September 26, 2018
DAPA Editor

Carers’ Week Celebration

Enjoy Cooking with Celebrity at a Restaurant

Instructors : Radio celebrity Cecilia Lau MKR celebrity Alfred Lau Menu Plan : Seafood (prawn, fish & vege) Mixed Hot Pot Portuguese Chicken Mystery dish Salad side dish Desert Place : Dragon on the Green Chinese Restaurant North Ryde Golf Club Corner of Lane Cove Rd & Twin Rd, Ryde. Time : 12 noon, Wednesday 10th October, 2018 Cost – $ 10 for carer/DAPA worker or $ 15 for pensioner & $ 20 for others RSVP by 3/10/2018 (email info@dap.asn.au or ring Vince on 0417418180) (more…)
September 26, 2018
DAPA Editor

Arts Classes & Living Skill Training

Arts Classes & Living Skill Training

Open one week only from 2nd October  2018

A limited number of seats for people with intellectual disability  aged from 6 to 24

Any time from 9 am to 2 pm weekdays.

Cost – $ 25 per hour or $ 125 per day for Non-NDIS participant
For NDIS participant, claim under 04_165_0136_6_1 or equivalent

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September 26, 2018
DAPA Editor

NEWSLETTER (August 2018)

NDIS–Transition to Mental Disability Support

Many mental patients have suffered disadvantage and/or withdrawn from their daily living and social activities. Sometimes they are prevented or discriminated from employment where support can be a remedy for them to be productive. It is this psychosocail disability that government’s Disability Inclusion Act should also address. Now NDIS has realised that some of the support may be permanent rather than simply a short term health issue. Mental recovery often requires a long term support-based environment that NDIS can supply whereas medication, as a sole treatment, may not provide.
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