Disability Support Workers Conference

Working Well: on paper AND in practice

FRIDAY, November 28, 2008

8:00 - 8.45am

Registration

8.45 - 9:15

Copland Theatre:
Convenors' Welcome Address: Victorian Disability Sector
'Disability Support Worker Awards 2008' recipient acknowledgement

9:15 - 10:00

Keynote Address: Laraine Masters Glidden. St. Mary's College of Maryland (Dept of Psychology) & Georgetown University (Centre on Health and Education). USA. 'Families and Disability: Lifespan Changes and Implications for Intervention.'

10:00 - 10.30

Morning Tea - Registration Area

10.30 - 12.00 - Morning Sessions

• Copland Theatre - Autism Workshop
  Being Heard. Lawson (Repeat)
• Commerce 1 - Resources and Services
  1. Effective service coordination. Hodgson. PACT NZ.
  2. Values & Quality: A marriage of convenience. McGhee. Office of the Public Advocate.
  3. University training and DSW's- SA & Beyond. Matthews. Flinders Uni
• Commerce 2 - Self Advocacy
  1. Advocacy for people with severe disability. Jamieson. Advocacy Tasmania.
  2. Self Advocacy-Knowing our rights. Mccabe. Yooralla Pathfinder program.
  3. Being a Leader. Forsyth. VALID
• Commerce 3 - Working Well Workshop
  Making a difference in a world of compliance. Robson. Civic Residential Services.
• WOOD - Planning Support
  Behaviour Support Plans: Planning for Success. Webber, Carracher, Chaffey & Chan. Office of the Senior Practitioner
• Theatre D Arts - Everyday Practice Workshop
  Safe and healthy eating and drinking. Making the rhetoric reality. Moulder. Disability Enterprises.
• Theatre E Arts - Challenges Workshop
  Help! This clients doing my head in. Warwick. Concepts4 Change. (Repeat)

12:00 - 1:00

Lunch Break - Picnic Bag

12.15-1pm

• Copland Theatre: Lunchtime Viewing Autism : The Musical (Documentary). Part 2.
• WOOD Theatre: Lunchtime Viewing of ‘Love and Kisses DVD- Family Planning NSW’. 40 Mins

1.00 - 2.30

Copland Theatre:  What is the single greatest hurdle to providing effective support? Come to the Reality Café Panel Session and you may just find out. Hosted by Andrew Hollo. Discussion panel.

2.30 - 3.00

Afternoon Tea

3.00 - 4.30 - Afternoon Sessions

• Copland Theatre - Workshop
  What is Individualisation? An international study.
  Workshop Staub. St John of God Accord
• Commerce 1 - Everyday Practice Workshop
  Chemical restraint of people with ID & training needs of DSW'S. Donley & Tzanakis. Office of the Senior Practitioner
• Commerce 2 - Legal Issues Workshop
  "I could tell you but I'd have to shoot you" - Privacy versus Secrecy in Disability Support Work.
  Jones. Comrec. (Repeat)
• Commerce 3 - Chronic Illness/ Parkinson's Disease.
  More than the shakes.
  How support groups help.
  Loss and grief issues.
  Parkinsons Vic
• WOOD - Life Stories
  1.'Says Who?' Life stories and people with intellectual disability. O'Shea. LaTrobe Uni
  2. Young Mum's with an Intellectual disability: A Journey. Patterson. Disability Services NW Tas.
  3. More than 'just' a support worker: One mother's perspective. Richards.
• Theatre D - Working Well
  1. Challenging behaviour in workplace.
  Worksafe VIC (Repeat)
  2. Getting things done in the way I like. Yooralla
  3. Foundation of person centred practice. VALID.
• Theatre E - Workshop
  Professional Studies in Disabilty. Disability Studies at RMIT University

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