A Home of My Own: Right, Rhetoric or Reality? Family Advocacy (NSW)
This resource aims to assist people with disability and their families to achieve the dream of living in a home of one’s own by providing information about housing and support options in NSW.
A Place to Call Home: Thinking it Through Pave the Way (QLD)
This resource helps families think about the future of their relatives with a disability and helps families acknowledge, that the future really does begin today rather than at some distant time in the future, and that families need to start planning now for the best possible life they can imagine for their family member.
The Homes West Experience: Steps to Independent Living for Adults with Disability Homes West(QLD)
This resource aims to address three key points in times where a quality service is pivotal in an adult’s life. They are, getting started, living in the community – moving into a home of your own, the next generation – when parents are no longer around.The three sections provide information gained from real life experiences.
Individual Supported Living Manual Professor Erroll Cocks, Monique Williamson and Doctor Stian H Thoresen(AUS)
The purpose of this Manual is to assist people to plan or establish a supported living arrangement and to identify what is working well and what can be improved in existing arrangements.
Looking Forward to Community Living Disability Services Commission (WA)
The booklet outlines the building blocks to establishing successful community living, provides practical examples of models of community living support, and contains information on the new Framework for Community Living, the Community Living Support Funding Strategy and useful resource materials.
Living our dreams: Alternatives to traditional residential options Community Living British Columbia (Canada)
Living Our Dreams introduces you to people from British Columbia who are thriving in homes they have chosen. Although not without a few twists and turns along the way, the individuals profiled in this guide are definitely living their dreams. Having a home of their own has allowed them to express their individuality. It has provided them with a sense of control over their lives and an understanding that their preferences and choices are respected.
Supported Living: Making the Move National Development Team for Inclusion (UK)
Collective Action Group (QLD)
The Collective Action Group has been successful in gaining funds to establish an innovative project which enables the personalised support arrangements for 10 people with disability. This is their story.
Examples of Lifestyle Supports
This document provides a summary of examples of innovative approaches
to lifestyle support for people with disability both within Australia and
overseas.
Typical Lives, Creative Responses Homes West Association (QLD)
Housing and support for people with ‘challenging behaviour’ – some
guidance Michael Kendrick
Through asking the right questions you can reach your destination Research and Training Center on Community Living
The contents of this online guide are based upon information family members have indicated is important to consider when making decisions about which agencies are best suited to meet the support needs of persons with disabilities.
Getting to know you: Planning for services in supported living (USA)
Choreographing Life Homes West Association (QLD)