Three full time and two part-time jobs will be created to provide help for Aboriginal people with a disability.
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The Orange Local Aboriginal Land Council has received a government grant of $158,000 to deliver services under the National Disability Insurance Scheme.
Land Council CEO Annette Steele said the staff would co-ordinate support over the next 18 months.
She said staff would work out which rehabilitation and welfare services were best for the community members.
People are reluctant to access the options on their own.
- Annette Steele, CEO Orange Local Aboriginal Land Council
“We’re looking at, in the next 12 months increasing to [helping] 40 people,” she said.
“People are reluctant to access the options on their own.”
She said the funding would enable them to employ “culturally appropriate staff” to deliver the services.
“They will work with families, whether they are on the NDIS already, or new entrants coming in under the package to get the best service they can get,” she said.
“We will provide them with all the information from all of our services who deliver NDIS and give them the information so they can make an informed choice, because it’s their choice, their voice.”
Parliamentary secretary for Western NSW Rick Colless said it was an important cultural move.
“Culturally Aboriginal people sometimes feel uncomfortable with the wider population giving them advice and telling them what they should be doing,” he said.
“From a cultural perspective it is much easier for those people to talk to and listen to their own people who are properly trained and can give them right advice and the right help they need.”
Orange mayor Reg Kidd it was a catalyst to get people with disabilities involved with business.
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