Voice for Choice

28/11/2025

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Sometimes parents don’t need more parenting programs and capacity building, they need someone to remind them they’re doing as well as anyone humanly could in their circumstances and to take it one day at a time while we advocate for adequate support.

28/11/2025

We're officially heading into the Silly Season!
It's a great time to create a plan to manage stress, and remind us of our strengths.

This week was one of the most rewarding for us, professionally, this year.
We have built confidence and resilience with a family to start actioning long term goals.
We had the privilege to stand with another family to meet a very challenging goal to reconnect with their past.
A final gift was bushwalking with a courageous visionary that is literally walking the walk back to wellbeing and self determination.
Our commitment to advocacy and specialist skill development has provided us these opportunities to share in our clients trust.

This year showed us that consistency, learning, balance, and design thinking create meaningful work and personal relationships. We believe this is the foundation for purpose and meaning for our work and our clients lives.

Feel free to reflect on your experiences and achievements as you travel the last steps towards 2026. 🥳🙌

28/11/2025

Time is running out! Free Wills Week ends December 1, which means this is your last chance to write your will for free with Safewill this year.

A will gives you peace of mind, knowing your wishes will be honoured and your loved ones looked after. It only takes a few minutes to complete online and it’s completely free until Monday December 1.

Just follow these simple steps:

1. Visit: https://bit.ly/3Mtw7pC

2. Follow the guided steps to complete your will online.

3. Sign and store your will securely.

21/11/2025

Have your human rights been respected, protected, and promoted in 2025?

Take ’s national Human Rights Survey designed by and for people with lived experience.

Complete the survey by 31 December. https://buff.ly/iFk2KEm

21/11/2025

Worried your teen might be struggling with their mental health?

ClearlyMe® is a free mental health app for 12–17-year-olds, co-designed with teens and experts at Black Dog Institute.

Explore the support ClearlyMe® provides 👇 – it’s a safe space to help them cope.

📲 Download free on the App Store or Google Play 👉 https://bit.ly/4bOQhVU

21/11/2025

21/11/2025

20/11/2025

Join us this International Day of People with Disability (IDPwD) for a national online conference designed by and for people with disability.

The program includes an exciting line-up of disability advocates and activists, leading the way in creating change.

A Voice of Our Own is a chance for our community to come together, connect, celebrate achievements and discuss our future.

📅 Wednesday 3 December 2025

🕐 1:00pm – 2:30pm (AEDT – NSW, VIC, TAS and ACT)
🕧 12:30pm – 2:00pm (ACDT – SA)
🕛 12:00pm – 1:30pm (AEST – QLD)
🕦 11:30am – 1:00pm (ACST– NT)
🕙 10:00am – 11:30am (AWST – WA)

🔗 Register now: https://buff.ly/gaYNdDE

11/11/2025

Great resource for upcoming u16s social media changes

11/11/2025

11/11/2025

Change.
A new NDIS boss. Formerly 2IC for Aged Care reform. Will be interesting to see his priorities in the next 6 months.
A client left us after 15 months, a really wonderful person that we will be cheering for on the sidelines.
We have found our own support people to keep being able to advocate for our community.

Hmm...
Sector advocacy creation of News like headlines to get attention.
The acceptance that support roles are like retail/hospitality and begin and end with the hours allotted. This is human services!
Ending long term support relationships without any feedback or references, or even a personal response to show the recognition of support for you. ChatGPT etc isn't okay here.
What is happening with support coordination?

Yes!!!
Women's Pain being recognised formally.
Better networking in the sector.
Seeing clients make leaps they didn't think they were capable of.
Understanding our value as a business and not feeling apologetic for raising the bar.