Exploring Peer Practice in Disability Support: Benefits, Enablers and Challenges
- Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2024, 5:30 pm - 8:30 pm
- Location: Napier G04 Lecture Theatre, Napier Building, University of Adelaide, North Terrace campus
- Cost: Free
- Contact: Anne Jurisevic
- Email: anne.jurisevic@adelaide.edu.au
Join us for the Healthy Development Adelaide (HDA) and Novita forum.
This session explores the benefits of peer practice in the context of disability support from several different perspectives, including peer programs for parents and caregivers with a child with disability, and peer programs for teenagers with disability. Peer programs can deliver significant benefits for families and young people with disability, arising from the core values that underpin peer practice and the distinctive role people with lived experience can play in supporting others.
The aim of this session is to provide food for thought – to encourage reflection amongst policymakers, researchers and service providers about the role of peer practice in disability support. Novita currently offers a small number of programs and services which incorporate elements of peer practice, but we see this as an area of growing importance that we would like to engage with more deeply.
OUR SPEAKERS
Veronica Coram, Research Officer, Novita - What is peer practice and what are its benefits? An overview of the research evidence
Kate Nicholson, Clinical Lead in Physiotherapy, Novita and Abbey Brown, Parent-Peer Facilitator, Novita - Reflecting on clinicians and parent-peers working together to support families with a child with disability
Brooke Starr, HIPPY Coordinator, Novita and Jodie Molitor, HIPPY Coordinator, Novita - Structured peer mentoring for families with children with a disability
Veronica Coram in conversation with Ruby Wilson, Lived Experience and Community Researcher and other young people - Peer supports for teens in transition
OUR CHAIR
Petr Prasil, Manager, Research & Development, Novita
Networking and light refreshments will follow the session from 7.30pm.
This is a public forum and also open to the community, everyone is welcome to attend.
For the full program description and to register please go here: https://events.humanitix.com/exploring-peer-practice-in-disability-support-benefits-enablers-and-challenges