Community involvement

• All Abilities Playground Project
• Building Supportive Communities Grants
  • 2008 Grant recipients
  • About the Building Supportive Communities Grants
  • Events and activities
  • Contact us
• Carer recognition
• Communicating with people with a disability
  • A way with words
  • Better Communication postcards
  • Preparing information
  • Publications and resources
• Consumer satisfaction survey results
• Disability Action Week
• Disability councils
• See beyond the disability
• Shared Visions
• Share your Story
• Storybook

Events and activities

There are many different ways in which communities can promote the inclusion and participation of people with a disability in everyday life. Following are some suggestions and examples of the events funded through Building Supportive Communities Grants in previous years:

• interactive information sessions for members of the community hosted by people with a disability to increase awareness and understanding of the impacts and experiences of disability.
• the development of orienteering mapping courses for parklands that can be used by people with a disability.
• a series of self-advocacy workshops for local communities to assist people with a disability to resolve access issues within their own community.
• develop a sporting activity where people with a disability are supported and encouraged to participate.
• exhibitions of artwork and photographs produced by people with a disability reflecting on the experience of living with a disability.
• presentation of a series of workshops or seminars to businesses across the region, including information about making products and services more accessible for people with a disability.
• a radio program profiling the lives and experiences of Queenslanders with a disability for broadcast on community radio stations.