Helen Connolly
Senior Director
ACT Disability Aged and Carer Advocacy Service
Helen is an experienced health professional, educator and advocate with a passion for ensuring that human services and social policy meets the needs of our diverse communities and is informed by the realities of day to day lives. She has a particular interest in supported decision making and safeguarding and the impact on networks and relationships of balancing these. She is curious and optimistic and learns daily from her own experiences and those with whom she has been privileged to work over many years.
SESSIONS
Day 1
1:55
Panel: Balancing choice and accountability in the Support at Home Program
How can providers ensure that participants have meaningful choice while maintaining accountability and regulatory compliance?
Address the challenges of ensuring participants' right to choose how, when, and by whom services are delivered
Better understand how co-contributions influence what older people and their families or decision supporters deem most important and critical potential impacts
Moderator: Meredith Coote, Co-Chair, Department of Social Services, National Carer Strategy Advisory Committee
Geoff Rowe, Chief Executive Officer, Aged & Disability Advocacy Australia
Debra Burden, Chief Executive Officer, Selectability
Johanna Heaven, Associate, Russell Kennedy Lawyers
Helen Connolly, Senior Director, ACT Disability Aged and Carer Advocacy Service
Lexie Dennis, General Manager, Hazel Home Care