Good Assistance

Some tips on how to provide good assistance when supporting a person with decision making.

Getting to Know The Person

This video highlights the importance of really getting to know a person for successful supported decision making.

The La Trobe Support for Decision Making Practice Framework Workbook

This online learning resource is about support for decision making. It will present the first evidence-based framework to guide you through the process of supporting people with cognitive disabilities to make decisions. Using this framework will help you to enable the people you support to exercise choice and control in their own lives.

The La Trobe Support for Decision Making Practice Framework Learning Resource

This online learning resource is about support for decision making. It will present the first evidence-based framework to guide you through the process of supporting people with cognitive disabilities to make decisions. Using this framework will help you to enable the people you support to exercise choice and control in their own lives.

Promoting Rights and Interests: Supported Decision Making Annual Report

This report will reconsider the Stepped Model of Supported and Substitute Decision Making, the supported decision-making approach used in the South Australian Project, and the results of that project. This summary in this year’s Annual Report seeks to bring together this information.

Evaluation of Supported Decision Making Project in SA

This evaluation report is in several parts. It provides background to the project. It includes a section on findings from the evaluation, with particular attention given to the experience of the project participants and their supporters. The report includes four stories from people with disabilities who were participants in the project. It also includes a section on issues to consider in the further development of Supported Decision Making in South Australia.

Funded by the Australian Government Department of Social Services. Go to www.dss.gov.au for more information.
These resources are in the process of being transferred to Inclusion Solutions. Click here to visit their website.

A resource of WA Individualised Services.