2006-2007 Annual Report - Disability Services Commission

1.1 Executive Summary
promoting the Getting Services Right information package for Aboriginal people
with disabilities, their families and service providers across Western Australia;
completing the first year of the Commission’s Substantive Equality Five Year
Plan for people from Aboriginal and culturally and linguistically diverse
backgrounds;
distributing grants through the Western Australian Local Government
Association to local governments across the State to develop and implement
You’re Welcome – Western Australian Access Strategy packages;
continuing to raise community awareness on disability issues through the Count
Us In campaign which included media advertising and a new website;
distributing the Count Us In! curriculum support package to all WA schools. The
package promotes disability awareness; and
presenting the first report on Disability Access and Inclusion Plans (DAIP) to
Parliament in December 2006. Resources and training for DAIP were also
developed and distributed.
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