ABILITY AWARENESS WEEK 2-8 August

On Monday 2 August, Ability Awareness Week (a community awareness initiative) will be launched at ANZ Stadium by Federal Minister Bill Shorten MP Parliamentary Secretary for Disabilities to celebrate the fact that everyone has ‘abilities’ and to promote equality and independence for people with a disability while at the same time fostering understanding and acceptance of disabilities throughout NSW.

An initiative of Ability Options, Ability Awareness Week is designed to encourage everyone in the NSW community to join in creating a level playing field for people of all abilities and help break down the barriers faced by people with a disability by acknowledging that we all have strengths and weaknesses, goals, dreams and abilities too.

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ABILITY AWARENESS WEEK COMMUNITY SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT

South Sydney Rabbitohs Souths Cares program is the principal campaign partner for the inaugural Ability Awareness Week. South Sydney Rabbitoh Beau Champion and Ability Options client Adam Budzinski recorded the community service announcement which will be aired across NSW radio stations.

Souths Cares, the charity arm of the South Sydney Rabbitohs, has established workplace mentoring programs throughout the South Sydney and Coffs Harbour regions by way of the Souths Cares Workplace Mentoring program. Players and staff involved in the program deliver sessions to jobseekers highlighting strategies to overcome barriers to work, peer pressure, self-esteem building and making better life choices. Players deliver key messages through their own life experiences with their input forming part of a structured approach to provide information and get participants to commit to and complete job seeker training.

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Newsletters

Ability Options publishes a bi-monthly organisation-wide newsletter featuring an update from the Chief Executive Officer with articles about what is happening across the organisation and our various programs and services. It is one of many important ways we communicate with our clients, their parents, carers, guardians, employees and people who provide invaluable support to the organisation. This newsletter has interesting articles such as a profile of a client we support and how they have achieved their goals.

We also publish a bi-monthly newsletter specifically for the Self Managed programs.

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