Transforming the Nation
The introduction of Disability Care Australia began on July 1 2013 in five trail states, despite popular misconceptions its introduction is 'not another funding reform' occurring in the disability sector. Disability Care Australia is designed to transform the lives of people living with disability.
The scheme is designed to empower people with disabilities and their families to give meaningful directions for their lives. Its major focus is to build an inclusive Australian society through meaningful community participation involving people with disabilities and their family members.
It is important to remember where an individual experiences disability, in the majority of cases the whole family unit becomes uprooted and thus many begin to disengaged from their community. Where individuals experience significant permanent disability, the family unit is disrupted for the live span of the individuals.
Through the introduction of disability care the Australian government recongeries the Human Rights of people living with disability to enjoy a being part of their community. People with disabilities and there families are more likely to experience propriety. This is due to difficulties finding employment and finical and social cost of providing support and care for the person.
In the formation of Disability Care Australia, the government also the potential of people with disabilities to added to the social fabric of life and the economic. If to succeed in its target for community participation and employments targets we and the government have a lot of heard work ahead of us to deliver the objectives under the scheme.
As people continue to join the umbrella of Disability Care Australia we need to ensure along with the choices now being made by individuals and families, that we can agree the targets for participation through things like employment can be reached.
Revolutionary changes on this scale can not be left to chance. For people living with disability and their families the NDIS campaign that lead to the introduction of Disability care was a long and hard battle and the realization of the time required to transition has produced many tears of frustrations..
Why must we continue to wait for this much needed change to occur?
Revolutions and transformation in the way we think and process our ideals takes time. We need to learn to listen better to what people with disabilities want. In order to achieve the goals and objectives of Disability Care Australia in terms of community participation our communities must become accessible, our transport systems and customer service for people with disabilities need to be improved and all Australians need to be ready to embrace an truly inclusive society, that is ready to embrace the strengths, gifts and talents that people with disabilities have to share with us.
Provide support services to enable people living with disabilities or appropriate respite care for families and carers to enable them to become part of the community is only one part of the equation, and until now the figures have not be balanced. We need a community ready to embrace 'difference'; A community that is flexible in service delivery to meet the need of all Australian. A community open to changes in our workforce that allows for the fatigue and behavioural management issues people living with disability may face. A community willing to learn and explore different ways of communicating. (and that is an area in which only people with disabilities can lead the way, I am only just learning how isolation a hearing impairment can be.)
Before people are thrust out into a community that is not inclusively ready, we need to assist the community to be ready. And we can only do that by measuring againist targets. The Labor Government was very clear when it launch Disability Care Australia. They wanted to get it right first time round.
So my friends we need to be patient while we measure and assess these targets can be reached.
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