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 Exciting news from the Mentoring Program

Aashini Shah is a senior graduating from MIT in May 2022 with a double major in Mechanical and Electrical Engineering. She interned with Global Community Resourcing July-August 2019 and traveled around eastern Australia to placements in Brisbane, ...

Is your workplace disability friendly? Introducing the Inclusive Employment Movement by Chris Beaumont, Endeavour Foundation

Did you know that if you have a disability in Australia, you are more than twice as likely to be unemployed? It’s a pretty shocking statistic, but there’s a movement brewing that’s looking to change this. It’s called the Inclusive Employme...

Why online learning is great for people with intellectual disability by Chris Beaumont, Endeavour Foundation

If there was ever a time to embrace online learning, this is it.At the height of COVID restrictions, we had to temporarily close some of our services and that meant a change in routine for many of our customers, which was difficult. Not wanting yo...

Putting the social in social distancing: 5 ways to keep your social life active during the pandemic by Chris Beaumont, Endeavour Foundation

It’s a weird time right now. Since the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic came in to our lives, social distancing has become a big thing. Many of us are spending more time at home than we ever have before. It’s easy to feel cut off from our hobbi...

Ageing Well and independently in Redlands and specifically on its Island Communities by Anne Livingstone and Georgie Gould

By Anne Livingstone, Director of Research & Projects, and Georgie Gould, Project Coordinator, Global Community Resourcing The Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety has presented the opportunity to reform, to recreate, and improve the q...

Australian Internship Week 5 by Aashini Shah

To commence week 5 of my internship with the Community Care Smart Assistive Technology Collaborative, I flew to Adelaide to learn about the research being undertaken at Flinders University.During my time with Flinders University I had the opportunity...

Australian Internship providing the opporunity to collaborate: Aashini Shah

While I completed my placement at Hear and Say, I was lucky enough to contribute to the launch of Bionics Queensland. When I first started my placement as an intern to Dr Dimity Dornan, founder of Hear & Say and Bionics Queensland, the launch ...

First two weeks Interning in Australia: Technology for the Ageing and Disabled Queensland by Aashini Shah

As you may recall from my last post, I am an Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) student fortunate enough to obtain an internship with Community Care Smart Assistive Technology Collaborative for the past two months. The first colla...

Commencing Australia Assistive Technology Internship by Aashini Shah

From July, I have been undertaking an internship with the Community Care Smart Assistive Technology Collaborative and traveling around Australia to intern with their collaborators. It is unbelievable to think that I am in the Southern Hemisph...

Queensland Multicultural Month: Digital Diversity

Every year for one month the Queensland Government and Access Community Services hosts ‘Queensland Multicultural Month’, an annual festival celebrating the diverse people and cultures that call Queensland home. This year it is held in August. ...