Event: Progress made and remaining challenges for students with disability

    Event: Progress made and remaining challenges for students with disability

    Children and Young People with Disability Australia are delighted to be supporting Gi Brown to be part of the "Progress Made and Remaining Challenges for Students with Disability" event run by Monash University. 

    About Gi Brown

    Gi Brown (they/him) is a proud trans, queer, and disabled person who believes in being a keen disruptor to the system. They currently live and study on unceded Wurundjeri Woi wurrung and Wathaurong land. He lives and breathes social advocacy and justice for everyone with a specific interest in disability, LGBTQIA+ youth and mental health through the lens of policy, education and awareness, and his own lived experience. They are also a current board member for Encompass Community Services and involved with Children and Young People with Disability Australia (CYDA). Gi’s recent and extensive advocacy experience includes:

    • graduating from CYDA’s National Youth Disability Leadership Program
    • giving evidence in June 2022 to the Disability Royal Commission on his and his sibling’s experience of segregated and ‘mainstream’ settings
    • sharing their experience of the lack of support to transition from school into post-school options
    • presenting in forums and workshops including as part of Families Australia’s 2021 event to enhance our understanding of the rights, safeguarding risks and gaps for children and young people with disability in national public policy settings
    • with CYDA’s CEO giving evidence at the 2021 Joint Standing Committee on the NDIS Inquiry into Independent Assessments, and
    • meeting with the NDIS Minister during 2021 to share their concerns about the NDIS changes.

    More information on the progress of ensuring an inclusive education

     

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