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Enabling Good Lives Summary

In 2008 New Zealand ratified the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) and there was a review into how things were going in New Zealand. The convention talked about what things should be like and the review made it very clear that lots of change needed to...

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NEGL guidance to leaders working for positive change at this challenging time

This misrepresents the rationale for why there are three “EGL sites”. The concept of having three sites was not to exclude anyone. The purpose of having the governments response to EGL contained in three sites was so that these sites became the place where disabled people and their families could...

Flexible Funding for Disability Support

Impairment and disability tend to get treated as the same thing even though the UNCRPD and New Zealand/ Aotearoa have defined them as different. To briefly recap: “impairment” relates to physical/anatomical characteristics of an individual that perform below the expected norm and which may create a limitation in functioning.

Summary of the Disabled people, tāngata whaikaha Māori and whānau as kaitūhono/connectors and leaders guide

This guide provides information about four areas. These are:

Enabling Good Lives (EGL) and me

The Enabling Good Lives (EGL) was developed in 2012/2013 by disabled leaders and their allies. EGL is about bringing about personal, family, systems and social change. There are many ways EGL can be used. One way EGL can be used is for individuals and families to have a framework to...

Enabling Good Lives (EGL) is Universal and Enduring

A significant asset is that much of the work has been done and has recently been endorsed by the Abuse in Care report: ‘Whanaketia – Through pain and trauma, from darkness to light[1]’.