of the Chief Executives’ Group on Disability Issues and DPOs on 21 November 2014. Work will commence in early 2015. It will include supporting the joint capacity and capability building of DPOs and identification of engagement champions within government agencies. Enabling Good Lives Enabling Good Lives represents a new way of providing disability support. Enabling Good Lives gives disabled people and their families more choice over the support they receive. While 2014 is just the second year of demonstrating the Enabling Good Lives approach to supporting disabled people, it was significant as key decisions were made regarding: expansion of the Christchurch demonstration to phase two approval to proceed with a high level design for a demonstration in the Waikato. The Enabling Good Lives approach began in 2011 with the release of an independent report. It recommended a fundamental shift to a cross-government disability support system to give disabled people, their families and whānau greater choice and control over their supports and their everyday lives. In July 2013, Cabinet agreed to a three-year demonstration of the Enabling Good Lives approach in Christchurch. Enabling Good Lives is a strengths-based, person-centred approach which means that disabled people can decide what works best for them to meet their aspirations rather than being forced to fit into funding and service boxes that predetermine what they can and cannot do. This includes employing support workers they choose, and doing everyday things in everyday places in the community.
of the Chief Executives’ Group on Disability Issues and DPOs on 21 November 2014. Work will commence in early 2015. It will include supporting the joint capacity and capability building of DPOs and identification of engagement champions within government agencies. Enabling Good Lives Enabling Good Lives represents a new way of providing disability support. Enabling Good Lives gives disabled people and their families more choice over the support they receive. While 2014 is just the second year of demonstrating the Enabling Good Lives approach to supporting disabled people, it was significant as key decisions were made regarding: expansion of the Christchurch demonstration to phase two approval to proceed with a high level design for a demonstration in the Waikato. The Enabling Good Lives approach began in 2011 with the release of an independent report. It recommended a fundamental shift to a cross-government disability support system to give disabled people, their families and whānau greater choice and control over their supports and their everyday lives. In July 2013, Cabinet agreed to a three-year demonstration of the Enabling Good Lives approach in Christchurch. Enabling Good Lives is a strengths-based, person-centred approach which means that disabled people can decide what works best for them to meet their aspirations rather than being forced to fit into funding and service boxes that predetermine what they can and cannot do. This includes employing support workers they choose, and doing everyday things in everyday places in the community.
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