Supported Decision Making Hub - Council for Intellectual Disability

What is supported decision making?

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

This video shows how people with intellectual disability should be supported when making decisions.

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

Why supported decision making is important

People make decisions every day. Sometimes decisions are big or small. Sometimes making a decision can feel easy or hard.

Everyone needs support to make decisions. Support can come from family, friends, professionals or other people in the community.

Support can also come from the way that we do things. This can be giving plenty of time for making decisions or having information in Easy Read.

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

Learn more with the Supported Decision Making Framework and the Easy Read Supported Decision Making Framework.

What we are doing

CID has made videos, resources and blog posts about supported decision making. You can see them at the links below.

CID also supported projects through the My Rights Matter Grants.

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Decision makers

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Supporters

A group of people with and without intellectual disability talking and laughing.

Everyone

Top supported decision making resources

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Our position statement on supported decision making and guardianship law

People with intellectual disability should get support to make their own decisions. Read our statement.

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Supported Decision Making Framework

Supported decision making is about people with disability being at the centre of their own decisions.

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Easy Read Supported Decision Making Framework

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

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Top supported decision making stories

A man with intellectual disability and his supporter talk about a document together.

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.

A group of CID staff from the My Rights Matter team stand together in a conference room.

My Rights Matter at the Having a Say conference

Alexander Elliott, a project worker with lived experience, shares his experience at the Having a Say conference.

Photos of participants in our peer mentoring group.

Growing together in decisions

Here are some experiences from the peer mentoring group we had in 2022.

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