Our Training Solutions
FPDN delivers culturally embedded training that is focused on delivering capacity building
opportunities and educational resources for First Nations community members living with disabilities, their families, and communities. Training is also provided to upskill stakeholder organisations to help them work with, and alongside First Nations people with disabilities.
Our training solutions build cultural understanding, strengthens community, and puts First Nations people with disability at the centre.
Current Training Programs
Uncle Lester Bostock “Know Your Human Rights” Training
The Uncle Lester Bostock ‘Know Your Human Rights’ Training package provides communities with knowledge of human rights and how to use them when they need to advocate for themselves and others. It is a yarning-based approach to create systemic change within the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities across Australia
Walking Together Training
Walking Together is a free 2-hour training designed for ACCHOs working with mob with disability who want to deepen their disability competency, strengthen disability rights‑based practice, and walk alongside mob with disability and their families in ways that honour culture, rights, and community. ACCHOs are already culturally strong, this training builds on that strength by supporting our workforce to confidently navigate disability, inclusion, and the systems that sit around our people.
Fee for Service Training
Organisations and partners who are committed to culturally safe disability inclusion are also welcome to enquire about fee‑for‑service training. We invite partners who want to learn, listen, and walk alongside community in the right way.
What people are saying:
It was great training! With storytelling being such a huge part of the First People’s culture, I thought it was wonderful how the training rolled out in the same vein – including all the fascinating facts around visual story telling. Loved this training!
Resources
We have a range of films, flashcards, webcasts and other printed materials available to download.
Artwork Story: As a person with disability, you have the right to be treated with respect, live your life on your own terms, and practise your culture. You have the right to be recognised as a traditional custodian, to make decisions about where you live, sign a lease or loan, and receive proper advice to support your choices. Artwork by Uncle Paul Calcott ©
