Disability Support Worker Awards

The Disability Support Worker Awards recognise up to five individuals and one team of disability support workers. The awards provide the opportunity to acknowledge the achievements and celebrate the invaluable, and sometimes invisible, contribution of these workers in the Victorian disability services field.

Who is eligible?

Any individual (employed as a disability support worker for at least two years) or team of disability support workers, employed in a Victorian disability services managed or funded service is eligible.

Who can nominate?

Colleagues, managers and people with a disability and their friends or families can nominate either an individual or a team for an award.

The Awards will be presented at the Disability Support Worker Conference on 19 November 2009.

NOMINATIONS CLOSE ON THE 18th SEPTEMBER 2009

Further Information
Awards flyer (pdf document 340KB)
Awards flyer (Microsoft Word document 1MB)
Nomination form (pdf document 198KB)
Nomination form (Microsoft Word document 767KB)
Or you can locate a nomination form at:www.dhs.vic.gov.au/disability/dswawards

For more information contact Tel: (03) 9096 2980 Email: wdl@dhs.vic.gov.au

A combined initiative of National Disability Services Victoria, Disability Professionals Victoria, Health and Community Services Union, Australian Education Union, Australasian Society for the Study of Intellectual Disability and the Department of Human Services.