26 September 2023

Disability website enabled for champions

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A new service provided through the Department of Seniors, Disability Services and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders Partnerships is to see more than a million Queenslanders with disabilities and their carers connecting to local disability champions.

The new, virtual community is also aimed at helping them get involved with the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS).

Minister for Seniors and Disability Services, Craig Crawford said the newly overhauled website for the Queenslanders with Disability Network (QDN) had been purpose-built and designed by the disabled and their advocates for the one-in-five Queenslanders living with disability.

He said the QDN and the work of local champions on the Disability Outreach and Connect Program had helped some of the State’s 1,562 new NDIS participants access support totalling more than $121 million.

“It’s important Queenslanders with disability can access timely, reliable information and resources around a broad range of areas that impact upon their lives,” Mr Crawford said.

“Having this co-designed and co-delivered by people with disability helps to make it more user-friendly.”

Chair of the QDN Board, Des Ryan, a local champion in Rockhampton, said making sure that Queenslanders with disability were empowered and active citizens was important to the QDN’s work.

“An important part of this is having access to information,” Mr Ryan said.

“I am proud of the QDN’s work that is on our website,’’ he said.

Chief Executive Officer of the QDN, Paige Armstrong (pictured) said the website had been informed by targeted user research, customer journey mapping and user testing by people with disability and key stakeholders.

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