Powerful Positive Parents

Our Groups are back! ⭐

In 2025 PPP will be running a monthly Friday Friendship Group in Melbourne, a monthly Friday Friendship Group in Moe at the Library and a monthly an Online Group Chat via zoom.

Please see times and dates below, we will also post individual flyers. Keep checking our Facebook page for other updates.

Please note, all of our groups are for people aged 18+

The zoom link for the Online Group Chat will be posted to the Parents Rights Facebook Group.

PPP in the USA

Romeo at the basketball watching the Utah Jazz vs the Milwaukee Bucks

As you might know Positive Powerful Parents won the judges choice award at the Focus on Ability Film Festival in 2024. The prize was 2 return flights to the USA Salt Lake City to attend the Sundance Film Festival where the Compare the Parents short film was to be played…. Unfortunately the film didn’t get played 🙁 BUT Romeo was part of a panel discussion talking about the film and was able to share information about PPP and ways of watching the film. Also while is the USA Romeo went to the basketball and ice hockey! Romeo caught trains through Salt Lake City and was able to see a lot of the area in a short amount of time.

Well done Romeo for representing PPP so well!!

??Exciting News!! ??

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

End of ILC Project Celebration

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.

Book Project

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.

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