Office of the Public AdvocatePrimary landing page
- Details
- Written by Margaret Bozik
- Category: Primary landing page
- Hits: 3666
- Summary Text:
OPA’s mission is to protect the human rights of people with disability. It is an issue that Lisa, who lives with an acquired brain injury, is passionate about. In this series of interviews, Lisa seeks to explore how various organisations that provide services to people with disability view human rights, and what they are doing to promote the human rights of people with disability.
- Details
- Written by Margaret Bozik
- Category: Primary landing page
- Hits: 4754
- Intro text: The project aims to improve communication between health practitioners and people with disability, and improve understanding of disability.
- Summary Text:
Healthy Discussions: Supporting people with disability to make and communicate health decisions, is a two and a half year project funded by an Information, Linkages and Capacity Building (Mainstream Capacity Building) Grant from the Australian Government Department of Social Services. The aim of the project is to improve the way that health practitioners communicate with people with disability and to improve their understanding of disability
The voice of people with lived experience of disability is at the heart of the Healthy Discussions project.
Everyone has the right to play an active role in making decisions about their own health and to receive the support they need to do so. By providing health practitioners with a set of practical communication and engagement skills, knowledge and expertise, the project aims to ensure practitioners are confident in supporting patients with disability to make informed decisions about their own health.
Download Healthy Discussions Project - Easy Read fact sheet
Read the Experiences of ABI and Inclusion report: Reflections on inclusion drawn from lived experience, that was included at the Disability Royal Commission as part of OPA's submissions.
Watch OPA's HealthCARE Conversations video (below), aimed at improving communication between health practitioners and people with disability.
Healthy Discussions: Supporting people with disability to make and communicate health decisions, is a two and a half year project funded by an Information, Linkages and Capacity Building (Mainstream Capacity Building) Grant from the Australian Government Department of Social Services.
The aim of the project is to improve the way that health practitioners communicate with people with disability and to improve their understanding of disability
The voice of people with lived experience of disability is at the heart of the Healthy Discussions project.
Everyone has the right to play an active role in making decisions about their own health and to receive the support they need to do so. By providing health practitioners with a set of practical communication and engagement skills, knowledge and expertise, the project aims to ensure practitioners are confident in supporting patients with disability to make informed decisions about their own health.
- Details
- Written by Super User
- Category: Primary landing page
- Hits: 32347
- Alternate landing page content:
Hero area title Hero area image Hero area text images/OPA_volunteers_square.jpg OPA's 650 volunteers are from a variety of backgrounds, age groups, and communities. They fulfil their responsibilities with professionalism, compassion, and with the best interests of people with disability in mind at all times.
Volunteering for OPA could be right for you if you:
- are seeking a challenging and rewarding voluntary role
- want to make a difference to a person with disability
- want to stand up for the rights of people with disability
- are comfortable talking to people with disability or mental illness
- can commit to a few hours each week for at least two years as a volunteer (all OPA volunteer roles are long-term)
- have good communication skills.
- Details
- Written by Super User
- Category: Primary landing page
- Hits: 15104
- Summary Text:
Residential Notices under the Residential Tenancies Act 1997
Specialist Disability Accommodation (SDA) providers are required to enter into agreements with SDA residents and residents supported under the Commonwealth’s Continuity of Support program.
The options are:
- entering into an SDA residency agreement
- establishing an SDA residency agreement
- entering into a residential tenancy agreement.
The SDA residency agreement retains some existing responsibilities for SDA providers previously held by Disability Service Providers under the Disability Act 2006.
Where an SDA recipient has entered into an SDA residency agreement, The SDA provider may from time to time need to give notices to the resident or may receive notices from the resident.
Where an SDA recipient has entered into an SDA residency agreement, The SDA provider may from time to time need to give notices to the resident or may receive notices from the resident.
- Details
- Written by Super User
- Category: Primary landing page
- Hits: 81558
- Summary Text:
Looking to plan ahead?
Appointing a medical treatment decision maker
Making an advance care directive
For health practitioners seeking guidance
See below
- Can your adult patient consent? app for Apple IOS devices
- Can your adult patient consent? app for Android devices
- Can your adult patient consent? Printable flowchart 112.3 KB (PDF FILE)
