Next Wave NDIS

02/08/2022

Always great to get together with the Next Wave team! A fun day out at Pinot and Picasso releasing our inner artists and having a lot of laughs!

28/07/2022

Looking for a role in a great, disability friendly workplace? We're looking to add a Program Support Officer to our G&D team. Head to our website for more information.

28/07/2022

Advocates weigh in on a new plan for ending violence against women. Australian women are being put at risk of serious harm. Now, a major plan years in the making aims to solve the insidious problem.

"Women With Disabilities Australia executive director Carolyn Frohmader says she’s willing to wait a little longer to get the framework right."

“We need to make sure that those support services and prevention mechanisms and all those things are actually inclusive of everyone,” she said.

Read the full article: https://www.news.com.au/national/politics/advocates-weigh-in-on-new-national-plan-for-ending-violence-against-women/news-story/b15a6d9dcf524c058ff5d1a5ca0a72f3

[Image: Photo of WWDA Executive Director Carolyn Frohmader. Carolyn has short blue curly hair and wearing a black top and green beaded necklace. She is sitting, looking out a window with a bookcase behind her.]

28/07/2022

VALID is looking for people with lived experience of an intellectual disability for the role of a VALID8 Program Officer.

The role will involve:

• Helping services to make sure people with a disability have more choice and control in their home.
• Supporting services to have better ways of helping people with a disability to speak up about what is important to them.
• Talking to people with a disability about their service.
• Talking to staff about how they support people with a disability to speak up at their service.

The position is part-time, minimum 8 hours per fortnight and may include travel.

Look at the Job Description and Job Ad here https://valid.org.au/valid-self-advocacy/valid8-and-participant-empowerment/

Send your resume to rick@valid.org.au. You need to send your resume before Friday the 29th of July 2022

We look forward to hearing you

27/07/2022

At Next Wave, we support participants to select a recovery coach with lived experience or a recovery coach with learned knowledge of psychosocial disability and mental health.

Our Recovery Coaches support people to:
-develop and support recovery-enabling relationships for participants
-support participants with their recovery planning
-coach participants to increase their recovery skills and personal capacity
-ensure that other supports are recovery-oriented
-support engagement with the NDIS
-assist with plan implementation

​Next Wave NDIS Recovery Coaches will work with a participant’s family, carers and relevant service providers to implement a recovery plan.

14/06/2022

Find out how you can take part in advancing MND research and care in Australia. Through your support, we can work to improve the lives of those living with MND and drive forward research towards a cure.

04/06/2022

03/06/2022

A new government means new and positive changes to the NDIS.

Next Wave NDIS welcomes Bill Shorten as Minister for the NDIS, we look forward to the innovative and logical changes he advances.

Bill Shorten has vowed to crack down on providers overcharging for services claimed on the NDIS and clear the backlog of thousands of legal appeals.

16/05/2022

11/05/2022

A person with epilepsy is almost 10 times more likely to be diagnosed with autism than someone in the general population.

11/05/2022

Reconciliation is about strengthening relationships between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and non-Indigenous peoples, for the benefit of all Australians.

Learn more and get involved at www.reconciliation.org.au