At the beginning of the year CID My Rights Matter team went to Geelong to speak at Having a Say Conference 2023.

Victorian Advocacy League for Individuals with Disability hosted the Conference.

VALID for short.

Disability organisations from around Australia met at this Conference.

There were workshops about many different things including

• Easy read health information

• Internet safety

• Relationship safety

• Improving the justice system

The My Rights Matter team talked about their work on supported decision making.

Ricky and Alexander presented on both days of the Conference.

Ricky and Alexander did a presentation about CID’s Supported Decision Making Framework.

You can read our Easy Read Supported Decision Making Framework at the link below.

You can watch a video about the Supported Decision Making Framework at the link below.

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

People with intellectual disability can make decisions with the right supports.

We talked about decision making rights.

Ricky and Alexander hosted a workshop called Decision Making Conversations.

We asked people to think about decisions using a decision card.

You can find our Supported Decision Making Conversation Cards at the link below.

The story on the decision card was about choosing a new job.

There was a lot of discussion about what to do.

Some people said the person in the story could talk to a disability employment agency.

Others said he could talk to his parents for advice.

Making new decisions can be hard.

We wanted everyone to know that

• Everyone has the right to make decisions

• Everyone has the right to take risks

• Everyone has the right to support

• Everyone should respect what a person decides

Go to the link below for more information on our work on supported decision making.