Creating opportunities for our students with special needs, and changing the way people see disabilities.
Month of August 2024
Movement for Change Day:
Friday, 30th August 2024
Did you Know?
Every two hours, an Australian child will be diagnosed with an intellectual disability.
An estimated 1 in 10 school students in Australia have a disability, and almost 1 in 18 have a severe or profound disability.
Almost 1 in 10 Australians with a disability have experienced discrimination or unfair treatment because of their disability.
Four out of every 5 children with disability attending school (aged 5-14 years) have faced an educational restriction.
Of all children with disability aged 5-17 years, only 57% had been involved in sport in the past 12 months.
The unemployment rate is 4.6% for people without a disability, but 10.3% for people with a disability and 34.1% for people with autism spectrum disorders.
Workforce participation for people with disability is 53.4%, compared to 84.1% of people the same age without.
Nearly half (45.2%) of all employed people with disability reported that they had experienced unfair treatment or discrimination from their employer due to their disability in the past 12 months.
Taking part in Movement for Change will not only get you moving, it will help fund work education, life skills and important classroom programs, giving our students more opportunities. More importantly, it will get more people talking so we can change the way people see disabilities and kick these kinds of statistics to the curb.
How to Join the Movement
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Sign Up.
Register as an individual, or register your organisation, school, team or group online at the ‘sign up’ button.
Share your page to let people know you're taking part. You could share in your newsletter, put up a poster in the work break room, send an email to staff, or share on your social (don’t forget to tag #gabesmovementforchange)
Inviting friends to do it with you, keeps you accountable and makes it more fun!
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Set a Date.
Set a date for your school, organisation or workplace to take part in Movement for Change.
You could do a weekly fitness class for the month, a set km walk together one lunchtime or afternoon, or even a Friday afternoon dance off!
Alternatively, encourage people to do set amount of hours/kms in their own time - whatever works for you.
The official Movement for Change day is Thursday the 31st August -that’s when we’ll be doing our walk - but you can do it any time between now the end of August.
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Get Moving. Make Some Change.
Share your fundraiser page and ask people to spare some change for what you're doing.
Get moving! Walk, run, ride, roll, dance. Get active and have fun. Don't forget to tell people why what you're doing is important.
If you want to show us your moves, your can tag us on social and use the hashtag #gabesmovementforchange
Help Us Help Them
As a school for children with special needs, our core focus is enriching the lives of our students, and enabling them the same opportunities afforded everyone their age, in school and in the community. From K-12, our programs cover social skills, life skills, financial literacy and vocational education and training.
We want to make a difference in the lives of our students and we know to do that we also need to make a difference in the world they live in.
