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How we work as a team

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This page is about

  • how we work at My Health Choices My Way
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How we work is about

  • the ways we do things to reach our goals
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We are person-centred

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The experiences of people with intellectual disability

  • guide our research
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We work to each other’s

  • strengths and preferences
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What works best for each of us

  • can be different

That is great!

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Our work spaces are

  • welcoming
  • safe
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Everyone is welcome to talk about their

  • experiences
  • ideas
  • opinions

in a positive way

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We use people first language

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We say

  • a person with intellectual disability
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We do not say

  • impaired
  • disabled
1 woman and 3 men with the words Intellectual disability

We say

  • intellectual disability

and

  • people with intellectual disability
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Abbreviations are short forms of

  • phrases
  • words
A man in a wheelchair holding a cross mark

We do not use abbreviations for disability such as

  • PWID
  • ID
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We show respect and understanding

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Each of our

  • experiences
  • communities
  • ways of thinking

help us to think differently

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We show each other

  • it is good to be different
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We work to each other’s strengths

We help each other to improve

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We do not focus on the things

  • that people find difficult to do
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We try not to use

  • difficult words
  • abbreviations
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We explain difficult words

  • if we need to use them
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This helps everyone to

  • take part in the conversation
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Education about health care transitions

  • is important to us
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We want people with intellectual disability to

  • feel confident
  • believe in their right

to make their own health care decisions

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We support people with intellectual disability to

  • understand their right to make health care decisions
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  • make decisions about their health care
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  • feel more confident to be part of health care decisions
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We give information that is

  • accessible
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  • based on research
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We share information in many ways

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We explore

  • new research
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  • what research says works best
A book titled RULES
  • laws
A notebook title Policy
  • policies
A woman next to a sign saying Guidance

A policy is the instructions that

  • tell people how to follow a law
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We work together with

  • other groups
  • our team
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We work together with many different people

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We celebrate each other’s

  • skills
  • strengths
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When we work together like this

  • our strengths get better and better
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We work together with health care workers

  • to show respect to people with intellectual disability
A woman pointing at a book while helping a young girl study at a desk.

We work together with teachers

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Teachers can make sure students with intellectual disability

  • learn to make choices and decisions
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  • have many chances to make choices and decisions
  • feel confident to make choices and decisions
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We are brave

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We are not afraid to
• stand up for what is right

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We ask the world to show more

  • respect
  • inclusion
  • accessibility
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We always want to learn

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We welcome new ways of doing research.