The Summer Foundation and the Housing Hub, host a range of face-to-face and online workshops for a wide range of audiences Australia-wide.
Housing Hub Training
NDIS and mainstream housing
Learn about mainstream and non-SDA housing, home modifications and assistive technology and capacity building supports to help a person with disability explore suitable mainstream housing.
Wednesday 28 February 10.30am – 1.30pm (AEDT)
Risky Business: Best practice for enabling positive risk
After this workshop you will have a better understanding of how to support people with disability to make decisions about their life that may involve risk, while minimising potential harm.
Tuesday 5 March 10 – 11.30am (AEDT)
Applying for SDA: Eligibility and evidence for positive outcomes
Learn about the SDA Rules, SDA eligibility and the evidence required for an SDA application.
Wednesday 13 March 11am – 2.30pm (AEDT)
Designing individualised Home and Living supports
Learn how to explore and design an ordinary life through individualised support.
Wednesday 20 March 10am – 1.30pm (AEDT)
Best Practice: NDIS and Aged Care
Self paced eLearning
Equip yourself with the knowledge to support NDIS participants living in RAC. This course will look at the NDIS and Aged Care interface, provide key information for your toolkit, and provide information on who should fund what.
NDIS Record Keeping
Self paced eLearning
Learn about record keeping and how to ensure you adhere to best practice standards. This module will provide the foundational knowledge of best practice and what is learned in this module can be applied to organisational frameworks.
Housing Options events
Exploring Supported Independent Living
(In-person and online)
If you are a person with disability who wants to know more about Supported Independent Living (SIL), this information session will help you to understand what it is, how it works and if it may be right for you.
Monday 4 March 12 – 1pm (AEDT)
Housing options for people with disability
This webinar is for people with disability, their families, and support workers. While support coordinators, allied health professionals and support providers are welcome to attend, they may find our Housing Hub Training sessions better meet their needs.
Guided by people with lived experience, this recorded session provides a unique opportunity for participants to pose questions using the Zoom Q&A feature throughout the presentation.
Tuesday 12 March 11.30am – 12.30pm (AEDT)
Wednesday 3 April 1 – 2pm (AEDT)
Rent in Specialist Disability Accommodation – Webinar
Specialist Disability Accommodation (SDA) is housing that has been specially designed for people who have very high disability support needs.
If you are eligible for SDA, the SDA funding in your NDIS Plan goes directly to your SDA landlord, but you will usually have to pay rent too.
Thursday 4th Apr 2024 1 – 2pm (AEDT)
Understanding Robust and IL SDA
(In-person and online)
If you are a person with disability who wants to know more about Robust and Improved Livability SDA, this information session will help you to understand what it is, how it works and if it may be right for you.
Monday 15 April 2 – 3.15pm (AEDT)