Home is where our sense of self and our ambitions are formed and reinforced. This extends into our communities and broader society and is influenced by attitudes, relationships, systems and the physical environment.
If home is the foundation of our sense of self and orientation to the world, then home is the most critical place to begin the task of dismantling barriers to social inclusion. This is particularly the case for people with complex disabilities in supported accommodation.
The NDIS reforms were designed to deliver choice and control to people with disability.
However, for those in supported accommodation, the most critical of questions - where to live and who to live with – are not within their control. The Foundation’s aim is to re-set the level of ambition in this domain, to ask again:
- What does choice mean?
- How do choices become possible?
- How are they communicated?
- Who listens to those choices?
- And how are the stakeholders responsible for delivering choice held accountable?
This is transformational work. It involves thinking across the lifecycle from supporting parents at key transition points, to redesigning and resourcing support roles, to nurturing aspiration in people with complex disabilities. The foundation is seeking to understand how homes are linked to communities and what we need to do to ensure that both are spaces of welcome and belonging.
This is transformational work. It involves thinking across the lifecycle from supporting parents at key transition points, to redesigning and resourcing support roles, to nurturing aspiration in people with complex disabilities. The foundation is seeking to understand how homes are linked to communities and what we need to do to ensure that both are spaces of welcome and belonging.