Congratulations to all of the parents who created the Compare the Parents Short Film, we WON the Judges Choice Award for Short Film at the Focus on Ability Film Festival!!

It’s such a powerful film and will now be shared far and wide.

BIG THANK YOU to Romeo and Jess for going up to Sydney to represent PPP.

Shout out to the parents in the film:

Romeo, Melanie, Susan, Lauren, Andrew and Susanne. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Also, thank you to Neon Sheep Films for working with PPP to create this short film. 🎥🎬

Thank you to the Focus on Ability Film Festival for having a space that supports the creativity and passion of people with disability that can also be a platform for raising awareness.

Positive Powerful Parents acknowledges the support of the Victorian Government.

The prize for this category is a return trip for 2 to the USA attending the Sundance Film Festival where the Compare the Parents short film will be played and then being part of a panel discussion as well as film industry mentoring!!! 🤩🤩

We are all beyond thrilled with the opportunity!

Link to the Focus on Ability Film Festival web site and PPP’s shorter version of the Compare the Parents short film.

https://www.focusonability.com.au/FOA/films/3449.html

Photos of the award ceremony below

Friday October 25th

12pm until 2pm – lunch provided

Ross House: level 4, 247 Flinders Lane Melbourne, Vic

Friday October 11th

10am until 12pm

Moe Library: 1/29 George st Moe, Vic

Friday June 28th

12pm until 2pm

Level 4 Ross House, 247 Flinders lane, Melbourne

Positive Powerful Parents and Self Advocacy Groups from around Victoria came together this week and celebrated the achievements each of the group made through the ILC Individual Capacity Building round that finishes up on June 30th 2024.

Groups presented slide shows, gave speeches and shared what being connected to their group meant to them.

Through the ILC Projects Groups created: resources, training and ran training, supported many people to connect with each other in face to face groups and online groups, presented at forums-expos-conferences-organisations, worked through the pandemic, travelled sharing information, held their own expos, made videos-short films documentaries and animations, learnt lots of new skills and had fun!!

Thank you goes to AMIDA (Action for More Impendence and Dignity in Accommodation) and SARU (Self Advocacy Resource Unit) for the support and advice provided to groups during these projects.

Here are a few photos from the celebration.

Positive Powerful Parents have been working with a creative writer to put parents lived experience onto paper in books.

This week we were VERY PROUD to launch the books made by parents!!📚🎉

The books are available to read at our office and will be strategically placed in the community for people to read.

Without support from the Department of Social Services these Self Advocacy Groups are at risk of closure:

• Positive Powerful Parents (PPP)

• Reinforce

• Brain Injury Matters (BIM)

• Power in Culture and Ethnicity (PCE)

• Have a Say Bendigo (HASB)

• Voices for Change (V4C)

• Voice at the Table (VATT)

Click the link to hear from Self Advocates about the importance of funding Self Advocacy Groups: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5dWkIKCrig&t=2s

NOTHING ABOUT US WITHOUT US!!

Self Advocacy Groups are important for people to speak up for their rights.

Without people speaking up for their rights there is a risk of things becoming WITHOUT them again!

📢 FUNDING SELF ADVOCACY MATTERS!!

Positive Powerful Parents along with other Self Advocacy Groups has missed out on ILC Funding.

This means that PPP will not be able to continue with: running training for parents/people with intellectual disability, providing as much support to parents as we would like, we will no longer be running our Online Friday Friendship Groups, our office will be only open 1 day per week (Friday) and we will be very limited in what we can do going forward.

We may take a bit longer to reply to contact made by parents.

Please leave a message on our answering machine and we will get back to you as soon as possible.

If it is an emergency please call 000

We are very sorry for any inconvenience.

PPP is super excited to let you know we have been working on a Book Project.

Parents have been busy working on putting there stories onto paper with the support from Hannah Reekie.

We will let you know when the books are ready and will have some sets of the books to give away.

Here are some photos of parents working on there books.