AFDO submission to the National Mental Health and Disability Employment Strategy.

This discussion paper explores the particular support needs of HIV positive parents and their children when accessing PLWHA organisations. It will also suggest ideas for increasing participation of parents in community programmes, events and management structures.

Graham Douglas-Meyer surveys the current status of PLWHA and how the new government will affect changes that have already been made, as well as some thought for the future.

The Care and Support Snapshot Survey (CSSS) prepared by NAPWA asks and then listens to the perceptions of a range of positive people. It includes a number of questions about service needs, constituency and representation, geography and the policy and advocacy work of NAPWA through the lens of positive people.

This AFDO-produced paper provides background information on the many Australian Government funded employment and support services in the lead up to the introduction of the ‘welfare to work package’. The paper explores the major labour market programs or Employment Services programs, how they interact and how people with disability may be affected by the coming changes in policy.

Disabled people and those with chronic illnesses will be up to $122 per week worse off and could find themselves working for just $2.27 an hour under the government’s proposed welfare-to-work program, according to a new report.

NAPWA has made a written submission to the National Inquiry on Employment and Disability, which is examining the barriers faced by people with disabilities in seeking work, and issues for employers in recruiting, retaining or fully utilising employees with disabilities.