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NATIONAL CONFERENCE  
Self-Directed Services and Personal Budgets: The Emerging Agenda
 
Melbourne 18-19 March 2009
Angliss Conference Centre

This national conference over two days will explore the emerging agenda of Self-Directed Services and Personal Budgets in social support, education and health care.

It is an event not to be missed for anyone with a passion for changing things in disability, mental health, aged care, early childhood intervention, child care, chronic illness self-management and education.

CLICK HERE to register

Keynote speakers include:
Dr Peter Shergold, Former Secretary, Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet, Macquarie Group Foundation Chair, Centre for Social Impact (photo);
Mr Robbi Williams, Convenor, In Control Australia
Dr Mark Parrish, Physician Asia Pacific, Microsoft Corporation.

The conference will have a strategic focus on implementing system change in these fields over the two year period 2009 and 2010.

Day 1 will outline the emerging agenda; and explore opportunities, impediments, and scenarios in various fields.

Day 2 will explore challenges in implementation, and seek solutions to these.

CLICK HERE to see the program.

      Who Should Attend? 

      The conference is open to anyone with a passion for system change in social
as   support, education and health care. Membership runs until June 30 2010, and
       conference participants are encouraged to become members in order to participate in
       ongoing implementation on a national basis.
      
       Generous member discounts are available for the conference, and participants
       may register for the conference and membership simultaneously.

      
CLICK HERE to register
 

Registration Fees (Cost includes GST)
  TYPE OF PARTICIPANT   Member Non-member

  Individuals and families (self-funded, not paid for by their employer) Free $66

  Groups (self-help, advocacy, community) $66 $220

  Service providers $220 $440

  Commercial (trainers, consultants, planners) $110 $550

  Government $220 $660

  Sponsors Free


Registration

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Further information

Vern Hughes 
0425 722 890
vern@partnerships.org.au

 
    

 

  OUR KEY AREASO

DISABILITY, AGED CARE , MENTAL HEALTH
Self-Directed Services and Personal Budgets
EDUCATION
Student-Centred Learning and Personal Budgets
HEALTH
Consumer-Centred Health Care and Personal Budgets
CONSUMER
MARKET POWER

Brokering Consumer Power in Utilities, Telecommunications

  DIARY

18/19 March 2009
National Conference, Melbourne. Self-Directed Services and Personal Budgets: The Emerging Agenda.
CLICK HERE for details.

NEWS
Making It Personal
This Demos Report from the UK on Persona Budgets and Self-Directed Supports provides an excellent overview of the In Control agenda CLICK HERE.

In Control Australia
In Control Australia has produced its first submission - to the National Disability Strategy consultation. CLICK HERE.
PROJECTS
A Personal Information Record for Every
Australian

Every person who has used services in social support, education and health care knows we need a consolidated personal information record.
CLICK HERE for more information.

Individual Learning Plans
Individualised learning should be a right for all children. CLICK HERE for more information.

Family Income Management Plans
Indigenous communities are not the only ones where Family Income Management Plans can make a difference. CLICK HERE for more information.

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