Auckland Disability Providers Network Inc.

Hon Tariana Turia
Associate Minister for Disability Issues

Building collaborative working partnerships: providers & government

Contracts: alterations to contracts, the process, format and outcomes.
Training and workforce development
Planning for the next 5 years: the Parliamentary Enquiry; The relevance of the Disability Strategy
The difficulties of working between Government Departments eg. Ministry of Health, MSD, ACC, CYFS. What can we do to bridge the divide between these departments with particular regard to funding

M.C: Brian Emery, Te Roopu Taurima O Manukau Trust

60 tickets only

Friday 26th June 2009

Barrycourt Conference Centre
Endeavour Room
10 – 20 Gladstone Road
Parnell

Programme
12.30
Registrations
1.00
Group discussions/networking + coffee and muffins
2.00
Welcome Minister Tariana Turia – Powhiri – whakatau
Minister speaks briefly
Open for questions
3.30
Close

Costs:
ADPN member organisations* $25 per person
Non members $40 per person

Payment required with booking.
(Please include organisation name and names of those attending)

Note: all bookings must be paid for.

Payment:
Cheques to: Auckland Disability Providers Network
Post to: ADPN, PO Box 13385, Onehunga, Auckland 1061

Electronic payment may be made to: 010178 0039199 00
(Please email notification to info@adpn.org.nz)

*Membership form available – contact: info@adpn.org.nz

Valet parking: phone Barrycourt: 09 303 3789

Many of you will know Ray Murray, Formerly Director, Centre for Special Education,
Auckland College of Education. Here is Ray’s account of his activities since he moved to Ireland.

I moved to Dublin, Ireland in November 2004, expecting to take up the role of house husband and support to my wife, Patricia O’Brien. Patricia had won a position as the first Director of the National Institute for Intellectual Disability at the University of Dublin, Trinity College with a brief to promote better lives for people with intellectual disability through education, research and advocacy. Within eighteen months I found I was launched into a second career in disability. (more…)

FORUM

The Hon Paula Bennett
Minister for Disability Issues

Hear first hand the direction the National Led Government will take with the
Disability Sector
There will be an opportunity to ask questions from the floor. Questions sent to the ADPN (info@adpn.org.nz) by 31st March 09 will be forwarded to the Minister prior to the meeting

Friday, 17th April 2009

Western Springs Garden Community Hall
(next to Valentines Restaurant)
956-990 Great North Road
Point Chevalier
Auckland 1022

Programme
Registrations 9.30
Discussion 10.00
Powhiri for Hon Paula Bennett 10.30
Morning tea
Forum 11.00
Close 12.30

Book NOW – this is going to be a popular event

Costs: ADPN member organisations* $25 per person
Non members $40 per person

Payment required with booking.
(Please include organisation name and names of those attending)

Payment: Cheques to: Auckland Disability Providers Network. Postal address below
Electronic payment may be made to: 010178 0039199 00 Please email notification

*Membership form available – contact: info@adpn.org.nz

“Inquiry into the quality of care and service provision for people with disabilities” published September 2009

http://www.odi.govt.nz/nzds/progress-review/index.html

Have your say about a Single Umbrella Group for the Disability Sector

‘United we stand, divided we fall’ is an old saying that is getting a new breath of life in the discussion about the establishment of a single umbrella group for the disability support sector in New Zealand.

The meeting is intended to provide you with an opportunity to consider the benefits of this proposed development to follow on from a discussion paper commissioned by a board composed of chairs of NRID, VASS, SLNZ and ASENZ authored by Jan Dowland.

We want to hear your views about the pros and cons of the concept and your ideas about building the reality of a single umbrella (or peak) body that adds value to your organisation and the disabled people we serve.

Read the executive summary of the discussion paper in this website.

We gratefully acknowledge Spectrum Care for offering this free forum

Seats will be limited so it is essential to book.
Please send names and contact details to
phone 09 636 0834
email info@adpn.org.nz

Wednesday 18th March 2009

Barrycourt Conference Centre
10 – 20 Gladstone Road
Parnell

Registrations 9.30 am
Forum 10.00 am to 12.30 pm
Morning tea included

PARKING: Mobility card users: valet parking available on request
(Best to phone and book with Barrycourt: 09 303 3789)

Parking on site or street – please note the centre is fully booked this day, so don’t leave it until the last
minute.