FREE TRAINING: Zoom
What is Positive Behaviour Support and how can change happen using a holistic approach?
FREE TRAINING event: Geraldton, WA,
for parents, family and carers.
Do you support a family member, or a person with a disability who can sometimes become agitated, distressed, or who has difficulty managing their regulation? And are you keen to learn more about how to understand what their behaviour means?
Join us for a conversation to start thinking about this differently.
Microboards Australia and Developmental Disability WA (DDWA) have been working with people with disability and their families for many years in the area of behaviour support. We believe in the person and their support network being the experts in the support needs of their loved one. Supporting people to feel good, feel regulated and feel connected frames our approach and lens. We support people and their support networks to understand their own regulation with a focus on co-regulation through relationships.
Microboards Australia have worked with DDWA’s Side by Side community since its inception in 2012. Side by Side connects families experiencing challenging behaviour with other families through a supported peer group. Peer groups provide a safe place to share experiences, receive support and help each other. We believe that peer support complements any behaviour support intervention.
Please join us for a FREE training session and learn more about behaviour support and how you can be supported through peer support in your local community.
Date: Friday 22nd November 2024
Time: 11 AM – 1 PM Training Session via ZOOM
(zoom link will be sent once registered)
Cost: FREE
To find out more and Register (RSVP), please email Bron at Bronwyn.Pike@ddwa.org.au
Speakers
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Bron Pike, right.
Bron Pike– DDWA, Side by Side
Bron has worked for over 20 years within a variety of human services with her focus on supporting individuals and families to plan, develop and self-direct their supports. Bron has significant experience and knowledge in supporting families of people with very complex needs, including challenging behaviour, finding creative and meaningful ways to plan. For the past 12 years, she has led the development of the Side by Side peer to peer support program for families with loved ones with complex needs, who experience behaviour that is challenging. She participated in the NDS Positive Behaviour Support Practitioner Training in 2021 and has exceptional links to networks across disability services and resources. Bron facilitates sustainable support networks, both formal and informal and has experience in Specialist Support Coordination.
Maggie Visser– DDWA, Side by Side
Maggie’s son has complex communication needs and displays behaviour which may be seen as challenging. Maggie’s background is an early childhood educator and she’s audited on the ECU complex communication needs course which includes the behaviour support unit. Maggie is self managing her son’s plan and has previously worked at WA Individualised Services as an advisor to families that chose to self manage and directly engage their workers. Maggie is part of the NDIS Participant Reference Group. Maggie also has a sister with disabilities and believes in family leadership. Maggie also coordinates the Side by Side program with Bron since gaining fulltime employment with DDWA in 2020.
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Jaquie Mills
– Microboards Australia
Jaquie is the parent of Eli who lives with disability and who has complex support needs. Jaquie was instrumental in working with families to start Side by Side program in 2012. Jaquie is also the Managing Director of Microboards Australia, an organisation which facilitates the development of social networks around vulnerable people to support them to have greater autonomy, citizenship and quality of life. She is a champion for the rights of people with disability, having developed a range of programs, tertiary courses, and resources to improve outcomes in the areas of social inclusion and friendships, communication, supported decision making, understanding behaviour and health.
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Debbie Lobb
– Microboards Australia
Debbie is a speech pathologist by background having been privileged to partner with people with disability and their families for over 30 years. Since the early 2000’s Debbie’s learning and passion delved into supporting people with disability who find life hard and have regulation support needs. Since then, Debbie has held leadership and teaching roles in both governmental and not for profit disability organisations to influence understanding of people’s needs and support service design to improve people’s wellbeing and quality of life. Debbie is currently Director of Professional Supports at Microboards’ Australia and course developer and lecturer at Curtin University for the Graduate Certificate: Positive Behaviour Support and the Graduate Certificate: Complex Communication Needs.