Community capacity building | Foundational Supports

This topic is about community capacity building.

This focuses on building the resources of community organisations. The projects would focus on providing advice and resources for people with disability and mental health concerns. These would support access to quality and inclusive community services.

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The types of programs that have worked well to build community capacity to better support people with disability and ensure they can participate in the community
What could help to improve the capacity of community organisations and non-government services to be more inclusive, accessible and welcoming for people with disability.

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Topics

Information and advice

This topic is about how people with disability use information, resources and advice to find disability supports.

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Individual and family capacity building

This theme is about self-advocacy. It extends to supporting individuals to self advocate and building skills and leadership of families and carers.

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Community capacity building

This theme is about community capacity building.

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