Families Supporting Families

21/11/2025

Support RDA Raymond Terrace & Lower Hunter and have fun! Win-win! 🤩

21/11/2025

FSF members we need your help to ensure that FSF can continue in 2026! Please join us for our AGM on Thursday 27th November from 10.30am to 12.30pm at Club Merewether.

Being a part of the committee gives a unique opportunity to shape the activities of FSF. No involvement is too small, we greatly appreciate all the help we can get. We're all in this together, to give each other support.

Please RSVP by Monday 24th November to info@familiessupportingfamilies.com
If you are unable to attend but would like to get involved in any way, please contact us by DM or email.

Thank you to Port Waratah Coal Services and Club Merewether for generously supporting this event. 🙏

19/11/2025

Celebrate International Day of People with Disability - Australia on December 3rd at Swansea Lakeside Holiday Park’s Open Day! Meet Have Wheelchair Will Travel, enjoy a FREE sausage sizzle and live entertainment featuring Chance2dance Australia Inc, Beat It Music and Movement and a petting zoo!

Explore the park facilities including the swimming pool, splash park, new sensory rooms, accessible safari tent and accessible villas.

Registration required. Register at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/international-day-of-people-with-disability-swansea-lakeside-holiday-park-tickets-1811765091159?aff=oddtdtcreator

17/11/2025

Final chance to have your say on the Disability Standards for Education. Survey closes tomorrow, November 18! For current or recent Autistic students or their parents/carers.

To complete the survey head to: https://www.surveyhero.com/c/snyrmbk3

16/11/2025

Another example of the NDIS bringing stress and hardship to people with disabilities and their families that the NDIS was originally set up to help. Ultimately this will result in increased costs to the healthcare system when carers and families burnout and can no longer cope.

Darren and Louise Catton have spent years curating a care plan for their daughter Mary, but now face an uncertain future after her NDIS funding was cut dramatically.

15/11/2025

Please share this UOW flyer with anyone who think might be interested in helping this research (parents or allied health professionals). Thank you!

14/11/2025

Notice of 2025 Annual General Meeting

Please join us for our 2025 AGM which will be held at Club Merewether on Thursday 25th November from 10.30am to 12.30pm. This is a great opportunity to connect with fellow carers over lunch, share your ideas and help plan activities for 2026.

RSVP by Monday November 24th via email to info@familiessupportingfamilies.com

If you are unable to attend the AGM but would like to be a part of the committee or help out in any way, please send us a message or email. Please get in touch if you would like information on what is involved in being a committee member.

A BIG Thank You to the 2025 committee for all your work this year. 👏👏👏

We are very grateful to Club Merewether for donating room hire costs and to Port Waratah Coal Services for their support of this event. 🙏

12/11/2025

Have your say in this survey about improving services for unpaid carers. Survey closes 19th November.

Visit the
National Carer Strategy survey at
https://consultations.health.gov.au/disability-and-carers-group/consultation-on-national-carers-strategy-actions-1/

Have you accessed services to support you in your caring role?

We are seeking feedback from unpaid carers across Australia through our survey to help improve our support services.

Your feedback in our survey will:
🧑‍🤝‍🧑help improve counselling, mental health support and respite for unpaid carers
👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 better support unpaid First Nations carers, culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) carers, LGBTQIA+ carers, carers with disability, carers of veterans and young carers.

To have your say in our survey, please see the comments below.

10/11/2025

Thank you to presenter Carol Greive, speech therapist at Firstchance and to Lenore and Newcastle Middle School for another great session in the second workshop of the series about “LAMP - Language Acquisition Motor Planning” on Friday! 🙏

09/11/2025

08/11/2025

Free one-hour webinar on Customised Employment from Imagine More on Monday, 10 November from 12:30 to 1:30 pm.

Register at:
https://imaginemore.org.au/events/kickstarting-ce-2025-11/

📢 Happening next Monday!
✅ Kickstarting Customised Employment: 15-minute steps to get started
🍽️ Lunchtime online webinar
🗓️ Monday, 10 November from 12:30 to 1:30 pm AEST

In this free one-hour webinar, Fiona McIntosh will introduce you to Customised Employment, a proven, person-first approach to job creation that starts with the individual, not a job ad.

This session is ideal for
❇️ families of students with disability
❇️ families of young people who have already left school
❇️ anyone wondering how to begin the employment journey without NDIS support or a service provider.

Learn more and register on our website:
https://imaginemore.org.au/events/kickstarting-ce-2025-11/