are now also registered to in this unique supported living the principles for which it stands. provide NDIS support coordination program. The Convention’s purpose is to promote, protect and ensure the to help you navigate the new full and equal enjoyment of all system and give you expert human rights and fundamental advice on achieving the goals of freedoms by all persons with The participants, their families and support staff your NDIS plan. As a provider of disabilities, and to promote support coordination, we have Jerry McNamara respect for their inherent dignity. to demonstrate to the NDIS how Chief Executive Officer For Art’s Sake 2017 On to hotdogs In June, we brought together artists Collaborate Art Prize was awarded legend and jazz musician, James Anthony Lo, 19 years old participant, and knows exactly what he of all abilities and celebrated their to Anthony Lo for his painting Valentine for volunteering to be our has taken the first prize award at this wants to do. He is both bold creative expression across a range ‘Shadowplay, Doughnuts Donuts’, MC and to Rowen Kelly of Kellys year’s For Art’s Sake exhibition. and fearless.” of mediums and diverse styles. This, a painting created in a workshop Property for undertaking the live Anthony worked with local artist Ro Anthony has been drawing the ninth For Art’s Sake exhibition, run by renowned print maker and auction. Cook to create ‘Doughnuts, Donuts’. and painting constantly since was the first one after our name artist, Ro Cook. Linda Arnull gave a free audio The Master of Ceremonies, James he was little. He has always change to Participate Australia. In The People’s Choice Award description tour of some of the Valentine of ABC radio, announced enjoyed anything tactile, all this context and with an extremely overwhelmingly went to Alex artworks, and we salute and thank Anthony as the winner and said generous gift from an anonymous Latham’s slightly controversial the art prize donor, also on behalf forms of arts and crafts and supporter, we invited entries from piece ‘Fashion’.