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Websites

The following websites contain information relevant to Pave the Way’s work with families and their relatives with a disability to develop and safeguard their vision and to plan for good life now and in the future. The list is not exhaustive but will be updated periodically. Please Contact Us if you find links here that no longer exist.

Planning and Circles of Support

http://www.inclusion.com/inclusionarticles.html
From the Inclusion Network, Canada. Includes articles about planning and circles of support.

http://www.circlesnetwork.org.uk/default.htm
Website from Circles Network, UK. Includes information about person centred planning and circles of support.

http://www.parent2parentqld.org.au/
Website for Parent to Parent association, a Queensland organisation that provides information, peer support and planning for families who have a member with a disability.

Legal Issues

http://qicppp.org/
The Queensland Impaired Competence Planning Pilot Project. Information and links for people with disabilities and their families to help with planning. Uses the legal term “impaired incompetence” which refers to the ability of a person to make legal decisions about their money, property and care in the future.

Community Living.

http://www.supportedliving.org.au
Website from New South Wales dedicated to information about supported living for people with disabilities. Resources, articles and stories of how people with disabilities and their families have organised the support they need to live in their own homes.

http://www.clp-sa.org.au/
Website for Community Living Project, South Australia, which works to enable people who have disabilities to achieve a purposeful and valued community life. Includes news stories about people they have worked with.

http://www.homeswest.org.au/
Website from Homes West, a small community based service in Brisbane which supports individuals to establish and to live in homes of their own and to be included as active and valued members in their local community. Includes articles about the history of the organisation and how it works.

http://www.communityworks.info/index.htm
Website of David and Faye Weatherow, Community Works, Canada. Includes a range of articles around what it takes for a person with a disability to live a good life in the community.

Organisations involved in future planning and safeguarding for people with disabilities and their families.

www.plan.ca
PLAN Canada. Planned Lifetime Advocacy Network (PLAN) is a non-profit organisation, established in 1989 by and for families committed to future planning and securing a good life for their relative with a disability.

http://www.pin.org.au
Planned Individual Networks Inc.(PIN) is a not-for-profit organisation created by families in West Australia, based on and inspired by PLAN Canada.

http://www.equalfutures.org.uk
Equal Futures is a Scottish organisation set up by families along the lines of PLAN.

General
Websites with links to a range of useful sources of information.

www.mamre.org.au
Mamre Association Inc. Pave the Way is part of Mamre Association. Mamre supports families who have a family member with a disability. Mamre is based in Brisbane, Queensland.

http://www.family-advocacy.com
Family Advocacy is an independent, community based social advocacy organisation based in New South Wales.

Government Departments

Federal

http://www.facsia.gov.au/
Department of Families, Community Services and Indigenous affairs (FaCSIA)

http://www.centrelink.gov.au/
Centrelink

http://www9.health.gov.au/ccsd/
Commonwealth Carelink Centres

State

http://www.disability.qld.gov.au/
Disability Services Queensland

http://www.housing.qld.gov.au/
Department of Housing Queensland

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