I never used to be able to get out there as much as I do now and he's helped me with
finding a different job and that type of thing.
I gained more confidence in my life now by Robyn helping me do those type of things and
I feel inter-reach is a great place for people with special needs.
Inter-reach is a community based organisation delivering services across the Riverina Murray
to support people with disability to live the life they want as equal and valued members
of their local community.
They might want to be linked more into their community, they might want to find out more
information about what is available in their community, they might want to build up their
independence and skills so that they are able to access their community more independently.
Inter-reach's human rights based approach is about empowering people with a disability
to know and claim their rights and to provide greater opportunities for participation in
decision making that affects their rights.
To be included I think is the biggest thing in ability links the right to feel a part
of the community, the right to get the support that they need.
Inter-reach takes a person-centred approach to working alongside people with disability.
The person with a disability is at the centre of a process where inter-reach listens to
what the person wants and then helps them to live in their communities as they choose.
So that means the people that we work with are at the centre of the work that we do.
We don't tell people what to do, we don't tell them what's best for them.
People that we work with tell us what they need and what they would like when we walk
beside them to achieve that.
So we work with people's abilities, not their disabilities, we focus on what they're able
to do.
How they've been resilient and achieved things in the past and moving them forward with that
knowledge that they do have the strength and resilience to move forward and they have
other resources within themselves and with our support they'll be able to achieve the
things that they need to achieve.
Inter-reach helps build strong supported communities.
I wouldn't really be interacting if I didn't come to this place, I guess.
It's a social outlet for me and I enjoy coming and the people here are all good people.
It's a good day out.
We go to the salvos after that and spend a bit of money after here.
The staff there can help you if you have any problems or just need to have a talk to them.
I think they're great staff there and great people to talk to and I feel like I've got
the help that I've needed to get and I've really appreciated that.
So that's how I feel that Inter-reach helped me.
Leslie with assistance from Inter-reach is developing greater independence through the
use of a mobility scooter.
And I can go anywhere where I want to go but I can't go too far because I don't want to
go down and have to push all the way home.
