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Improving the positive impact of disability services on the lives of Image Source: Red Dust Heelers Facebook page Image Source: Red Dust Heelers Facebook page Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people with disabilities in remote Australia

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Improving the positive impact of disability services on the lives of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people with disabilities in remote Australia

Steve Fisher & Maureen Abbott

National Rural Health Conference 29th April

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Disability in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities

(AATSIHS 2013; AIHW 2015)

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders make up 16% of the population in remote areas

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Disability in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities

(AATSIHS 2013; AIHW 2015)

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders make up 16% of the population in remote areas (48% in very remote areas)

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Disability in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities

(AATSIHS 2013; AIHW 2015)

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders make up 16% of the population in remote areas (48% in very remote areas) In 2012, only 13% of Aboriginal people accessing disability services nationally lived in a remote or very remote area

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Disability in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities

(AATSIHS 2013; AIHW 2015)

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders make up 16% of the population in remote areas (48% in very remote areas) In 2012, only 13% of Aboriginal people accessing disability services nationally lived in a remote or very remote area 35.7% of ATSI population living with a disability

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Disability in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities

(AATSIHS 2013; AIHW 2015)

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders make up 16% of the population in remote areas (48% in very remote areas) In 2012, only 13% of Aboriginal people accessing disability services nationally lived in a remote or very remote area 35.7% of ATSI population living with a disability and are 1.7 times more likely to live with disability than non-Aboriginal Australians

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Participation

Disability-inclusive development

Poverty reduction Equality

Inclusion Integration

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NDIS: The missing link

Innovation & quality Role of carers Remote Aboriginal context requires more concerted effort to achieve. Advocacy Active empowerment

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Lessons from Ninti One

  • Passive response

to services

  • Low knowledge

about disability

  • Uneven standards
  • Cross-cultural capacity

under-developed

  • Lack of local disability

advocacy groups

  • Transactional rather

than transformative

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Recommendations

Research

  • Alongside Aboriginal people in

remote settings

  • Determine reach, coverage and

character of disability and services

Raise awareness

  • Emphasis: role of the wider

community

  • Aim: tackling local obstacles and

stigma

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Recommendations

Close the Disability Gap

  • Introduce new target into COAG’s

Closing the Gap framework

  • Aim: to decrease the significantly

greater chance of ATSI people to be living with a disability

Build knowledge and skills

  • Augment National Disability

strategy

  • Aim: emphasise importance of

knowledge and inclusion for enabling self-advocacy

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Recommendations

Transformative services

  • Develop specific plan alongside

ATSI organisations

  • Links education and inclusion to

advocacy and empowerment strategies

Culturally appropriate services

  • Train staff to work more effectively

across cultures

  • Aim: increase accessibility of

disability services to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people

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Recommendations

Advocacy and empowerment

  • Build capacity of advocacy

networks empowering Aboriginal leaders

  • Invite advocacy networks to

advise and contribute to service improvement