Skip to content

Strengthening Disability Advocacy Conference 2016: Putting Rights Centre Stage

Evaluation Form

1.Rights Retrospective, Thursday 1st September 2016, 1:30-3:30pm
A multimedia celebration of 30 years of funded disability advocacy.
Strongly Disagree
Disagree
Agree
Strongly Agree
Themes were interesting and significant
Panellists were engaging and insightful
Facilitator controlled the session well
I enjoyed this session
2.Rights Camera Action: Advocacy Beyond 2016
How do advocates bring issues to the notice of the general public and decision makers now that the punk and union movements are no longer getting behind causes and organising mass rallies? Does it means that we now advocate for change using online petitions and paper, or are those mass rallies still effective enough to drive change?

Facilitator: George Taleporos
Panellists: Mary Mallett, Jax (Jacki) Brown, Susan Arthur & Isabelle Oderberg

Strongly Disagree
Disagree
Agree
Strongly Agree
Topic was interesting and useful
Panellists were engaging and insightful
Facilitator controlled the session well
I enjoyed this session
3.Enter Stage Rights: Applying a human rights approach to a person- centred service delivery
What role can or should disability advocacy play in the future landscape of consumer directed service delivery? How do we make sure  that mainstream services are made accessible to  people with disability there will also be some discussion around what is best practice- what will this look like? 

Facilitator: Robyn Gaile,
Panellists: Louise Glanville, Daniel Leighton, Christina Ryan & Leonie Dillon
Strongly Disagree
Disagree
Agree
Strongly Agree
Topic was interesting and useful
Panellists were engaging and insightful
Facilitator controlled the session well
I enjoyed this session
4.Spotlight: when rights go wrong
How can we protect those most vulnerable from Abuse and Neglect? Are we spending more time on getting quality assurance processes right at the expense of the needs and human rights of people with disability? This discussion will draw on the recent glut of inquiries, reviews and investigations to discuss the role of advocacy in safeguarding against abuse and neglect. 

Facilitator: Lauren Henley
Panellists: MP Maree Edwards, Deborah Glass, Trevor Carroll & Dr Patsie Frawley.
Strongly Disagree
Disagree
Agree
Strongly Agree
Topic was interesting and useful
Panellists were engaging and insightful
Facilitator controlled session well
I enjoyed this session
5.Righting the script: Removing legislative and cultural barriers facing people with disability
Legal instruments such as the Disability Discrimination Act, the State Disability Plan and the Victorian Charter are often used by advocates to defend the rights of people with disability. The discussion will focus on how these instruments might work in an NDIS environment and what still needs to happen to shift societal behaviors, attitudes and assumptions towards people with disability.

Facilitator: Tricia Malowney
Panellists: Alastair McEwin, Professor Keith McVilly, Sharon Granek & Catherine Dixon.

Strongly Disagree
Disagree
Agree
Strongly Agree
Topic was interesting and useful
Panellists were engaging and insightful
Facilitator controlled session well
I enjoyed this session
6.How did you hear about this conference?
7.Are there topics and presenters you would like to see again?
8.What did you like most about this conference?
9.What did you like least about this conference?
10.What topics would you like to see covered for the next Strengthening Disability Advocacy Conference?
11.Any other comments?
Thank you for completing this evaluation!
Your answers help us to choose topics and presenters that best suit your needs for future conferences.

We hope you enjoyed SDAC16, Putting Rights Centre Stage!