Living My Life Project
Promoting Supported Decision Making
At Be Well Co, we are proud to be part of the Living My Life project. Led by the South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute (SAHMRI) and in partnership with the Office of the Public Advocate and the Department of Health and Wellbeing, the Living My Life Project aims to promote the use of Supported Decision Making practices across the disability sector.
What is the project about?
The project involves the testing of an enhanced approach to supporting adults under guardianship of the public advocate to make decisions that affect their life whilst having access to hospital service systems in a way that makes reference to their current and future life and health care wishes.
The project aims to support the community and support structures around a person with a disability by providing upskilling, thereby positively impact the disabled person.
Supported Decision Making training
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We set out to support people with disabilities under the guardianship of the Public Advocate who are at greatest risk of not being able to express and realise their life goals and health wishes (including advance care directives), by providing training to improve access and experiences with mainstream and specialist health care services.
Mental Health training -
Be Well Plan
We aim to build capacity and wellbeing of sectors that interface with people with disability (that is, staff of health and disability services, SA Health, carers and OPA staff) by providing access to our Be Well programs and to consider the accessibility of our solutions for people with disability.
At the same time, we are working on a set of recommendations to improve the accessibility of our service (and services like ours) for people with a disability.
Living My Life Videos
Living My Life Videos
Supported Decision-Making - Decision support as a fundamental human right
Supported Decision-Making - The experiences of a decision maker
Supported Decision-Making - Supporting guardianship to become the last resort
Partner Organisations
This project is funded by the national Information Linkages and Capacity Program (Community Grants Hub, on behalf of the Australian Government Department of Human Services)
Wellbeing resources
As part of the Living my Life project, a set of wellbeing video resources were developed, where disabled artists help bringing wellbeing concepts alive. The videos help to build broader representation in wellbeing resources and are produced by Tutti Arts Inc, a multi arts hub that promotes the professional development of learning disabled and neurodivergent artists.
We also created easy-read versions of the evidence-based activities we teach in our Be Well programs. You can download the resource below.