Recovery workshop

06 Jan 2016

Participants of the recent Cockburn Kwinana My Way Community of Practice workshop explored the compatibility of Recovery and the National Disability Insurance Scheme. The workshop discussion is detailed below.

What language does your organisation use?

Language is powerful and important;

• It builds a picture in your mind
• It can be judgmental
• It can either include or exclude people

WA NDIS My Way use straight-forward, positive and optimistic words.

These are words of Recovery.

What are your beliefs and values?

People share a lot in common. While workshop participants said their underlying beliefs were similar, there were also differences. Participants discussed this with regards to the NDIS being about individual service.

Core values are unique to the individual

What happens when people have to give up a core value? How do individuals ensure that their own core values, and the beliefs of others, are upheld? These people may have been dis-empowered, traumatised or had their core values or beliefs taken away.

Emphasise the support need, not the diagnosis

As individuals and workers, people should aspire to enact recovery orientated principles.

These are;

• Hope
• Dignity
• Choice
• Empowerment

Rate your organisation using the recovery orientated services guideline assessment tool located on the right.

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