Start: Mon 23 Sep, 2024 09:00 End: Fri 29 Nov, 2024 17:00
Location: Online in the Members' Hub on the Imagine More website
You may often worry about how to safeguard the future of your family member with disability and who will ensure their good life continues when you are no longer around. This conference aims to answer this big question – and many others – by providing information, strategies, and practical tips about safeguarding the short-term and long-term future of people with disability.
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About the Safeguarding the future conference
The key themes of this conference include
People keep people safe
- Nurturing neighbour relationships, friendships, and Circles of Support
- Exploring the nuances of relationships/friendships
- Supporting people with an intellectual disability to navigate relationships
Support for decision-making
- Helping families and chosen allies support people with disability to engage in everyday decision-making.
- Understanding advocacy that respects self-agency
Siblings carrying the Vision forward/Siblings as vision-keepers
- Observing different ways in which siblings of people with disability are involved in their family members’ lives
Financial security
- Exploring themes of maintaining employment, sustaining a micro-enterprise, and efficient financial planning.
The unsavoury administrative necessities
- Navigating wills, trusts and guardianships
Self-direction
- Being the natural authority of your own life.
- Staying in the driver’s seat and not handing over to services.
Valued social roles act as a safeguard
- Understanding what a valued social role is and how developing them is an effective safeguarding strategy.
Our speakers include parents, siblings, advocates, allies, and people with disability from across Australia and overseas. Together they’ll show you how people with disability can live full and inclusive lives that are safeguarded well into the future.
See the full list of speakers and presentations
Where to watch the replay
The conference is available in our Member’s Hub, giving you 24/7 access to each presentation. Watch some or all of the sessions and download helpful resources to strengthen your understanding and support your safeguarding journey.
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For how long will the replay be available?
Access to the replay closes at 5:00 pm AEDT on Friday, 29 November 2024.
Good to know
- This is a free event