Evaluation of the Community Abundance Workshops
This project evaluates the impact and effectiveness of the Community Abundance Workshops - which strive to help the Sudanese Australian community understand the NDIS.
Community Abundance received an Information, Linkages and Capacity Building (ILC) grant from the National Disability Insurance Agency, for a series of capacity building workshops which take a whole-of -community approach to helping the Sudanese Australian community understand the NDIS, educate them about disability, empower them to advocate for themselves and understand their rights in Australia.
This project evaluates the impact and effectiveness of the workshops.
Research Outcomes:
The workshop program has made a valuable contribution to de-mystifying the NDIS and all service providers worked hard on the days to deliver their messages and have been successful in sharing information and assuring participants worries about it being a disciplinary system (this comment came up about three times during the focus groups).
There are a number of recommendations which can be made in terms of future delivery of such workshops.
Research Team
Anthea Rutter, Lead Evaluator, Centre for Program Evaluation