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On Thursday 17 October 2024 we gathered to have an important conversation about increasing housing and living options for people with disability in Australia.

If you missed the event, you can watch the full recording of the forum below.

Source: The Conversation | Author: Di Winkler

Welcome to our new-look bi-monthly newsletter – Summer Foundation Focus.

Our role at the Summer Foundation is to influence others to change the systems that lead to young people living in aged care. 

We are very keen to work with the Federal Government to stop the flow of young people into aged care.

Source: The Age – Henrietta Cook | Photo: Xavier Edwards and his father, Jase, in the Royal Children’s Hospital – Photographer: Wayne Taylor

The National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) was designed to be a market-based system that would shift power from government and providers to consumers.

The Summer Foundation would like to thank Selina Short for her service as a Director on the Summer Foundation board. Selina joined the Board on 17 November 2020.  

We wish Selina the very best and thank her warmly for her service to Summer Foundation. 

This paper draws on the evidence provided by a series of workshops and interviews with on-site support providers, SDA providers, and tenants living in SDA apartments.

We are seeking input from support providers for improving the report and the recommendations. Please contact us by 30 June 2022. 

The pre-election federal budget should include an extra $50 million to help get NDIS participants out of hospital and into suitable housing, according to a leading advocacy group.

Source: ABC News |   Author: Nas Campanella

Source: Pro Bono |   Author:  Sabina Curatolo & Di Winkler

Source: Australian Financial Review |   Author:  Michael Bleby

Source: The Urban Developer |   Author:  Di Winkler

Australia’s building ministers at their meeting on April 30 decided to include minimum accessibility standards in the 2022 National Construction Code (NCC).

Source: Probono Australia |   Author: Di Winkler & Peter Mulherin

Australia’s building ministers have decided to include accessible design features in the National Construction Code. Di Winkler and Peter Mulherin look at what that means.

Source: Probono Australia |  Author:  Di Winkler & Peter Mulherin

This Friday, Australia’s Building Ministers will choose whether accessibility standards will be voluntary or mandatory in the 2022 National Construction Code.

A new Summer Foundation resource is the first step in finding housing and moving patients with disability along the hospital discharge pathway more efficiently.

The Summer Foundation believes that the proposed midyear rollout of independent assessments should be postponed and an evidence based pilot, co-designed with people with disability, disability organisations and other experts in the field implemented.

Source: ABC Radio National with Fran Kelly | Reporter: Eleni Psaltis | Image: James Hancock

Source: Australian Ageing Agenda  |  Author: Di Winkler

Our ageing population demands more accessible housing, writes Dr Di Winkler.

Source: Probono Australia  |  Author: Di Winkler and Peter Mulherin

Source: ProBono  |  Author: Dr Di Winkler and Alecia Rathbone

People with high or complex disability support needs have traditionally had extremely…

Source: The Guardian  |  Author: Caro Llewellyn

My childhood was spent navigating my father’s disability. Then I was told I was facing…

Source: Pro Bono  |  Author: Dr Di Winker & Dr Peter Mulherin

Source: Australian Ageing Agenda |   Author:  Amelia Condi

There’s support for aged care providers as they transition to NDIS and start providing more choice and control for people with disability, writes Amelia Condi.

Source: Probono Australia  |  Author: Di Winkler

Source: ABC News |   Author:  Baz Ruddick/strong>