Learn about how kids can speak up and make choices, and what parents can do to help support them
🧰 Resource Kit: Includes a Checklist, Links for further reading, a live workshop and recording with auto captions and transcript and other resource materials as appropriate.
🎥 Live Workshop Online: 20 March 2026 - 20 March 2026, 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM ACST (SA Time)
💲 Price: $0.00
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🧑 Self-Advocacy for Kids
FREE In-Person Workshop
🌟 This workshop helps kids learn how to speak up, make choices, and ask for help.🌟 Parents learn simple ways to support their child to use their voice and build confidence.
📍 Where and When
🧭 This is an in-person workshop.
📆 It is on Friday 20 March 2026.
🕤 It starts at 10:00 AM.
⌛ It will finish at 12:00 PM.
📍 It is in Whyalla at Mainstay Suites.
🏢 The address is 4 Moran Street, Whyalla SA 5608.
💰How Much Does It Cost 💵 It is free with grant funding.
🧒 Who Is It For 👨👩👧 This workshop is for parents and carers of disabled children.
🎂 It is suitable for children and young people.
🧠 All disabilities are welcome.
💬 What Is It About
🗣️ Helping disabled children learn how to speak up.
✅ Supporting children to make choices and ask for help.
🧡 Helping parents support their child’s confidence and independence.
🗣️ Helping disabled children learn how to speak up.
✅ Supporting children to make choices and ask for help.
🧡 Helping parents support their child’s confidence and independence.
💡 Why It Matters
💬 Helps children build confidence using their voice.
🤗 Supports parents to nurture independence in everyday life.
💬 Helps children build confidence using their voice.
🤗 Supports parents to nurture independence in everyday life.
❓ What Will You Learn
🧠 Why self-advocacy is an important life skill.
🗣️ How children can practise using their voice in everyday life.
🤝 How parents can encourage choice-making and independence.
💬 Simple ways to support confidence at home and in the community.
🧠 Why self-advocacy is an important life skill.
🗣️ How children can practise using their voice in everyday life.
🤝 How parents can encourage choice-making and independence.
💬 Simple ways to support confidence at home and in the community.
🎥 What Happens In The Workshop
👋 Meet the presenters.
💬 Talk about what self-advocacy really means.
🧍 Join simple activities and discussions.
📽️ Learn through real examples and lived experience.
📝 Take home practical tips and resources.
🗣️ Time for questions and shared discussion.
💬 Talk about what self-advocacy really means.
🧍 Join simple activities and discussions.
📽️ Learn through real examples and lived experience.
📝 Take home practical tips and resources.
🗣️ Time for questions and shared discussion.
👨👩👧👦 Who Can Join
🧑🤝🧑 Parents and carers of children with disability can join.
🧑🤝🧑 Parents and carers of children with disability can join.
♿ Accessibility
🔊 Please let us know if you need help with access.
📄 Easy-to-read handouts will be shared with all parents.
🔊 Please let us know if you need help with access.
📄 Easy-to-read handouts will be shared with all parents.
👩🏫 Who Are The Presenters?
🎙️ Natalie Hockley is helping lead this session
👩💼 Natalie works at The Growing Space. She leads the learning and communication team.
🧑⚕️ She is also a Nurse.
👩👧👦 Natalie is a mum of two autistic kids. She is also disabled.
📚 She knows a lot about the NDIS and helping people find the right support.
🛠️ Natalie helps make resources that are useful and easy to understand.
💬 She likes using clear, plain language.
🤝 Natalie works with a team of disabled people and carers.
🌟 She believes people with lived experience are the best teachers.
🌍 Natalie wants the world to be more fair and inclusive for everyone.
🧑⚕️ She is also a Nurse.
👩👧👦 Natalie is a mum of two autistic kids. She is also disabled.
📚 She knows a lot about the NDIS and helping people find the right support.
🛠️ Natalie helps make resources that are useful and easy to understand.
💬 She likes using clear, plain language.
🤝 Natalie works with a team of disabled people and carers.
🌟 She believes people with lived experience are the best teachers.
🌍 Natalie wants the world to be more fair and inclusive for everyone.
📚 Want Even More Resources?
- 🖥️ Join our website membership at The Growing Space.
- 👍 Like or Follow our busy Facebook Page.
❓ Questions?
🌏 Acknowledgement of Country
🖼️ The Growing Space respects the Traditional Custodians of Country in Australia.
🌊 We honour their connection to land, sea, and community.
🌟 We pay respect to Elders past, present, and emerging.
🌊 We honour their connection to land, sea, and community.
🌟 We pay respect to Elders past, present, and emerging.
🤝 Acknowledgement of our Community
💪 The Growing Space thanks disability advocates who came before us.
🌈 We support inclusion and belonging for everyone in the community.
👫 We celebrate people of all abilities, genders, sexual orientations, and races.
🎉 We value diversity and what each person brings to our lives.
🌈 We support inclusion and belonging for everyone in the community.
👫 We celebrate people of all abilities, genders, sexual orientations, and races.
🎉 We value diversity and what each person brings to our lives.
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