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Safegaurding the Future Conference Replay
Mon 23 Sep 2024, 9:00am - Mon 28 Oct 2024, 5:00pm
Online via Imagine More memeber's hub
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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.
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.
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.
For more information about this event, visit: http://imaginemore.org.au/events/safeguarding-the-future-conference-replay/
