Disability Coordination Office ACT - Negotiating the Maze

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 Advocacy for Inclusion Newsletter Issue 13 Aug 2007 (347.05 KB)

www.sprc1.sprc.unsw.edu.au/ASPC2007/abstract.asp?PaperID=75

The transition from school to further training and employment is generally seen as a crucial aspect of the life course, but one that can differ across different socio-economic groups. The Brotherhood of St Laurence's longitudinal study, the Life Chances Study, provides data to explore the experiences of a diverse group of Australian-born young people. The study commenced in 1990 with 167 children born in that year. By the end of 2006 some of the participants, now 16 year olds, were making crucial decisions about their futures.

The paper draws on both the longitudinal data and the new data of stage 8 of the study to explore:

Disability ACT and the Citizens Advice Bureau are continuing to develop a new online ACT Disability Services Directory.  The directory will be a fully searchable database that will provide easily accessible information with regard to disability serivces in Canberra and its surrounding region.

Disability ACT and Citizens Advice Bureau are seeking information on local businesses who 'go that extra mile' for people who have a disability to be part of the web-based resource.

The ACT Council of Social Services (ACTCOSS) has moved. 

All phone numbers and email addresses remain the same.

But ... their fax number and postal address have changed.

"The Things We Got Done - ACT Disability Advisory Council: Four Year Report to the Community" report was presented to Katy Gallagher MLA, ACT Minister for Disability and Community Services on 26 June 2007.

The 33-page report contains information about the Council and its key achievements including work in the following areas: