Current Contracts = 14

Asteria Services Inc

DWE has been selected to do a complete review of the Disability Action Plan for Asteria Services.

City of Belmont Western Australia

DWE is helping the City of Belmont by proof reading the initial draft of their Disability Action and Inclusion Plan.

Eventique Event Consulting

DWE has provided Disability Access advice for the upcoming Ballarat Beer festival.

South Gippsland Shire Council

DWE is presenting 2 x 3 hour Disability Awareness Training workshops for staff in May 2012.

City of Whitehorse

DWE is delighted to have been chosen by the City of Whitehorse to write their Disability Policy and Action Plan.

Mornington Peninsula Shire

DWE will intially be meeting with the infrastructure staff at the Shire, then presenting the Scooter Policy to the Executive team and then to Council.

Mornington Peninsula Shire

DWE will be facilitating three 'Wheelies Forums' in Rosebud, Mornington and Hastings.

Shire of Melton

DWE is delivering a 3 hour workshop for Community Groups on 'Creating Accessible Events.'

Shire of Melton

DWE is delivering a 3 hour workshop for staff on 'Creating Accessible Events.'

City of Casey

DWE has been chosen to draft the Disability/ Multi -Cultural Action Plan for the City of Casey.

City of Whittlesea

DWE has now been chosen to provide another 4 x Disability Awareness Training sessions for staff at the City of Whittlesea from July 2011 to June 2012.

Mornington Peninsula Shire

Following on from DWE developing the very first Scooter Policy for the Mornington Peninsula Shire, Deb has now been asked to draft a Scooter Safety Booklet for the Shire.

Mornington Peninsula Shire

DWE has been appointed to write a Scooter Policy for the Shire. This Policy will be the framework that implements the introduction of a scooter recharge scheme, publication of mobility maps and a scooter safety manual. Internally this Policy will give direction to infrastructure planning in relation to safe footpath networks. DWE believes this is the first Scooter Policy of its kind to be written in Victoria.

City of Ballarat  

DWE is very proud to be contracted by the City Of Ballarat as their DDA Consultant from the design phase, construction and completion of 'The Australian Centre for Democracy @ Eureka.'

Completed Contracts (in the last 12 months)

Monash City Council

DWE has delivered 2 x 3 hour Disability Awareness Training sessions for staff in September and November.

Swan Hill Rural City Council  

DWE has written the Disability Action Plans for the Swan Hill Rural City Council, the Buloke Shire Council and the Gannawarra Shire Council.

Shire of Campaspe

DWE presented a 2 hour Disability Awareness Training session for Customer Service staff in November.

City of Whittlesea

DWE delivered a 2 hour workshop in early November for PRACC staff and hallkeepers on Creating Accessible Events.

Cardinia Shire Council

DWE has delivered Disability Awareness Training for staff at Cardinia Shire Council during 2011.

Monash City Council

DWE is proud to have facilitated the Monash City Councils Disability Forum for the 3rd consecutive year on October 25th.

Frankston City Council

DWE delivered a 3 hour workshop for Community Groups on 'Creating Accessible Events.'

Disability Sport and Recreation

DWE has delivered 2 x 2 hour Disability Awareness Training sessions for staff in September.

Wyndham City Council

DWE has created an easy to use 'Tradies Guide'  that highlights the existing and new building standards for renovations undertaken by local businesses, especially for the Werribee CBD revamp. The information includes 'best practice' advice for internal furnishings, fixtures and fittings such as seating, kitchens, customer counters and other common areas.

City of Dandenong

DWE presented 2 x 2 hour Disability Awareness Training sessions for customer service staff in early August.

Shire of Melton

DWE has developed an 'Accessible Events Guide' for internal use by Council.

Shire of Melton

DWE has developed an 'Accessible Events Guide' for Community Groups.

Frankston City Council

DWE is developing an 'Accessible Events Guide' for internal use by Council.

Frankston City Council

DWE has created an 'Accessible Events Guide' for external use by community groups.

Frankston City Council

DWE has developed an 'Accessible Events Guide' for internal use by Council.

Swan Hill Rural City Council

DWE delivered 4 ASM training sessions for HACC workers in Swan Hill in June and July.

City of Whittlesea

DWE presented a 1.5 hr workshop in June for PAG and Home Support Workers on conducting Accessible Events.

City of Whittlesea

Following the success of the Accessible Events and Programs Guide (Council document) DWE has now tailored the contents into a community version for community groups and clubs.

Frankston City Council

DWE delivered a 3 hour workshop in June for staff on 'Creating Accessible Events.'

Wyndham City Council 

DWE has helped the Early Childhood section of Wyndham City Council to develop a new PSFO (Pre-School Field Officer) service co-ordination Framework and Guidelines. This is the first Policy of its kind to be written in Victoria.

Hepburn Shire Council

DWE has delivered 2 additional ASM training sessions at Creswick for the Hepburn Shire.

Ballarat District Nursing and Healthcare Inc

DWE has been selected to deliver the new 'Active Service Model' training to HACC workers in the Grampians region consisting of 11 local government areas comprising Central Highlands, Grampians-Pyrenees and Wimmera. This training was delivered by June 2011.

City of Whittlesea 

DWE is proud to announce that we have been contracted by the City of Whittlesea to undertake a series of regular Disability Awareness Training workshops for Council staff up to June 2011. DWE enjoys the ongoing working relationship with Whittlesea.

City of Whittlesea

DWE delivered an additional 3 hour workshop in June for Managers to elaborate on the Accessible Events Guide.

Liftshop

DWE inspected their building in Port Melbourne for Access and submitted a compliance letter.

Yarra Building Works Pty Ltd

DWE delivered an Access Appraisal and report for their Commercial building in Abbotsford.

East Gippsland Network of Neighbourhood Houses

DWE delivered a 5hr workshop in June on 'How to write your own Disability Action Plan' for the East Gippsland Network of Neighbourhood Houses.

City of Casey

DWE has helped the Neighbourhood Houses located in the City of Casey by facilitating two 5 hour workshops on 'How to write your own Disability Action Plan.'

Maribyrnong City Council  

DWE has been recruited to deliver Disability Awareness Training for staff at the Maribyrnong City Council for 2010 - 2011.

Disability Advocacy and Information Services (Wodonga)

DWE provided Governance Training to the Committee of Management in June 2011.

Knox City Council

DWE delivered a 5hr workshop in June on 'How to write your own Disability Action Plan' for the Knox City Council's Neighbourhood Houses.

South Gippsland Shire Council

DWE delivered 2 x 3 hour Disability Awareness Training sessions for staff at Leongatha on May 31st.

City of Whittlesea

DWE has delivered two 3 hour workshops for Managers to elaborate on the Accessible Events Guide.

Mornington Peninsula Shire

DWE has facilitated  a Community Forum in May at Rosebud for the Shire to explain the Scooter  Policy.

Horsham Sports and Community Club

DWE has completed a Strategic Planning process for the Horsham Sports and Community Club to help  gauge member’s perceptions, understandings and purpose of the Club and to investigate their views about future development, growth and improvements to current services.

Disability Advocacy and Information Services (Wodonga)

Further to her existing work with the Disability Advocacy and Information Service in Wodonga, DWE has now wriiten their Strategic Plan.

 

 

Staff member Julie with Martin Butcher (DAIS Manager) at the Strategic Planning day in Wodonga on Feb 16.

Asteria Services Inc.

DWE presented a Writing for the Print Impaired and Simple English workshop for staff at Asteria Services In Maryborough in March.

Monash City Council

DWE  delivered a 3 hour Disability Awareness Training session in March for staff at the Monash City Council.

People @ Work

DWE helped  People @ Work, Recruitment consultants based in Ballarat and Geelong, with a Team Building session for their staff planning day in March.

Liftshop

DWE conducted an Access Audit for Liftshop at Ballarat Grammar school.

South West Healthcare  

DWE has developed a Diversity and Inclusion Plan for South West Healthcare, Warrnambool, combining the legislative requirements of the Disability Act and the needs of the Cultural Diversity Plan into the one strategy.

Maryborough District Health Service  

DWE is delighted to continue supporting Health Services to develop Disability Action Plans and has just completed the Maryborough District Health Services very first Disability Action Plan.

Horsham Sports and Community Club

DWE assisted Horsham Sports and Community Club to develop a Customer Service Charter.

Mount Alexander Shire Council

DWE presented a 4 hour workshop on 'How to write your own Disability Action Plan.'

Brace Education Training and Employment Limited  

DWE delivered Multi Cultural Awareness Training for Brace in both Ballarat and Horsham.

Wyndham City Council

DWE reviewed the Werribee Draft 'Activity Centre Zone' document and identified opportunities for access requirements to be included to enhance access.

City of Whittlesea 

DWE designed and published their Disability Action Plan.

City of Whittlesea

DWE created an Accessible Events Guide for the City of Whittlesea.
"It was great to work with Deb And Greg on the Accessible Events Guide. We have received a lot of great feedback on the project. We look forward to working together again in the future."

Archived Contracts

Monash City Council

DWE presented a 3 hour Disability Awareness Training session for Monash City Council on November 30th.

 

Monash City Council

DWE facilitated the Monash City Council Disability Forum on the 1st December.

 

Hume City Council 

DWE developed a Disability and Community Services Directory for Hume and surrounding local Government areas.

Central Highlands Primary Care Partnership 

DWE drafted a new Partnership Agreement in line with the new Governance requirements as articulated by the Department of Health.

Network of Inner East Community Houses  

DWE delivered Disability Awareness Training workshops for the Manningham City Council in May and the City of Whitehorse in August.

Melbourne Citymission  

DWE facilitated 5 Regional Planning Framework working group meetings.

Wimmera Health Care Group

DWE developed and wrote the very first Disability Action Plan for the Horsham hospital.

Shire of Campaspe  

DWE rewrote and developed the Action and Inclusion Plan for the Shire of Campaspe.

"From start to finish in the Development of our Access and Inclusion Plan, Deb was extremely professional in her approach. Obviously with the vast background in this field that Deb has we knew we had chosen our consultant perfectly. Deb challenged us to put everything into the development of the Plan and guided us through the process. End result, we have a fantastic result and we cannot thank Deb Whitecross Enterprises enough for challenging us to “raise the bar” in relation to this important legislative requirement.

 

Thank you Deb and Greg you were a pleasure to work with."

 

Andrew Thomson RuralAccess Worker Shire of Campaspe

East Grampians Health Services Ararat 

DWE completed the very first Access for All Strategy for the Ararat hospital.

Pyrenees Shire

DWE developed their very first Access and Inclusion Plan.

City of Ballarat LEAP Program - Arts and Disability Audit  

DWE created a database of all Disability Arts activities, programs and initiatives in the Central Highlands Region.

Ballarat District Nursing and Healthcare Inc

DWE presented 2 Effective Communication Workshops as part of the HACC training program in Horsham and Ballarat in March.

Testimonial

"Deb was wonderful.I feel I have gained such an important skill today.I thought she was great, warm, open, friendly and personable."

 

Workshop participant

Central Hume RuralAccess

DWE facilitated and conducted a 'How to write your own Disability Action Plan' workshop in Benalla in March for a variety of small agencies who needed some ‘hands on’, practical help to confidently get the process underway.

 

Greater Shepparton City Council  

DWE redrafted their Universal Access Plan.

Mill Park Leisure Centre 

DWE delivered Disability Awareness Training for the Mill Park Leisure Centre staff members.

Testimonial

"Deb Whitecross was absolutely fantastic. The presentation was bright and colorful, easy to understand and the examples provided were most relevant to the topic. She was open, honest, fun and very approachable with a very positive attitude."

Workshop participant

Ballarat District Nursing and Healthcare Inc

          Biography

Who is Deb Whitecross?

Deb Whitecross’ passion and innovation demonstrated in her role as the RuralAccess coordinator at Ballarat Council during its pilot phase in 2000, saw her team create huge change for people with a disability within the community. This proved to be the successful catalyst for the State Government to continue this work by funding similar positions in Melbourne and across rural Victoria.

Deb began her career in disability services after successfully returning to tertiary education as a mature age student to study a degree in Social Welfare and Business Management at the University of Ballarat and more recently Cert 4 Training and Education.

Her experience spans across many aspects of community development, from remedying systemic issues in the broader community that create negative attitudes towards people with a disability to case management support for families with children with a disability.

Deb’s ground breaking methodology of the ‘Traffic light model of Review’ has meant that she is regularly invited by the Office for Disability and the Municipal Association of Victoria to speak alongside expert panelists. These included: Rhonda Galbally AO, CEO of ‘Our Community’, Graeme Innes, Chief Commissioner of Australian Human Rights Commission and Michael Small also from AHRC who specialises in policy development.

Deb has also developed disability specific resources including her publication “communication with people with a disability” which is now a statewide essential piece of reading for everyone that assists in changing community attitudes towards people with a disability. Deb has also created the very first ‘disability access directory’ that is housed with local government.

Deb has extended her strategic abilities and created Deb Whitecross Enterprises, a disability consultancy that will take the complication out of developing and reviewing ‘disability action plans’. She is able to implement any disability specific projects with integrity and professionalism.