Creating home through host arrangements
This presentation explores host arrangements as a way of supporting people with disability to live ordinary, connected lives in community. Drawing on real stories, it will share the different ways host arrangements can work, including living with families or individuals, and how these relationships grow over time.
It will also reflect on journeys in which people have moved from a host arrangement to their own home, highlighting what made those transitions possible.
The session will offer practical insights into what matters when setting up a host arrangement, including building trust, matching well, and keeping the person at the centre. People will leave with a clearer understanding of how thoughtful, individualised approaches can support belonging, autonomy, and valued relationships.
Speakers
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Leanne Pearman
Leanne Pearman is CEO of the Australian Inclusion Group, with more than 35 years’ experience across disability and human services, including over a decade in executive leadership. She brings over 20 years’ experience in designing and developing individualised services with people with disability and their families, including individualised living approaches. She has led reform across policy, practice and service design at both state and national levels.
Leanne’s work has centred on supporting people with disability to live as citizens in their homes, at work, and in their communities, with valued, reciprocal relationships, autonomy, and the right support around them. This includes supporting the shift away from system-imposed congregate models towards supports built around the person, their culture, their community, and their life.
Leanne is a proud mum of two adult sons. She has a love of animals and is a long-time Comic-Con Supernova fan, enjoying the creativity, connection and sense of community it brings.