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Building Creative Tensions: Developing a Citizen Advocacy Program for People with Mental Handicaps
John O'Brien is a leader in organisational change in the US in order to get better quality community support for people who have disabilities. In this booklet he describes the Georgia Advocacy Office's experience in planning and implementing the means to represent the interests of people who have disabilities.
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Be nice
Dr. Marsha Forest, an American educator who developed the concept of "Circles of Friends" in America wrote this poem entitled "be nice". She says this is not the time to 'be nice' but rather the time for 'passion and fire'. ". . .
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Aging and accommodation issues for people with a disability
This paper, prepared by the Disability Program Section of the Department of Health, Housing and Community Services, looks at strategies designed to widen the choice of housing available to aging persons with a disability.
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Consumer participation: A challenge for service providers
Current service philosophies of Social Role Valorisation, the advent of the self advocacy movement and new legislation have all contributed to the current emphasis on consumer views being sought and used in shaping service delivery to ensure it is individualised.
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Caring for Children: Sharing the Care of Children with Intellectual Disabilities: A Parent - Care giver Partnership
This article was written by Christine Baxter of the Deakin University Department of Intellectual Disabilities which conducted an evaluation of the Shared Family Care program which operates in Victoria.
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Challenging Integration: A Critique of Disability Policy
This paper analyses the way in which the notions of 'integration' and 'normalisation' have been incorporated into disability policy to the potential political and economic benefit of government, and to the possible detriment of a significant number of people who have disabilities.
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Full marks for attendants
The article describes an attendant care scheme based on individualised consumer control and worker participation. The author, an attendant of the Disability Attendant Study Incorporated in Victoria, maintains that attendant care is the key to de-institutionalisation and gives people with disabilities greater control over their lives and time.
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Issues paper on consumer focused funding approach and individual needs analysis
ACROD NSW published this paper in 1992 to raise issues about the Consumer Focused Funding Approach (CFFA), touted as empowering individuals. ACROD states that empowerment of individuals is a principle in itself and does not necessarily equate with the CFFA. The paper stresses that CFFA is not brokerage.
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Service brokerage - another magic bullet
This paper is the result of an international teleconference on Service Brokerage and the questions which arose about various issues. Brokerage is a process which sees parties either buying or selling services having been brought together through a broker.
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Brokerage
These notes were taken by Wendy McGlynn, a parent who attended a seminar in 1991 on Brokerage by Michael Kendrick (Director of the Institute for leadership and Community Development, Massachusetts). They list 12 points which Kendrick cited as difficulties with the service brokerage system. Keyword: Individualisation
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