Annie in wonderland

Protecting Support Workers and Clients: A Balanced Approach In the world of support work, safeguarding the well-being of both support workers and clients is essential. Abuse can happen on either side, and it’s crucial to have strategies in place to ensure a safe, respectful, and supportive environment. This post outlines key steps that both support workers and clients can take to protect themselves and one another, with a focus on documentation, education, relationship-building, and financial protection.  Protecting Support Workers from Abuse Support work can be emotionally and physically demanding. While most relationships between clients and workers are positive, there are times when boundaries can be crossed. Support workers need to protect themselves from potential abuse by following these guidelines: 1. **Document Everything** Documentation is one of the most powerful tools to protect yourself from false allegations or disputes. - **Daily notes**: Write detailed reports at the...

 When I saw this clip, I was like this must be a setup but know it was a real reaction and I know that I am hypersensitive at times as well, and entitled, but to say that people who use wheelchairs aren’t paralyzed is just plain wrong and uneducated about disability. Both Strollers and Wheelchairs are mobility aids, and they are a tool. We see in the Clip that the person is suffering from a valid health condition known as obesity, but I am fairly sure that she would be a part of the body positivity movement, this body positivity denies one fact, that  health isn’t health at any size, you can be thin and very unhealthy as I was for many years, but to be obese we need to point out some difficult and challenging facts that there is a higher risk of, Heart disease Stroke Sleep apnoea High blood pressure Depression These are just a few and it’s not healthy to be obese at all, a little overweight in case you get sick I got told by my own health professional that it’s a...

 So after the findings of the disability royal commission, we see that people are discovering what it means to be disabled in Australia and what the words we are throwing around mean and I discovered in cleaning up my blog and hard drive that I had this video on ablism, and it’s different for every person when they discover that they are disabled or start to identity with that labeled more and more as I realize that I have a TBI and have accepted it but I have only in the past  4 to 5 years accepted that a TBI is a disable and affects my life and the lives of the people around me as well. But what is ableism, it’s basically when people dismiss or invalidate a disability in assuming that most people can do things for themselves, and most people with a disability might have workarounds but some might need a lot of support to do very basic tasks. It heard much more about accessibility, so having places that are accessible is much more than a ramp to get in it’s  ooking at ...