Monday, November 11, 2024

1:45 PM - 3:50 PM

Studio Room (Ground Floor)

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1:30pm – 1:50pm Social connection, young adulthood and illness This session will focus on how to maintain connection, friendships and social roles while also managing disability and or chronic illness. 2:00pm – 2:50pm Entrepreneurship as an AYA A panel discussion that includes people with disability or chronic illness who have successfully created a business for themselves. This will include those who have harnessed their disability as part of their business and those who manage their disability/illness separate to their ventures. It is important during this session to highlight businesses of different scales. There is a desire for this session to include practical tips about what establishing a business involves. 3:00pm – 3:50pm How to sustainably contribute to healthcare A panel discussion that includes people who have successfully continued in their advocacy roles after they have transitioned out of the AYA space. This panel can include those who have gone on to be adult health consumer advocates as well as those who have incorporated their experience into their careers. This may also present an opportunity to highlight some of the ‘cadets’ who are First Nations students training to be social workers or nurses, who have used their lived experience, cultural understanding and on the job training to improve their career skills. 4:00pm Invitation for consumers to stay and healthcare professionals to join the space to seek feedback from young people about ideas, projects, etc. - This will serve as a networking opportunity for AYAs and healthcare professionals to exchange ideas and potentially opportunities. - Young people are invited to continue to socialise with new peers at the end of the forum in South Bank.

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