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The Now and Next Australasian Alumni
was launched at the Sydney 2017 International Initiative for Disability
Leadership. Program.
In
2018 they helped the NZ Alumni start up:
1. March: First Now and Next programs
sponsored by CCS Disability Action and ran in partnership with McKenzie Centre
in Hamilton. This group launched the NZ Alumni and started acting to spread
their learning with other families. At the outset of this group, parents created the Families Empowering Families organisation.
First NZ Alumni meeting |
2. April: Hori Barton a father alumni and Peer
Worker trainee presented with Trisha Benge, Manager, McKenzie Centre, Early
intervention: Barton, H and
Benge, T. (2018) Now and Next: A novel
partnership between families and professionals. NZDSN
Wellington.
3. September submission to the 2019
ISEI conference
Benge,
T. and Herbert, C. (2018) Family-led peer network: Translating knowledge across
cultures [https://now-and-next-alumni.blogspot.com/2018/11/collective-capacity-building.html]
4. September: Journal article submitted
for peer review:
Janson, A., Mahmic, S.,
Benge, T. & Herbert, C. (2018) How a transformational Collective Benefit
Mindset experience prompted parents raising children with disability to launch
a peer network.
5. October: Alumni presentation to
practitioners and medical doctors during a study day: Husseini,
M., Barton, H and Barton, R. (2018) Now and Next and its alumni, EIAANZ Study
day, McKenzie Centre https://now-and-next-alumni.blogspot.com/2018/08/nz-research-launch.html?view=magazine
6. October: Launch of the NZ Peer
Workers training program [http://now-and-next-alumni.blogspot.com/2018/11/nz-training-6-peer-facilitators.html].
Six Peer Facilitators in training from Culturally and Linguistically Diverse
Communities (CALD), amongst them 2 couples. These trainees will undergo a
comprehensive training programme (Pictability visioning and planning, online
and face to face facilitation training, participant-observer research
introduction, online real time data collection and analysis). Two Peer Workers
who contributed by volunteering with the child care crew. We have found that
offering childcare for parents to attend the Now and Next program is a critical
success element. A couple who had graduated from the first Now and Next program
brought their daughter along and joined the crew, along with 2 staff from CCS
Disability Action, in addition with the McKenzie staff. Contributing their
Saturdays to help other parents benefit from the program is an awesome
contribution!
7. November: Pictabilty Training
Graduation of a group of 12 professionals and parents at McKenzie Centre [photo
above]
7. November: Pecha Kucha presentation: Janson, A., Mahmic, S., Benge, T. and Herbert, C.
Positive Parent Education for families raising children with disability:
Supporting the emergence of a Collective Benefit Mindset. Presented at the New
Zealand Association of Positive Psychology, University of Waikato, Hamilton:
[https://now-and-next-alumni.blogspot.com/2018/11/nz-assoc-for-positive-psychology.html]
8. December 2018: The 2nd Now and Next group graduates
9. Feb-March 2019: Now and Next 3rd group
10. CEO IEP 3 meetings - implementing the Now and Next concepts and create new opportunities to build partnerships with professionals.
11. March: Presentation at the Good Start in Life committee
https://tinyurl.com/NZParents
8. December 2018: The 2nd Now and Next group graduates
9. Feb-March 2019: Now and Next 3rd group
10. CEO IEP 3 meetings - implementing the Now and Next concepts and create new opportunities to build partnerships with professionals.
Last March meeting - participants gave this the highest ratings of all courses! |
https://tinyurl.com/NZParents