The Disability & Arts Transition Team (DATT) and CAN SA are presenting a Grant Feedback Workshop. This will be a free workshop for those applying for funding programs.
Wednesday 10 March 2010, 10am – 4pm
Restless Studio
Community Arts Network SA
234a Sturt St Adelaide
(Enter off Arthur St)
9 March 2010
8231 0900
Please also view the flyer.
The City of Marion Community Grants Program is now open.
Grants of up to $2,000 and $5,000 are available in 4 categories:
For more information, or to obtain an application form visit:
Web: www.marion.sa.gov.au
Email: council@marion.sa.gov.au
Phone: 8357 6850
Applications close on Friday 9th April, 2010
This national conference over two days will explore the emerging agenda of consumer-centred health care.
It is an event not to be missed for anyone with a passion for reforming our health system so that consumers and their families are at the centre of the system – in practice as well as in rhetoric.
The venue is Angliss Conference Centre in Melbourne’s CBD, corner of LaTrobe and Kin Streets, close to public transport and a range of accommodation options.
Click here for the program.
Click here to register.
Community Arts Network SA, as part of its Community Arts Development Program, and the Disability & Arts Transition Team, are presenting a disability and arts Funding Application Workshop (view the flyer in pdf or doc formats).
This will be a free workshop for artists and arts workers on the ins and outs of applying to funding programs.
11am to 3pm
Wednesday 10 February 2010
Topics covered include:
Clare Tizard, Manager
Richard Llewellyn Arts & Disability Trust
and Community Arts Development Fund
Sandra Naulty, Manager
Independent Makers & Presenters
Lunch and drinks provided
View the access and dietary requirements form
Or phone us on 8231 0900 with your requirements
Restless Studio
Community Arts Network SA (view map)
234a Sturt St Adelaide
(Enter off Arthur St)
Monday 8 February 2010
8231 0900
Self-managed funding, also known as individualised funding, is an approach used to enable people with disabilities to have control and choice about the supports they receive. Self-managed funding gives a person with a disability control of the funding that has been allocated for their support needs. It enables the individual to choose how, where and when they receive the support they need.
Self-managed funding can range from a direct payment to a person with a disability to enable them to arrange and purchase the support they require, through to arrangements which support a person to self-manage.
At the request of the Minister for Disability, the Department for Families and Communities has been planning the implementation of self-managed funding arrangements. The Office for Disability and Client Services has been leading the work which has entailed broad consultation with people with disabilities and their carers, service providers and other key stakeholders. Phase one is commencing with current clients of Disability SA being invited to register interest in participating in the phase one initiative. A panel will select 50 people to participate in phase one. Participants will be current clients of Disability SA and have an existing allocation of ongoing disability support. No additional funding is associated with this initiative.
Phase One: Self-managed Funding is a development phase. Self-managed funding represents a new form of service delivery for people with disabilities and their carers and service providers. For this reason participants will participate in an evaluation that informs future self-management arrangements. Disability SA will ensure that participants have access to training, advice and assistance throughout Phase One.
Disability SA has set up an information line to provide information and answer any queries.
People interested in submitting a Registration of Interest and obtaining an information pack can do so via:
www.sa.gov.au/disability/selfmanagedfunding
or
Calling the Information Line on 1300 786 117
The Dame Roma Mitchell Trust Fund for Children and Young People was established by the South Australian Government and South Australian Council of Social Services to make grants available to children and young people who are, or have been, under Guardianship of the Minister or in State care.
Grants are available for the following purposes:
To assist you to achieve personal goals
To contribute to your health and wellbeing; and or
To provide development opportunities.
Applications for the Dame Roma Mitchell Trust Fund will be accepted from 13 August 2009 and will close on 30th September 2009.
Application forms and more information available at:
www.dfc.sa.gov.au/pub/Home/Financialsupportandgrants/Grantsforyoungpeople/tabid/275/Default.aspx
INDIVIDUALS
Amr Abdallah – Music
$8000 to produce and market a debut EP.
Robert Cettl – Literature
$6000 for ebook publication of Always An Other? Representations of disability in Australian film.
Naomi Clarke – Visual Art
$7500 towards the purchase of adapted photographic equipment and a photographic exhibition in 2010.
Adam Cocca – Music
$3000 towards the purchase of adapted music equipment to assist in the production of songs.
Elizabeth Dickinson-Sharpe – Music
$800 professional music study fees to assist in the development of her piano skills.
Helen Katsinis – Literature
$3000 for attendance at a national conference for professional romantic fiction writers.
Mel Kelly – Performing Arts
$2745 for stage one development of Drug Of Choice, a hybrid performance-art piece.
Teri Kelly – Literature
$5000 to assist in the publication of Girls Like Me, a poetry anthology.
Kyra Kimpton – Dance
$10000 for development of solo dance piece Prelude.
Daniel Levy – Music
$6000 to produce a second EP.
Suzanne MacKenzie – Music
$2600 for travel costs to access singing and music lessons.
Gaelle Mellis – Theatre
$8829 for stage two development of contemporary performance piece Take Up Thy Bed And Walk.
Nina Pearce – Theatre
$4000 to re-stage This Place, a play to be presented during Mental Health Week.
Jungle Phillips – Visual Arts
$4094 to produce a professional quality catalogue and exhibit at three Sydney galleries.
Phil Spruce – Literature
$5100 to draft a novel All That You Can Be.
Kelly Vincent – Theatre
$8900 to create Startspace, a cross media installation theatre work.
ORGANISATIONS
CanDo4Kids – Visual Arts
$8179 for a mentorship program with professional artists to make a tactile mural for vision and hearing impaired children.
Central Northern Adelaide Health Service: Club 84 – Music
$11,925 to support The Harmony Of Hearts Choir to produce a professional quality performance for presentation at various community events.
City of Port Adelaide Enfield – Community Cultural Development
$11,000 to present the Umbrella Fest by Tony Doyle Visions at the Port Festival in October 2009.
Ink Pot Arts Inc- Music
$8036 for Tutti artists to work with The Gathering Wave choir to develop a concert performance.
Kym MacKenzie and Darryl Williams – Theatre
$7880 for professional development of Roadies – a comedy act about two stagehands.
Mental Health Coalition SA – Visual Arts
$3000 to have an exhibition during Mental Health Week 2009.
No Strings Attached – Theatre
$13,300 for stage two development of the play Steak ‘n’ Chelsea with Rachel High and Julie MacNamara.
Restless Dance Theatre – Dance
$17,500 for development of a new dance theatre piece Beauty with choreographer Ingrid Voorendt.
SA Writers Centre – Literature
$13,000 to employ a writer in residence to assist writers with a disability.
Individuals: 16 $86,168
Organisations: 9 $93,820
Total Applications: 25 Total: $179,988
There are now revised eligibility criteria for children accessing the Federal Government’s early intervention funding through the Helping Children with Autism Package.
Click here for details (FAHCSIA web-site).
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Continuing a strong commitment to people with disability
A new National Disability Agreement between the Australian Government and State and Territory Governments will improve and increase services for people with disability, their families and carers.
The agreement reflects a strong commitment from both levels of government to provide more opportunities for people with disability to participate in and enjoy Australia’s economic and social life.
The new agreement is designed specifically to assist people with disability to live as independently as possible, by helping them to establish stable and sustainable living arrangements, increasing their choices, and improving their health and wellbeing. At the same time, the agreement focuses on supporting families and carers in their caring roles.
Allocating record levels of Australian Government funding
Under the new agreement, the Australian Government will contribute $5.3 billion to state and territory-run disability services over the next five years. The agreement means that by 2013, the Australian Government’s contribution will reach $1.25 billion, compared to $620 million in 2007.
An extra $408 million will fund services and reforms to the disability services system. As well, the agreement includes $1.9 billion announced in May 2008 to pay for more than 24,000 supported accommodation, respite and in home care places.
Average indexation of Australian Government contributions will increase from 1.8 per cent a year to around 6 per cent—the highest level of indexation under a disability agreement.
Outside the agreement, the Australian Government will continue to provide $9.88 billion for Disability Support Pension, over $3.2 billion for Carer Payment and Carer Allowance, and more than $600 million for services for people with disability, including employment services.
Setting a reform agenda
Importantly, the new agreement paves the way for significant reforms to the disability services system, with Disability Ministers agreeing in July this year to an ambitious National Disability Reform agenda. The reforms will mean a more responsive system of disability support that is easy to access and responds flexibly to people’s changing needs.
The agenda will include reforms to roles and responsibilities for funding and delivery of disability services. This will lead to more consistent and responsive services, clarify accountabilities between governments, and improve disability services’ performance.
As part of the reform process, governments will work in the first half of 2009 on proposals in community care relating to mental health, disability and aged care services. The goals of such reforms will be to deliver more integrated and responsive services for individuals and families, to clarify accountabilities between governments and to improve performance of service systems. Specific proposals in relation to community mental health, disability services and aged care will be considered in the first half of 2009 as part of this program, including future arrangements under the Home and Community Care Program.
In any new proposal, the Australian Government will continue to lead and coordinate national disability policy, deliver income support and employment services for people with disability, and work cooperatively with State and Territory Governments.
Improving the disability services system
The reforms aim is to create an effective, efficient and equitable disability services system, which focuses on early intervention, individual and personalised attention, and lifelong planning.
In agreeing to reform, governments will work together to introduce a system of single access points, uniform assessment processes, a national quality assurance system, more consistent access to disability aids and equipment, and better ways to measure unmet demand for disability services.
Elements that underpin the reforms are:
• systems that provide single access points and assessment processes in line with nationally-agreed principles to ensure people are referred to the most appropriate disability services;
• early intervention and planning to ensure that clients receive the most appropriate and timely support;
• improved measurement of unmet demand for disability services;
• population benchmarking of disability services;
• a national workforce strategy to address attraction and retention of the disability services workforce;
• a national quality assurance system for disability services; and
• national ‘harmonisation’ in providing aids and equipment.
Starting the new agreement
The agreement comes into effect from 1 January 2009 and will replace the existing Commonwealth State Territory Disability Agreement.
Finding out more
For more information about the National Disability Agreement and the National Disability Reform agenda:
• Telephone: 1800 008 612
• Email: nationaldisabilityagreement@fahcsia.gov.au
The Minister for Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous
Affairs, Jenny Macklin, and the Parliamentary Secretary for Disabilities
and Children’s Services, Bill Shorten, have progressed a range of
initiatives to support people with disability, their families and carers, over
the past twelve months. Read more in the full document (PDF)….
Opening Hours
Monday - Friday
9am - 5pm
The Disability Information and Resource Centre
195 Gilles Street, Adelaide SA 5000 Australia
Phone (08) 8236 0555 Fax (08) 8236 0566 TTY (08) 8223 7579 SA only 1300 305 558
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