Start: Wed 29 Apr, 2026 09:30 End: Wed 29 Apr, 2026 11:30
Location: Online, via Zoom.
Presented by: Janet Klees
A pre-conference webinar about creating a home
We are so excited to announce a pre-conference event that will set the stage for our upcoming Imaging Home conference in May! We’ve invited Janet Klees to present a webinar on Wednesday, 29 April. If home is on your radar, you won’t want to miss this session.
What you’ll learn from this presentation
Families already know about home, community, and an ordinary good life. However, the forces of today’s society often make us spend far too much time and energy on figuring out home and housing that appear complex, hard to access, and better left to the professionals.
This session is more of an exploration or reminder of what families already know – the vast array of ordinary home and housing pathways that we have all sought out and developed for many years. Shifting our minds to understanding that we can want ordinary, we can follow common pathways to having a home of one’s own (with companionship or not) is the toughest part of this challenge. But this session, filled with stories of ordinary families doing just that, could be the start of finding out that home, housing and support are not daunting tasks to be put off for another day, but exciting challenges that you need not take on alone.
Find out about an Imaging Home Family Group with many successes, hear ordinary family stories, and most of all, learn that changing the family mindset toward expecting home in ordinary ways is the greatest asset in the housing journey.
Register for the pre-conference webinar
Event details
- Wednesday, 29 April 2026
- From 9:30 until 11:30 am AEST
- Online via Zoom
- This event will be recorded, and a replay will be available to watch on our website shortly afterwards
- This is a free event, but you must register to attend.
Good to know
- We strongly recommend that you attend the webinar if you can, as Janet welcomes questions and will be happy to answer them
- We also recommend that you watch this event before attending the Imagining Home Conference in May 2026
- We are able to offer this event for free thanks to funding from the Australian Government Department of Health, Disability, and Ageing.
When is the Imaging Home conference?
- The Imagining Home conference will be held in Canberra on Wednesday-Thursday, 20-2 May 2026.
- Early bird registrations will open soon!
- Visit this page to learn more.
Janet Klees
Janet Klees has been involved in the lives of people with disabilities, their families, and community allies for about 40 years. For nearly 10 years, Janet has been the Executive Director of the Durham Association for Family Resources and Support (DAFRS) in a region near Toronto, Canada. DAFRS works in partnership with families to imagine, plan, and implement good lives in the community for people with disability. They utilise a principled, family-led, one-person-at-a-time, and SRV-anchored approach.
Prior to this, Janet coordinated the family-governed Deohaeko Support Network of seven families for over twenty years. She credits this work for giving her much of her practical experience.
Janet is a talented writer and has published three books directly rooted in the Deohaeko experience (We Come Bearing Gifts, Our Presence Has Roots, and Deohaeko Decades). She also writes various articles and other documents to support her work and thinking.
Janet continues to meet, share and learn with families and their chosen organisations in many parts of the world, with a focus on
- principled strategies to bring about roles, relationship, and places of belonging
- working together with families in real partnership, and
- helping families to build powerhouse support teams and welcoming, inclusive communities.
