What is behaviour support?

“Behaviour support focuses on evidence-based strategies and person-centred supports that address the needs of the person with disability and the underlying causes of behaviours of concern, while safeguarding the dignity and quality of life of people with disability who require specialist behaviour support’ (NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission).   What does behaviour support include? A…

Connected Communities Report

Connected Communities

Download Report This resource outlines the Connected Communities approach to digital inclusion and its outcomes for participants and community workers. It has been written for digital inclusion advocates, practitioners, and those who fund digital inclusion work, and presents a more impactful way to plan and deliver digital inclusion activities, side-by-side with community. Message from the Connect…

Sydney BIS Team Oppotunity

An invitation to NDIS approved Behaviour Support Practitioners

Sydney BIS Team Opportunity An invitation to NDIS approved Behaviour Support Practitioners The Jeder Institute delivers capacity building, and strength-based supports to our communities that are challenging, rewarding and differentiated by the ambitions outlined in our 4 Pillars. We look for people who can wholeheartedly connect to these ambitions and share our way of being…

International Journal of Appreciative Inquiry

Download International Journal of Appreciative Inquiry May 2011 Volume 13 Number 2 ISBN 978-1-907549-05-2   Guest Editors: Sallie Lee and Dayle O’Brien Dee Brooks Is a passionate and highly energetic community worker, facilitator and trainer who currently works with the Family Action Centre based at the University of Newcastle. Dee is the Facilitator of the…

Community Economic Literacy and the “Leaky Bucket”

Download Coady International Institute Occasional Paper Series, No. 9 March 2011 Gord Cunningham This paper offers a “how-to” guide for constructing and using a popular economic analysis tool called the leaky bucket. By documenting its use for community-driven monitoring of the main flows of money coming into and out of the local economy, the paper…