Elements and Performance Criteria
- Plan community support in conjunction with people with a disability
- Identify individual preferences
- Determine individual's current skills and identify opportunities which provide maximum chance of success
- Provide information on options and services available to people with a disability
- Identify support requirements of people with a disability
- Utilise appropriate communication styles
- Empower people with a disability to communicate their needs and choices
- Use positive images of people with a disability to ensure positive interactions
- Assist people with a disability to develop their personal networks
- Provide information and resources to facilitate participation in recreation activities for people with a disability, including assistive technology
- Utilise strategies which respect difference in communications
- Identify and establish effective environments for empowering people with a disability
- Assist people with a disability to establish relationships with key people
- Identify key people and organisations that can assist people with a disability
- Clearly communicate roles and responsibilities of these people and their organisations to people with a disability, including reasonable community expectation
- Provide strategies to develop and maintain relationships with key people on an individual basis
- Apply strategies for linking people with a disability to recreation opportunities
- Create opportunities to develop supportive connections
- Identify potential and real barriers to participation and implement effective strategies to address them
- Monitor and review the strategies utilised to link people with a disability to recreation opportunities
- Develop further strategies to maximise independence and inclusion
- Identify and communicate opportunities beyond the program/activity to people with a disability