Microboards Australia is a family led, not for profit organisation supporting people with a disability and their networks of support to find ways to develop lasting relationships, recruit support teams and plan for the future.
Our vision is for all people with a disability living self determined lives with a sustained support network of family, friends and committed support people and community members who share parts of their lives and know them well. We believe that all people have the right to the life they choose which respects them as a member of community and family and upholds their universal human rights.
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Microboards Community
Interested in establishing a Microboard or embedding the Microboard principles of sustainable support networks founded on relationships?
Professional Services
NDIS behaviour support, therapy and support coordination programs and services for families, individuals and service providers.
Supporting Change
Interested to know about our projects, advocacy, disability service improvement and access work we engage in?
Learning Hub
Resources, training and information that you can access or sign up to from across our services
Our Values
Relationships
We value our relationship with you and helping you develop relationships with others.
Learning
We are always learning from you, your family and supporters to find new ways to be of service.
Inclusion
Everyone belongs as equal members of community.
Innovation
We support you to have a good life by thinking outside the box, creating novel solutions and pathways.
Quality
We aspire to providing the best quality services possible.
Person Led
We support by being in partnership with you following your lead for what is important to you and your life.
Microboards Australia
A self-determined life, with a sustained support network of family and friends who know you well.
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Background Involvement in healthcare decisions is associated with better health outcomes for patients. For children and adolescents with intellectual disability, parents and healthcare professionals n...The courses share the same foundational units that are essential for all people who seek to partner with people with disability to have good lives and have their needs met. In fact, if students do 6 units they graduate with both certificates!
This is a really big deal to us as the courses focus on partnering with people with disability and having the skills of being an effective communication partner in ways that seeks to promote the person's own leadership in their life, to learn about their experiences and needs and to better meet their needs.
The courses are co-produced with lived experience educators and at all times are human rights informed and neuroaffirming.
Some enrolled students have now finished the PBS course. Some are still moving through. The students doing the CCN units are also halfway through having done the 'foundation' units.
Some of our Microboards Community have been part of co-designing and contributing to these courses. We also hope to get more funding and time to keep this going so that lived experience coproduction elements can increase over time.
Here are some comments from two students, one who is a teacher, and one a pyschologist, that sum up how most are finding the course.
"As a result of doing these first 2 units, the flow on effect with how I am working is that classrooms are understanding students more and implementing the strategies they really need more often and in the right ways. We are seeing more change in the approaches of teachers and impact on students."
“I have been studying a really long time- I started in early childhood education and moved into special education, then almost completed a nursing degree before I transfered and completed undergrad psychology. I've done family therapy training and now this. I don't feel any of those other courses have ever fundamentally changed my soul like this one has. It is transformative every week to reflect and see the parts of me- that are there because of my birth/family/upbringing/relationships, that have never considered some really important barriers in this world and feel a change in how I feel/think and see people within my community. Not just people with disability but everyone."
If you would like to know more or want to send on to people you know we have attached a flyer. We are also holding an information forum for people who would like to know more. The links to the information sessions are here:
Microboards Australia are proud to partners in the development for the new Centre of Excellence in Intellectual Disability Health. Our managing Director Jaquie Mills is also a member of the advisory council. We are feeling very hopeful about better health outcomes for people with disability in the future.
Curtin University Courses Information Sessions
The Curtain School Allied Health offer the courses Graduate Certificate in Complex Communication Needs and Graduate Certificate in Positive Behaviour Support. Two post graduate qualifications, designed to support excellence in practice when working with people with disability.
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