Faith Community Inclusion Forum: The Inclusion Designlab

The Inclusion Designlab invites you to:

Faith Community Inclusion Forum
Encouraging greater participation of people with disability in their chosen faith

Date: Wednesday 23 March 2016      Time: 2pm to 4pm
Location: 67 Sutherland Rd, Armadale 3143

You are invited to an innovative dialogue between faith communities, disability support organisations, families and advocates.

Inclusion Designlab is conducting a short community forum that aims to demystify the roles of disability support organisations and faith communities in encouraging greater participation of people with intellectual disability in their chosen faith. This forum is being conducted as part of a faith participation and community inclusion project conducted by Inclusion Melbourne. A 12 month trial has been conducted, with the intention of connecting and including people with an intellectual disability with their chosen faith community.

The topics that will be discussed include:

• Staff as facilitators of Faith Inclusion
• Risk perception
• Faith vs Spirituality vs Meaning vs Faith community
• Is there a model to support people with disability in faith communities?
• Navigating cultural traditions
• Buy-in from family, friends and advocates
• Genuine welcome in the community
• What are good outcomes? What is good support?

Why do we want your input?

• Your expertise and opinion in supporting people with intellectual disability to access places of worship.
• You are the expert. Through collaborating with you we hope to create a valuable resource that will assist all faith communities and disability service providers to navigate the process of supporting a person to be included in a faith community.

RSVP or more information: Alice Nicholas or Nathan Despott | 03 9509 4266 | projects@inclusiondesignlab.org.au | www.inclusiondesignlab.org.au