“Taking Control”
- what Individualised Funding would mean for you and your family
18 OCTOBER 2008 |
ABOUT THE CONFERENCE
What is Individualised Funding?
Individualised funding gives the person with a disability an alternative option for funding their service. The person establishes his/her needs and utilizes the resulting service plan to secure funding for the service. Then he/she chooses who supports them in the implementation of the plan and how the plan should be implemented. The person directs the service that is required, where it will be delivered and how it will be received. The individualised funding option ensures that traditional models of service delivery do not have to be mandatory to the receiver although it does not exclude them. It gives the person and all their family the option of being more involved in directing the services that will best support their needs. Coupled with other necessary best practices and parameters it can significantly enhance the quality of life of a person with a disability.
Conference Organisers
- National Parents & Siblings Alliance
- Sisters of Charity of Jesus & Mary/Muiriosa Foundation
Is this conference for you?
Do you have a family member with a disability? Are you a person with an intellectual disability or autism? Do you work with people with disabilities?
Have you ever wondered?
- are there alternative ways to fund services,
- are there alternative ways to provide supports and help for people with disabilities?
- if people with disabilities and their family members could be more in control of the ways their services are provided to them?
- if there are different ways to provide for the service needs of a person with a disability that will ensure that they have a good quality of life?
- are there new ways to make sure people with disabilities can develop lifelong friendships and an enjoyable life?
- In short, is there an alternative way to enhance and ensure that people with disabilities are in greater control of their lives, have choices and live their lives like everybody else?
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PRESENTATIONS
Why We're Here - The Vision:
What Happens in Britain:
- Steven Rose - Steven has worked with people with learning difficulties since 1974. He is Chief Executive of Choice Support, which is one of the first large learning disability providers in England to fully embrace the Self Directed Support Agenda. He is also Editor of Community Connecting magazine and a Director and founding member of the Association for Supported Living.
Alternative Service Solutions:
- Bernie McWilliams - David's Choice: A family governed service, Ireland. Bernie is currently involved in setting up living supports in Clifden for her son David, who has autism.
- Susan Taylor - Susan is a project worker with Vela Microboard Association, Northern Ireland. She is committed to the concept of empowering individuals to improve the quality of life for people with disabilities and their carers.
- Stephen Williams - Stephen is a parent of a person with a disability from Scotland. He has a lot of experience of individualised funding in Scotland.
- Vivien Soave - Sibling, England. Vivien's sister Donna has severe learning disabilities and autism with little to no verbal communication. She has carried around a label of being challenging when really just trying to have her feelings understood. She lived in residential care settings from 13 - 43 years. Now, she has her own home, staff team and a better life all round. Vivien will talk about how she achieved this.
- Vicki Cammack - PLAN, Canada. Vicki is someone who finds and implements innovative solutions in the social sector. She is a recognised Canadian source of inspiration, innovative ideas and demonstrable solutions related to community, citizenship and disability. Vicki is a co-founder of PLAN and co-author of 'Safe and Secure - Six Steps to Creating a Personal Future Plan for People with Disabilities'.
Where to From Here?
Proposal for Moving Forward
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