Diversity and Disability Alliance
  • Welcome
  • About Us
    • Meet the Board
    • Meet the Peer Facilitators
    • Meet the Staff
  • What's On?
    • Connecting Peers Cross Culturally
    • Powerful Peers
    • NSW Peer Learning Hub
    • Circles Widen
    • Evaluation
  • Peer Resources
    • How to use Zoom
    • Talkin' Together >
      • Talking Together - Arabic
      • Talking Together - Auslan
      • Talking Together - Cantonese
      • Talking Together - Korean
      • Talking Together - Khmer
      • Talking Together -Mandarin
      • Talking Together - Vietnamese
    • Setting up & running a Peer Support Group >
      • Part 1 Setting up a Peer support group
      • Part 2 The First Meeting
      • Part 3 Keeping the Group going
      • Part 4 Ending the Peer Support Group
    • About Peer Support - 8 Videos in English
    • About Peer Support- 8 Videos in 6 languages >
      • Arabic- عربى
      • Cantonese
      • Khmer
      • Korean
      • Mandarin
      • Vietnamese
  • Find a Peer Mentor
  • SPEAKING UP
  • Contact
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Peer Cafes
Every month DDA organises peer cafes - bringing people together to talk, connect and learn from each other.  
Since April 2017 we've run 11 peer cafes with over 300 people from 20 different language groups across Sydney taking part.

Support Groups
The first group has been running now for 3 months. Over 45 people have attended. There are new groups popping up everywhere across Sydney and in different CALD communities. 
Ryde, Hurstville, Korean, Penrith, Arabic, .....

Peer Support training
136 people have graduated from our peer support training programs. 
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Peer Mentoring
7 trained peer mentors are working in their communities. There is so much for them to do. Check them out here

You can help us to keep it going...
Chip in a lot or a little.. whatever you can is great!!

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$10K - Support For all

Each Peer Cafe, each group, new and old needs $10K each per year to thrive. Your support can keep that going for a year. 
With groups across different CALD communities all over Sydney - the funds can go straight towards helping with venues, catering, language interpreters & support. 
To contribute.. email us
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$12K - Training & Support

This means peer support training for up to 10 new peer leaders.  
Different training programs are already developed. So the funds go towards venues, catering, language interpreters, support and paying the peer trainers.
To contribute.. email us
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CALD Peer Future Fund

It is exciting that there is so much
potential with our work.
We want to make sure we've got a bit of backing (phones/office space / computers/wages for supports)
so we can get on and do the work that
the community wants done.
Why don't you chip in now?
To contribute.. email us
AND... 
Spread the work use your influence, ask someone you know to support us..
Download the "DDA - All the way" flyer and share it with your networks and the people you know.
"When I joined the peer support group, I have good self esteem, I can make decisions, and I can trust myself. 
Also, I have made one big decision to self manage and I learnt this from attending one of the sessions. It has made a big change, I am in control.”
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Diversity and Disability Alliance (DDA) is a peer led organisation, by people from culturally and linguistically diverse communites with disability for people from culturally and linguistically diverse communities with disability.
Get involved..!
We also welcome family members and allies who support us in our leadership of DDA and in achieving our goals.