Duration: 1 day
Target Audience: Disability sector workers and advocates.
Course Overview: Explores the areas of law most likely to be relevant to clients with an intellectual disability. The course introduces participants to the UN convention on the Rights of People with Disability, guardianship and financial management, diversions available to people with intellectual disability in the NSW court system, Apprehended Violence Orders and supporting victims of crime.
Additional Information: The course is run in an informative and easily accessible way.
Duration: 2 days
Target Audience: Disability sector workers supporting clients through the criminal justice system.
Course Overview: Participants will develop skills and awareness to enable them to better support clients who are defendants under arrest and in police custody or victims of crime and in court.
Duration: 2 hour session
Target Audience: Organisations looking at being inclusive of people with intellectual disability.
Course Overview: Looking at attitudes towards intellectual disability, analyses misconceptions about intellectual disability, looks at person-centred thinking and planning and ways to support self-advocacy.
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 hour session
Target Audience: Parents, carers and people supporting NDIS applicants who are appealing decisions by the NDIA.
Course Overview: This is a practical course, taking people through the NDIS appeals process, including lodging applications at the Administrative Appeals Tribunal.
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 session
Target Audience: Sector workers and People with intellectual disability and their carers.
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 hours or 4 hours *
Target Audience: Disability sector workers supporting clients through the criminal justice system.
Course Overview: Information sessions provide participants with an overview of the criminal justice system as it relates to defendants with cognitive disability and an understanding of accessing legal and support services for people with cognitive disability.
Additional Information: * The program is tailored to 2 or 4 hours depending on the needs of the target audience.
This is also run as a 1 day or a 2 day course provide participants with more extensive and practical knowledge and skills to effectively support a defendant with cognitive disability in their interactions with the police, lawyers and local courts, as well as supporting victims of crime with a cognitive disability.
Duration: 1 day or 2 days *
Target Audience: Disability sector workers supporting clients through the criminal justice system.
Course Overview: Providing participants with more extensive and practical knowledge and skills to effectively support a defendant with cognitive disability in their interactions with the police, lawyers and local courts, as well as supporting victims of crime with a cognitive disability.
Additional Information: * The program is tailored to 1 or 2 days depending on the needs of the target audience.
This is also run as a 2 hour or 4 hour information session and provides a high-level overview of the criminal justice system as it relates to defendants with cognitive disability and an understanding of accessing legal and support services for people with cognitive disability.
Duration: 1 day
Target Audience: Disability support workers, social workers, NDIS support planners and coordinators, FACS case workers and managers, out of home care service workers and anyone with an interest in supporting parents with an intellectual disability through Community Services involvement..
Course Overview: An interactive workshop providing legal and non-legal support to parents in child protection matters. The workshop draws upon IDRS’s extensive and specialised experience in this area.
Duration: 2 hour session
Target Audience: Parents, carers and relatives of people with intellectual disability.
Course Overview: Looking at and relatives looking at ways to provide for people with intellectual disability in their wills.
