The following resources provide additional information and tools to implement supported decision-making.
Videos about SDM
As part of the Living My Life project, a number of video resources have been developed for organisations and professions to help you better understand supported decision-making.
Watch the supported decision-making video series
Wellbeing resources
As part of the Living My Life project, Be Well Co has worked together with the Office of the Public Advocate, the South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute and SA Health, to develop a set of wellbeing resources where artists with disability help bring wellbeing concepts alive.
- My Life My Choices - Supported Decision-Making Workbook - This Easy Read workbook has tips and activities about supported decision-making. Learn and think about:
- decisions
- what good decision support would look like for you
- who can help you make decisions
- getting information
- your rights
- taking risks
- your goals.
- LaTrobe Support for Decision Making Practice Learning Resource - This free learning resource is about support for decision-making. It presents the first evidence-based framework to guide you through the process of supporting people with cognitive disabilities to make decisions. Using this framework will help you to enable the people you support to exercise choice and control in their own lives.
- Enabling Risk: Putting Positives First - A free online learning resource developed specifically for disability support workers
- Introduction to Supported Decision-Making - This training has been designed as continuous professional development activities for Psychosocial Recovery Coaches, but also suits people working in the mental health and human services sectors, people with lived experience, carers and family.
- My Health Information (for when I go to hospital) - A free resource from SA Health designed to help support people with an intellectual disability when they need to go to hospital. The document, once completed, will help hospital staff to understand important information about the person with intellectual disability and how they can be best supported.
- Supported decision toolkit - OPAN - This online toolkit has been developed by Older Persons Advisory Network (OPAN). It is designed to help older people understand their rights about decisions in their life. This includes decision-making about the supports and services they receive from aged care. Some older people may want and need support to make these decisions. The toolkit covers topics such as:
- Your decision-making rights
- What is supported decision-making?
- Role of aged care services
- Choosing your supporters
- Questions and concern?
- My Support List toolkit
- Equality, Capacity and Disability in Commonwealth Laws (ALRC Report 2014) - this Inquiry examined laws and legal frameworks within the Commonwealth jurisdiction that deny or diminish the equal recognition of people with disability as persons before the law and their ability to exercise legal capacity.
- My Rights Hub - Western Australia’s Individualised Services (WAiS)
- Inclusion Australia: Supported Decision Making Resource Directory
- My Right to Decide - Centre for Intellectual Disability