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Come along and join Drumchapel Disabled Action 2 for their 2011 Fundraiser Event!
Where: GOODYEAR SOCIAL CLUB
When: FRIDAY 25th FEBRUARY 2011
Doors Open 7.30pm—Late
All Proceeds go to Antonine Court
Tickets £5.00
Disco
Buffet
Raffle & Tombola
Football Cards
Drumchapel Disabled Action 2 would like to give special thanks to the Goodyear for donating the function Suite.
Free Training Opportunity
Do you support someone in the Glasgow area?
If so this is a chance for you to take part in a pilot training programme empowering people to shape their own lives and helping them to achieve their goals.
SCLD; VIAS and Empower have designed a 5 day course for support workers, personal assistants to build on the skills of working with people who have a disability ensuring they have choice and control in accessing life opportunities. The course combines best practice in person centred planning and systematic instructional techniques.
As this is a pilot project, course costs are absolutely free.
All that we ask is that you commit to the 5 day programme and help us to research its effectiveness by answering some questions before and after you complete the training. We will do our best to make your time commitment as little as possible.
Download the training flyer for additional information. Don’t miss out on becoming part of an exciting development.
Book now to avoid disappointment.
“Are You Being Served?: Disabled people’s voices & Co-production in challenging times”
“Co-production is a new vision for public services which offers a better way to respond to the challenges we face - based on recognising the resources that citizens already have, and delivering services with rather than for service users, their families and their neighbours, ” NESTA 2010.
A free, half-day conference organised by Glasgow’s leading representative disabled people’s organisation, Glasgow Disability Alliance will explore Co-production as an approach in transforming public services, consider the honest challenges of Co-production and look at ways of making it work effectively. The Conference will be followed by an Elections Hustings in the afternoon and you are warmly invited to join us for this too.
Funded by Glasgow City Council, the Conference will provide an opportunity for public sector partners and agencies to come together with disabled people who use their services, hear examples of where Co-production is working well and begin an honest dialogue about barriers and solutions for getting co-production right.
The event aims:
Who should attend: senior officers and decision makers with responsibility for planning, designing and delivering services to disabled people and aiming to involve disabled people in co-production.
When: Friday 25th March from 10am (registration) to 12.30. This will be followed by an Elections Hustings from 1.45 to 3.45pm.
Where: Thistle Hotel, Cambridge Street, Glasgow
Speakers include:
Chair: Tressa Burke, Director, Glasgow Disability Alliance
GDA amongst other disabled people’s organisations is aware of the pressure to cut public expenditure and the negative impact of this: it is our ambition to promote Co-production, as this approach recognises that, while professional expertise is vital, it can never replace the knowledge that comes from personal experience-
real change comes from combining both these sources of knowledge (Nesta 2010).
GDA do hope you will be able to join them at what promises to be an engaging, lively and informative event - one where you will get the opportunity to deepen your understanding of co-production, hear directly from both senior officials and disabled people who have experienced this approach, and share your knowledge and insight with colleagues from across Glasgow and even further afield!
Please contact GDA to book a place by calling 0141 556 7103 or download and complete the Reply Form and email to shirleycoull@gdaonline.co.uk or fax it back to us on 0141 550 4937. Download event programme.
