PDCN is the peak body representing, empowering and lobbying for the physical disability community in NSW and beyond.
Their focus areas include advocating for people with disability to generate lasting positive change; running workshops, peer groups and individual peer mentoring facilitated by people with lived experience of disability; and providing disability inclusion advice to government departments, local councils and private companies.
There are often many challenges and obstacles faced by people with disabilities and their families, and that these are even greater for people living outside the metropolitan areas.
To help build opportunities and remove barriers faced by people with disability living in Greater Sydney and beyond, PDCN is travelling across NSW to better engage with, empower and represent the physical disability community in each place.
From November 24 to 28 November, PDCN’s Lived Experience Facilitators will run free interactive workshops for people with disabilities, their parents and informal carers.
Workshops will include learning how to speak up for yourself, self-management of your NDIS plan, exploring the potential of Post-Traumatic Growth, and self-care for people with disabilities as well as for parents and carers of children with disabilities.
There will also be shorter info-sessions on current NDIS tips and information.
People with disabilities will also be able to enjoy meet and mingle lunches, dinner, morning and afternoon teas, and share stories and experiences of living with disability in your community at the community consultation sessions.
Voices shared during the networking and consultation sessions will raise important matters that PDCN will then discuss with local, state and federal government and will directly influence the issues PDCN represents in their systemic advocacy work.
So come to share your stories, amplify your voices, meet and mingle with the disability community, and leave feeling empowered.
To register go to: https://www.pdcnsw.org.au/greater-syd-events/- or call 1800 688 831