Duration: 2 hour session
Target Audience: People with intellectual disability and their carers.
Course Overview: Looking at Centrelink payments, Power of Attorney, Enduring Guardianship, Financial Management Orders and Guardianship Orders.
Duration: 2 week course (2 hours per session)
Target Audience: School and TAFE students, and adults within Transition to Work programs, Disability Day Programs.
Course Overview: Looking at the law, how people with Intellectual Disability get into trouble with the law, rights around arrest and going to court and where to get legal help.
Additional Information:
Getting Arrested – What To Do is a training toolkit which can be used as an educational resource for the purpose of educating people with an intellectual disability or other cognitive disability about their rights and responsibilities when coming in contact with the police as a suspect or when under arrest.
Train the Trainer Workshop is a two hour workshop available to introduce workers and teachers to the subject matter and educate them on how best to use the Getting Arrested – What To Do toolkit with clients or students.
Duration: 2 hour modules over 4 to 6 weeks
Target Audience: People with intellectual disability.
Course Overview: Looking at human and legal rights in an interactive and supportive manner. There is a focus on the development of self-advocacy skills and on developing an awareness of the responsibilities that accompany rights.
Additional Information: Clients are also encouraged to think about their personal support networks and are introduced to relevant support agencies.
Duration: 2 hour session
Target Audience: People with intellectual disability their carers and sector workers.
Course Overview: Looking at practical tips for supporting a client at police stations, specifically looking at rights whilst under arrest, the law in relation to bail, accessing Legal Aid, the process of preparing evidence and appearing at court.
Duration: 2 hour modules over 4 to 6 weeks
Target Audience: People with intellectual disability.
Course Overview: Looking at sexual safety and cultivating respectful relationships.
Additional Information:
This program is run in collaboration with Multicultural Disability Advocacy Association (MDAA), the Local (Liverpool) Network and with specially trained peer educators. The program was developed by Deakin University to raise people’s awareness and change the way people think and act in relationships.
Duration: 2 hour session
Target Audience: People with intellectual disability their carers and sector workers.
Course Overview: Looking at practical tips for supporting a client at court, working with lawyers, seeking diversion orders (specifically Section 32) and preparing a support plan for court.
Duration: 2 hour session
Target Audience: People with intellectual disability living in group homes or entering into service agreements with disability service providers.
Course Overview: Looking at contracts, deciding on services, reading the agreements, common pitfalls, how to request changes to service provision or ending agreements and taking legal action if the agreements are unfair.
Additional Information: This course is also open to carers and support workers who are assisting people with intellectual disability.
Duration: 2 hour session
Target Audience: People with intellectual disability, particularly those who live in group homes or work in supported employment.
Course Overview: Looking at legal issues, what is an AVO, what are the rules around an AVO, what to do if you get an AVO, how to get support and legal advice as well as victim support.
Duration: 2 hour modules over 4 weeks
Target Audience: People with intellectual disability, particularly those who live in group homes or work in supported employment.
Course Overview: Looking at human rights, advocacy, rights and responsibilities where you live and work, rights around the legal system and getting arrested
