DPA's Information Exchange - 24 October 2020

• Mahi Tika – Equity in Employment on the road
• Crip the Lit at Verb Wellington Festival 2020
• Young people with physical impairments sought to share sport and recreation experiences
• EGL conversations co-facilitator opportunities
• Canterbury DHB Consumer Council Vacancies

Mahi Tika - Equity in Employment on the road

DPA’s Mahi Tika – Equity in Employment team is hitting the road next month, visiting towns and cities across the Waikato region to meet with disabled people who are seeking employment.

Are you or your whaanau living in the Waikato region and looking for work? Be sure to fill out our expression of interest form so we can get in touch about meeting with you.

Mahi Tika - Equity in Employment is an employment programme designed to empower disabled people in the Waikato region to be working or training in the industry of their choice and also supports them to become mentors to other disabled people.

Disabled people who take part in this programme will participate in workshops that are modelled on their own specific needs, attend networking events with industry partners, and become part of a community of job seekers.

We will also be meeting with industry partners across the Waikato region to promote inclusive workplaces and explore future employment opportunities. If your Waikato business values diversity in the workplace, be sure to get in touch!

You can find out more at www.MahiTika.org.nz or by emailing MahiTika@DPA.org.nz.

Crip the Lit at Verb Wellington Festival 2020

Join Crip the Lit at the Verb Wellington Writers Festival on Saturday November 7.

Formed in 2016 by Trish Harris and Robyn Hunt, Crip the Lit promotes, fosters and amplifies the voices of writers with the lived experience of disability. (Read more about Crip the Lit)

'Vulnerability, fluorescent islands and resilient teabags' is an eclectic hour of word inspiration as Crip the Lit explore the contentious label of being ‘vulnerable’ from inside out and upside down.

The line-up includes script-writers, novelists, columnists, memoir writers and poets: Alice Mander, Charlotte Simmonds, Helen Vivienne Fletcher, Henrietta Bollinger, L.J. Ritchie, Maisie Chilton Tressler, Robyn Hunt and Trish Harris.
 

Vulnerability, fluorescent islands and resilient teabags

When: 2.00 -  3.00 pm, Saturday, 7 November 2020
Where: National Library of New Zealand, 70 Molesworth Street, Wellington

Read more about the event on the Verb Wellington website. 

Young people with physical impairments sought to share sport and recreation experiences

University of Waikato PhD candidate Catriona McBean is recruiting participants for her research on Young People with Physical Impairments engagement in sport and active recreation.

Parents/caregivers are invited to nominate any young person aged 10-14 years who has a physical impairment and is actively engaged in sport or active recreation to be part of the research.

Catriona is looking for:
- 4 or 5 young people
- aged 10-14 years
- with a physical impairment
- who participate in sport and/or active recreation

She wants to hear from them about their experiences in sport and active recreation as a disabled young person, so that she can find out what contributes to their positive experiences and how this can be used to help get more disabled young people participating.

About Catriona McBean: "I am doing my doctoral research at the University of Waikato in Disability Sport. I work for dsport in Wellington. I am a Paralympics New Zealand board member and in 2018 I volunteered at the Winter Paralympics in Pyongchang, South Korea. Next year I hope to be at the Tokyo Paralympic Games."

To find out more, or to nominate someone go to weareintheteam.com

For more information about the research you can email Catriona McBean - cm289@students.waikato.ac.nz

EGL conversations co-facilitator opportunities 

CCS Disability Action are looking for a disabled person(s) who live in Blenheim, Greymouth and Whanganui, who would be interested in co-facilitating Enabling Good Lives conversations in their community. 

These are paid roles and will be a series of 13 meetings over the next six months in their local community.

They will work alongside a Lead Facilitator who will be leading the conversations.  The co-facilitator will need to have links within their community and will be provided with all the information and support they require for the role.

For more information about the role, please contact CCS Disability Action National Disability Leadership Coordinator Debbie Ward - debbie.ward@ccsdisabilityaction.org.nz or 027 240 3359.

Canterbury DHB Consumer Council Vacancies

The Canterbury District Health Board (CDHB) Consumer Council has vacancies for volunteer positions to reflect the consumer voice in the following areas:

• Intellectual Disability
• Mental Health
• Older Persons Health
• Pacific Health
• Youth

They are seeking nominations by 5pm Sunday 8 November  for interview in mid-late November 2020.

Applicants are welcome to self-nominate without a nominator and they can apply for more than one role.

To read more about the Consumer Council and the vacancies download this Word Doc.

To fill out the nomination form download this Word Doc.