Diversity and Disability Alliance
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  • 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
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DDA's Current Projects

Connecting Peers Cross Culturally- (DDA Logo)
Start: February 2020 Finish: February 2023,

This project will train new peers to deliver peer support in existing communities, through peer-led community events and hosting workshops.
  • Continue to support existing peer leaders and train new peers to take on peer leadership roles
  • Conduct 30 peer-led events
  • Connect with and support 5 new communities to set up peer support structure
  • Run 4 peer-led events per year
  • Organisational capacity building

NSW Peer Learning Hub - (DDA logo and CDAH logo)
Start: February 2020 Finish: July 2023
This project promotes peer support, develops resources and builds the peer movement across NSW.

  • Run 10 events across NSW (DDA will focus on CDAH communities) promoting peer support around a range of topics
  • Deliver 10 'Introduction to Peer Support' training in the same communities
  • Provide follow up support as they establish new peer groups
  • Hold 2 events annually for peer coordinators to share their experiences and learning, and have online community of practice
  • Organise and hold a NSW Peers Support Confernce, by peers for peers.

Powerful Peers - (DDA logo and CDAH logo)
Start: October 2020 Finish: July 2022


This project develops peer mentoring relationships across the Hunter and metropolitan Sydney, particularly for those that are isolated and from CALD communities
  • Review and update all peer mentoring and facilitator training resources
  • Deliver a total of 24 peer mentor training session across metropolitan Sydney and Hunter Region
  • Have 32 peers complete Peer Mentor Facilitator training
  • Engage 100 people in Peer Mentoring training
  • Develop 60 peer mentoring relationships
  • Develop and Promote peer mentor profiles

Circles Widen - (DDA logo)
Start: Oct 2020 Finish: Dec 2021


Circles Widen will aim to work with peers with disability, to bring the Circles of Support model to the culturally and linguistically diverse community.



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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.
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