Self-Directed Services and Personal Budgets
 

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DAY ONE - Wednesday 18 March 2009

8.30am REGISTRATION
9.15am Welcome and Opening Remarks
9.30am Self-Directed Services and Personal Budgets: Introduction to the Conference Agenda
9.45am Beginning: Snapshots from around the Country: Panel of five presenters

David Cunningham
Mary Reid
Fiona Anderson
Ian Hardy
Madeleine Ellis		  
10.30am The Big Picture:

Health Care Reform - Person-Centred Arrangements and Self-Directed Care - Paul Gross
11.00am MORNING TEA
11.30am The Big Picture (cont):

Disability Reform - Person-Centred Arrangements and Self-Directed Care - Belinda Epstein-Frisch

Aged Care Reform - Person-Centred Arrangements and Self-Directed Care - Ian Hardy
 
12.15am Keynote Address:

Consumer Empowerment, Technology and Money - Dr Bruce Ross, Microsoft Health, Microsoft Corporation
 
1.00pm LUNCH 
1.45pm

 Concurrent Sessions

Session A:

Lisa Minchin & Mike Jarrett OAM  Direct Payments in Victoria: a progress report.

 

Session B:

George Vassiliou  Self-managing your aged care package

Ian Bruce  Service recipient-directed care management in community care
2.45pm AFTERNOON TEA
 
3.15pm Keynote Address:

Technology Assisting Self-Direction - Siegfried Drews
 
4.00pm

Concurrent Sessions

Session A:

Margaret Ward  Family Managed Funds

Marielena Amat  Family Managed Funds: Disability Services Queensland

Val Johnson  Family Directed Services?: the Helping Children with Autism initiative
 

  

Session B: Workshop

David Cunningham  Turning the Tide: Consumer tendering to select service providers

 
5.00 pm CLOSE
7.00pm INFORMAL DINNER 

Speaker: Robbi Williams  Convenor InControl Australia

DAY TWO - Thursday 19 March 2009

8.30am REGISTRATION
9.15am Implementation: Challenges, Impediments and Solutions
9.30am   Keynote Address:

Self-Directed Services and Personal Budgets - Dr Peter Shergold, Former Secretary, Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet, Macquarie Group Foundation Chair, Centre for Social Impact
10.15am Infrastructure and Systems for Self-Directed Services and Personal Budgets - Vern Hughes
 
11.00am MORNING TEA
11.30am Concurrent Sessions

Session A:

Samuel Arnold  ICAN: Support Needs Measurement and its application to individualised funding

Robbi Williams  RAS: The Resource Allocation System support assessment model
 

Session B: Workshop

Joan Foley Building Consumer Leadership

 
12.45pm LUNCH
1.30 pm
Concurrent Sessions

Session A:  

  Siegfried Drews and Vern Hughes  Budget
  Holding Systems and Management 
 

Session B:

Sharon Barry  Support Your Way: The shift towards self-directed services in Victoria
2.15 pm Strategic Pathways - Three concurrent sessions to report back to final plenary
 
Session A:  

Service Providers - New Ways of Working

 
Session B:  

Government Funders - New Ways of Working
Session C:  

Intermediaries and Brokers - Roles and Functions

3.00 pm AFTERNOON TEA
3.30 pm  
Plenary – Advancing the Agenda  Report back from Strategic Pathways sessions

Panel of three presenters
4.30 pm CLOSE

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