My Rights Matter

Supported Decision Making Hub

What is supported decision making

Supported decision making is when someone helps you make more of your own decisions.

“Decision making is very much a process. It’s a lifestyle. It’s not an event or a moment in time. It’s a way of relating to people.”
Jacquie Mills

  • Why is supported decision making important?

    People make decisions every day.

    Sometimes these decisions are big or small, they can also feel easy or hard.

    Everyone needs support to make decisions.

    This support can come from family, friends, professionals or other people in the community.

    People can also be supported to make decisions by changing things around them to make it easier. This can include things like having information in Easy Read or having extra time to think about it.

    Sometimes people may want to give something a go before committing to a decision.

    Supported decision making is important because it is about what people want and need for their own life.

    Watch our video about supported decision making.

    “If you make decisions for yourself, that’s it, you’re free.” Len Robinson

    Download the Easy Read Supported Decision Making Framework
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  • What is the My Rights Matter Project?

    My Rights Matter is a project about supported decision making.

    My Rights Matter will run until July 2024.

    The project will help people

    • Learn about the rights of people with disability
    • Make new decisions in their life
    • Engage with supports to achieve what they want.
    Read the easy read info about the project
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  • Grants

    We gave grants to people and organisations for projects about supported decision making.

    Learn more about grants
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Supported decision making resources

My Rights Matter SDM Hub

A message to the NSW Guardianship law reform working group from people with lived experience

A new guardianship law would let people with disability make their own everyday choices and big life decisions.

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Equal Right to Decide

‘Equal Right to Decide’ is about human rights and decision making in Australia. We wrote it with people…

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Deciding With Support

Deciding with Support helps everyone feel more confident supporting people with disability to make decisions about their behaviour…

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Supported decision making stories

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Supported Decision Making and Guardianship - Disability Royal Commission Final Report

The Disability Royal Commission calls for more independence for people with disability through supported decision making.

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Grantees for My Rights Matter

CID gave grants to 5 projects about supported decision making. These are the projects that we gave funding…

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My Rights Matter at the Having a Say conference

Alexander Elliott, a project worker with lived experience, shares his experience attending and presenting at the Having a…

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Upcoming Workshops

Upcoming Workshops

Workshops to help build decision making skills for people with intellectual disability and their supporters.

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Supported Decision Making Peer Mentor Group

Supported Decision Making Peer Mentor Group

The peer mentor group explores supported decision making. The group is run by and for people with intellectual disability.

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Become a Champion

Become a Champion

We are looking for leaders to raise awareness and build supported decision making capability in their communities and organisations.

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Contact us

If you want to know more about My Rights Matter and supported decision making please phone 1800 424 065, email sdm@cid.org.au or fill out this form.

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