Relate

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Relate

• Young disabled people speaking up
• about their lives

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Who we are

• Ashley Kershaw
• Kimberely wood
• Trudi McPhail
• Matt Harris
• Theresa Parsons
• Matty Lord
• Tyler Johns

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What we did

• We all live in Kapiti and go to The Barn, an IDEA
  vocational service for young people.
• IDEA is a service division of IHC NZ Inc.
• To do this presentation we met every Wednesday
  afternoon for 7 weeks

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• We talked about how we relate to
• Ourselves
• Our Family
• Our Friends
• Our Community
• Our Country

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Posters

• We talked about rights that all young people with
  disabilities should get but sometimes they dont.
• Posters were made from what we said.
• Here are our posters. We are now going to share
  some of the important messages from our posters.

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MYSELF

• I am a Human being

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Important Messages

• I can make decisions about me
• It is important I get to have my say

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MY FAMILY

• I am a member of a family

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Important Messages

• The right to be a brother and/or sister
• Include me in family things like outings,
  funerals and reunions

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MY FRIENDS

• I am a friend

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Important Messages

• I need support to help with relationships
• The right to have a boyfriend or girlfriend

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MY COMMUNITY

• I am a member of my community

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Important Messages

• The right to a job
• The right to go to school in my community

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MY COUNTRY

• I am a citizen of my country

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Important Messages

• The right to vote
• The right to live where I want to

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Role plays

• Now we would like to show you some role plays
  about things that happen to us and other young
  people with disabilities.

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DISCRIMINATION

• Come in.
• Hello Mr Smith I want to ask you something. I
  have been doing work experience for 3 months. I
  would like a real job.

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DISCRIMINATION

• Sorry, we dont hire disabled people but you
  can stay doing your work experience. Now I have
  to go, I have a meeting.

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DISCRIMINATION

• Hello I want to join your youth group.
• Um, sorry we dont have disabled youth in our
  group.

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ALWAYS TREATED LIKE A CHILD

• Dad I want to go to the pub.
• Dont know, dont think so.
• But Dad all me friends go there.
• I dont think you should be going.
• But Dad I have my 18 card. You should treat me
  like an adult.

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ALWAYS TREATED LIKE A CHILD

• I want to get my money out.
• Do you have an adult with you?
• No.
• Then I cant help you. Next please.

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BEING BULLIED AND TEASED BECAUSE OF HAVING A
DISABILITY
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What we learnt

• We need to speak up
• and
• We need others to speak up with us to make
  sure all young disabled people have the same
  rights as other young people in New Zealand

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• The right to
• do the same things other young people do
• be treated like adults
• have choices
• have support
• be safe
• go to school and have a job
• have easy to read information

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We need you to relate to us and help us make sure
this happens.
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• Thank you for coming to our presentation and
  for listening.