Programs co-designed to build your capacity by developing your process for informed decision making with the inclusion of trusted friends and support. Our programs start with a free consultation to help us understand your goals and supports.
Program Overview
Employment Support
- We help people access or maintain work through supported employment guidance
- Our programs also focus on building life skills, decision making, disability awareness and understanding the disability community
Support Coordination and Life Transitions
- We provide Recovery Coaching delivered by people with lived experience to help you organise supports and build confidence
- We also offer guidance through major life stages and life transitions
Community Participation and Mentoring
- We support social, recreational and community engagement
- Our mentoring programs are available one-to-one or in small groups and cover self-management, employment, budgeting, leisure and spiritual or sensory storytelling
Custom Programs and Children’s Services
- Personalised planning for holidays, events or projects
- Inclusive education support, school meditation and social/recreational coordination
- Business and provider support: service reviews, staff/manager mentoring, disability inclusion training
Circles of Support and Advocacy
- Build networks to reduce isolation and support decision making
- Individual and systemic advocacy, including tribunals and legal support
Business and Consumers: Consultations and Training
Trainer Portfolio: George Ayoub
George has been a pioneering force in disability activism in Australia for more than four decades. He has led by example through consulting, education, mentoring, and the design and implementation of programs created and delivered by people with disability from culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) backgrounds. His contributions include establishing the Push and Power Sports Association and supporting the development of Physical Disability Councils across Australia. He has also played a key role in building peer networks that now thrive independently, including in online communities.
Check out some of George’s achievements below:
George was one of the founders of Push and Power Sports.
Linked with Independent Living Institute
George co-owned Ayoub & Stevens Consultants who established Physical Disability Council Australia. It is linked with the Independent Living Institute.
George was recognised in the finalist list for the Disability Leadership Institute
We offer supported Business training to build an Inclusive Community
For Businesses/Providers
Disability Consultancy:
- Evaluating Service delivery: We will assist you to identify gaps in your service delivery. We can support you to evaluate your participants social capacity while upholding their human rights, relevant to a Disability Inclusion Plan and addressing the Australian Disability Strategy.
FOR BUSINESS / PROVIDERS
Disability Consultancy
- Evaluating Service Delivery
- Performance Review
Supporting your business to improve measures of customer satisfaction, specifically your PWD and NDIS participants.
- Staff mentoring
Working with individuals and groups of your staff members, meeting monthly with set goals and targets over a planned duration, such as regular check-ins.
- Manager mentoring
Working with Managers to develop an inclusive approach to Disability Community, with an extended insight from a person with Lived experience and 45 years in the disability sector.
TRAINING & DEVELOPMENT
Disability Awareness (Professional) Packages
- How to work in diverse communities
Development Focus – Identify cultural gaps in services and rectify them.
- Inclusive Practices
Development focus – Disability Rights and Understanding; Shifting attitudes towards to more inclusive practices.
- Disability Inclusion – Broadening Your Scope Workshop 1 – 8 hour workshop over 2 sessions. Focus on developing your Inclusive practices on how services can be implemented.
- Communicating Effectively to People with disability
Development Focus – Develop staff perceptions with a better understanding of where to begin to communicate effectively to people with disability.
- Customised Development Packages
Through consultation, specific issues and gaps can be agreed upon to then create a development package.
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