Building Capacity and Family Leadership for Positive Social Change
Focusing on developing opportunities for disabled individuals and families to create fulfilling lives, this program emphasizes early connections, vision development, maximizing personal budgets, and empowering families through education and knowledge sharing. It aims to strengthen family leadership to address issues impacting their lives, fostering empowerment and building alliances for positive social impact.
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Building capacity and Family Leadership Rachel Cassen, Director, Leap
Goal of Family Leadership: Developing those things which make it easier for disabled people and their families to create good lives for themselves.
Beginning Early Connect early with families to support them to be aspirational for their child to build community and natural supports and to help their children to become as independent as possible
Assisting Families from a young age Develop and extend their vision dream big Build a personal network Focus on ordinary life outcomes Stay connected
Seizing the opportunity represented by personal budgets Maximising the effective use of individual budgets to assist people and families to use them to build an ordinary life with relationships, belonging and valued roles.
Family leadership 1 1 1 1 Education Empowerment Greater Personal agency Positive Social change
The sharing of really useful knowledge and some frameworks for change. Live-in family retreats one day workshops, on a one-to-one basis through independent planning and facilitation Education
Strengthening the capacities for families to provide leadership on the issues that affect and shape their lives Building alliances with progressive families and other allies The discovery of indigenous resources Empowerment
A sense of support and somewhere to turn to Renewed hope Greater resilience Feeling connected to a community of like-minded families Foster action orientation Personal Agency
Acting intentionally towards a clear goal Having frameworks for action Ability to make choices based on shared decision making - Is this what we want? Knowing what is negotiable and non-negotiable Less dependence on professionals Positive Social Change
Courage Relationship based Leap: Valued and treasured roles 5 Concepts Intergenerational Hidden resources brought into use
It is important to have a vision for a good, quality life, and have opportunities, experiences and support to move the life trajectory in a positive direction. .
Greater Personal Agency Agency Greater Personal Education and Empowerment Empowerment Education and Social Change Information and New Perspectives Creating and sustaining a Good Life To Take action with Confidence .
