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As the year draws to a close, I would like to thank everyone for your tremendous work over the past 12 months. Despite the challenges posed by the Covid pandemic, much has been achieved. People with lived experience have become involved with all of our projects and new advisory groups formed, papers have been written, podcasts produced, an enormously successful symposium conducted and new PhD students recruited. None of this would have been possible without the commitment of all those involved with CP-Achieve – consumers, investigators, research associates and students, and our wonderful CP-Achieve Coordinator (Kari), Consumer Co-ordinator (Joan) and Project Officer (Sevastine).
We are particularly delighted that Joan received the Research Associate Award for Excellence from the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute – a testimony to her commitment, hard work and great skills. Congratulations Joan.
I hope that you will all have a joyous festive season, and a happy holiday. I look forward to our ongoing work in 2022.
Dinah Reddihough, CP-Achieve Principal Investigator
Congratulations to Joan Gains, for her Research Associates Award for Excellence from Murdoch Children's Research Institute!
It was fantastic to see Joan represented for her tireless contribution to CP-Achieve. This award reflects the tremendous hard work, determination and dedication of Joan as the CP-Achieve Community Coordinator. The CP-Achieve team is proud of the tremendous effort Joan has put in our first two years since inception, providing expert support and input to the CP-Achieve research team. She is also a leader and mentor to other staff, and those associated with CP-Achieve.
Meet Reece Adams, CP-Achieve Research Associate!
Reece Adams is the current Head of the Centre for Developmental Disability Health, Monash Health. Reece has worked in the field of developmental disabilities for the past 17 years in various capacities. Originally trained as an Occupational Therapist, Reece continued his career into Research with the Centre for Developmental Disability Health prior to becoming the Head of the Centre in 2019.
We are Hiring for our CP-Achieve Research Coordinator!
Don't miss out on this exciting opportunity to work closely with our entire team!
The role of the Coordinator is to assist in the planning, organisation and implementation of the many activities of CP-Achieve which involves both consumers and investigators. The Research Coordinator supports the team to deliver projects and training in a timely fashion, to be a contact point for CP-Achieve and to assist in the administrative and financial duties of CP-Achieve.
This exciting role will be fundamental to the success of CP-Achieve and allow the candidate to work with an amazing multidisciplinary, vibrant, passionate and active international team!
This role is Part Time (19 hours per week) and applications close December 20th 2021! Interested? apply online at https://www.mcri.edu.au/careers or email cp-achieve@mcri.edu.au for more info.
CP-Achieve Webinar Series: Join us on January 31st at 5pm!
In this 30-minute webinar, Stephanie will be speaking about Implementation Research, looking at getting what we know we should be doing into practice! Stephanie is a qualitative and mixed methods health services researcher currently embedded with Australian Genomics at the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute in Melbourne. At MCRI she is working with clinicians, service leads and community advocates leading research into the implementation of genomics in clinical practice.
CP-Achieve Webinar Series: Join us on February 14th at 5pm!
In this 30-minute webinar, Isabelle Stevenson and Georgia Gardner will be discussing the Carer Gateway program across Victoria. In their roles as Service Development and Promotion Officers at Merri Health, they promote the Carer Gateway, coordinate engagement activities across local service providers and manage projects which aim to engage unpaid family, friend or partner carers in Victoria. Largely, Isabelle focuses on regional and rural Victoria and Georgia focuses on Metropolitan Melbourne.
2022 Photo Exhibition Submission Now Open!
The AusACPDM and CP-Achieve are excited to announce the launch of our second Lived Experience Photo Exhibition.
We’re seeking people of all ages with lived experience of childhood-onset disability to help celebrate our diverse community by submitting quality, original photographs within the themes of Family, Fun, Fitness or Friends.
Photos that meet the exhibition guidelines will be showcased on our website where the community will be able to cast a vote for their favourite.
One photo in each category will be selected as a winner, and the entrant will be awarded a prize of $100AUD.
Submitted images may be used to complement future online and published work by the AusACPDM and CP-Achieve.
To submit your photos click the button below.
During the online submission process, entrants will be asked to agree to the exhibition terms and conditions. There is a maximum of three entries per person.
Entries close midnight 11.59pm 21 December 2021. The exhibition and voting will open on 31 January 2022 with winners to be announced on 4 March 2022.
MACA: The home of safe child transport
Mobility and Accessibility for Children in Australia Ltd (MACA) is a not-for-profit registered charity dedicated to advancing the rights of children with disabilities and medical conditions to safe and accessible transport.
We have filmed a couple of our team members, click on the videos below to hear them speak!
Meet Carlee Holmes: CP-Achieve Research Associate
Meet Utsana Tonmukayakul: CP-Achieve Research Associate
See more below!
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