My Choice Matters will empower Blue Mountains residents living with a disability to get the most out of their lives and navigate the National Disability Insurance Scheme at a workshop at Katoomba on April 4.
My Choice Matters is an independent organisation working with people with disability to live life their way and get the most out of the changing disability system. The NDIS will completely shift the way disability support is provided across Australia. People will have an opportunity to receive individualised support and funding, which is a significant change from the current system.
However in order to take full advantage of the NDIS, people with disability, their family members and carers will need to think in advance and prepare for their planning meetings.
This not only requires new skills and knowledge, but also new thinking and confidence. My Choice Matters aims to help people learn and practice new ways of doing things and develop skills in three key areas: choice, voice and control.
At the skills workshop facilitators discuss the NDIS and how setting goals can help participants make the most of the new system. It provides hands-on activities and take-home tools.
Workshops are free and open to anyone with a disability or who is a family member or carer. My Choice can supply interpreters, personal care and other assistance to make workshops as accessible as possible.
Adele Tashkin, who will run the workshop, travels all around the state seeing first-hand the benefits people are experiencing from being better informed about the NDIS.
“We give people the chance to really think about their lives and the things that are important to them as individuals, rather than just what is ‘on offer’. They start considering hopes and dreams that they had put to the side due to a lack of opportunities,” she said.
The workshop is on Tuesday, April 4 from 10am–2.30pm at Blue Mountains Cultural Centre, Katoomba. Register on the events page at www.mychoicematters.org.au or call 1800 144 653.
