Update, Issue 84, Winter 2018: People with disability: Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander perspectives
7 June 2018
The Winter 2018 journal offers information and perspectives around Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and disability.
Contents include:
- Editorial – By Susan Helyar, Director, ACTCOSS
- Speaking with Damian Griffis, CEO of First Peoples Disability Network Australia
- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and intellectual disability – Extract from communitydoor.org.au
- Angela’s story – the providers let me down – From ACTCOSS’ Stories of Transition
- Carers ACT celebrate launch of Reconciliation Action Plan – By Carers ACT
- Free autism support for families in Canberra – By Positive Partnerships
- Knights of Nowrania: Creative writing from a young Aboriginal author – Introduction by Julie Moore, creative writing & illustration by Liam Ingrey
- Social and Economic Wellbeing of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People with Disability – Extract from ABS publication
- NDIS Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Engagement Strategy – From NDIS website
- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Community Bus – By Ian Corey, Senior Manager, Flexible Transport Office, Transport Canberra
- Unfinished business: Art exhibition
- Disability Employment Provider Expo – 3 August 2018
- NAIDOC Week: 8-15 July 2018
- Links to information and resources: FASD, Aboriginal prisoners with disabilities, NDIS, & sign language
- ACTCOSS staff farewell