Recruiting the right support – a workshop exploring how to build a support team committed to active citizenship.
🔍 Cultivate a support team aligned to your values, dreams and aspirations
🌱 Recruit better quality support workers who:
- do what’s needed
- stick around for longer
- support you to take your rightful place in the heart of community
🗣️ Discover effective communication strategies to foster a lasting and meaningful partnership
About the presenters
Paul Jay
Paul Jay has 30 something years experience of living with disability. In that time, he and the people around him have learnt how to navigate their ways through the always complex disability support systems to make them, work for him. Paul has lived near Walyalyup/Fremantle since 1996 and has lived independently with a housemate for the last 13 years. He has his own team of support workers and has developed a unique recruitment approach that enables him to meet, screen and select people who will suit what he needs and wants. Paul is keen to share some of what he has learned with other people, so that they can get better quality support workers who do what’s needed and stick around for longer.
Dr Leighton Jay
Leighton is a leader of transformational change alongside people with disability, their families and communities in this country. With extensive experience in the disability sector as a facilitator, collaborator and consultant, Leighton is passionate about creating communities that include, value and amplify the voice of people with disability. Working alongside his son, Paul, Leighton has developed a deep and lived understanding of the importance of recruiting the right support workers.
Felicity Dillon
Lawyer, adjunct lecturer and consultant to the disability sector.
Felicity is an experienced estate planning lawyer who specialises in future planning for families who have a relative with disability. She is the Principal Solicitor and owner of Family Life Matters.
She also consults to the disability sector and has worked on a number of projects including workshop presentations to families on the NDIS, interviewing participants in the Decision Making Possibilities Project and developing resources for a Building Accessible Workplaces project for employers in the East Kimberley.
Felicity is a long term member of Paul’s Microboard and has worked with him over many years to develop and implement his successful recruitment strategy.
Ticket information
Cost: $40 per person
This workshop is subsidised thanks to WAiS Creating Home Project.
For people with disability, family members and allies.
If cost is an issue at all, please don’t hesitate to contact us at Hunter Circles on 0401 388 164 or info@huntercircles.org to discuss pricing.
Please note that this workshop can be claimed by most NDIS participants whose plan is Self Managed or Plan Managed.
Hosts
Western Australia’s Individualised Services (WAiS), Includa and Hunter Circles
Please check out this awesome film Paul made about the things that make a good life for him. It’s brilliant!
