Milparinka is a support service that assists people with disabilities to pursue lifestyles that include the same opportunities that all members of the community expect and enjoy.
We seek to be:
- A place that people come to because they believe it can help them to achieve a good life and lifestyle that makes sense to them
- A resource for better thinking and creative responses and pathways in peoples lives.
- A network of relationships and partnerships that bring about connections and opportunities for people in their communities.
- A resource centre that puts together packages of supports for individuals based on their unique needs and wants.
- A service which has the processes and community connections to enable us to fluidly and creatively respond to individuals achieving their own ambitions.We work with many different agencies and community places to bring about the best opportunuties for people.
How we assist people varies from person to person as what makes sense for one person may not make sense for someone else. Milparinka emphasises people and their families having greater authority and control over all aspects of their supports and the provision of supports that fit into and make sense in the context of their lives.
At Milparinka we support people in a range of ways. More and more people are supported to imagine better and access personalised and individualised arrangements in community places where they may be supported by, and connected to, a range of people including natural and unpaid supports and/or paid staff. Other people are supported in group activities, during the week and in our respite programs on the weekends and holidays, alongside other people with disabilities.
- Nuturing Friendship and Connection - An opportunity to think about this Relationships are one of the most crucial factors in a person’s life. This workshop gives you a chance to think about this issue.
- Partnership – What’s It About? Places like Milparinka often talk about being in partnership with others to bring about opportunities for people. What do we mean when we say partnership.
- Your right: Sharing your own information Our User Portal gives service users at Milparinka ownership of a web page where you can store up to date information, for example communication aids, personal care plans or just preferences that are important to you, that can be accessed by people and services who you give permission to. You don’t have to know about the web to do this. Milparinka will manage the page under your direction of what should be on it and who should get access.
- Michael Kendrick works with families and staff at Milparinka to think about what works. Michael Kendrick speaks with families and individuals at Milparinka about how their lives and supports have changed because of personalised and individualised supports.
- Michael Kendrick works with families and staff at Milparinka to think about what works. Michael Kendrick speaks with families and individuals at Milparinka about how their lives and supports have changed because of personalised and individualised supports.
