Name of Organisation

Address

Phone

Fax

Email

Web Address

Hours Open

Contact Person

Geographical Area Serviced

Regional Groups & Contact Details (if applicable)

Briefly state your organisation's aims, objectives and activities

Who can be a member? (This might be age, gender, geographical, ethnic or disease based.)

Does your organisation have a particular area of interest? (These might be disease specific or defined in some other way such as a disability group with a focus on raising the awareness about the needs of spinal injury patients.)

National Yes No

State Yes No

Local Yes No
 

Responding to/commenting on papers, facts sheets, web sites, education packs Yes No

Questionnaires and surveys Yes No

Representatives on boards Yes No

Membership of advisory/steering committees/reference groups Yes No

Focus groups Yes No

Individual and group interviews Yes No

Panels Yes No

Public meetings Yes No

Workshops/seminars/conferences Yes No

Training/education activities Yes No

Advocacy Yes No

Unknown Yes No
 

To be negotiated Yes No
 

Evaluation Yes No

Feedback Yes No

Policy Yes No

Quality Yes No

Standards Yes No

Research Yes No

Ethics Yes No

Strategic Planning Yes No

Service Planning Yes No

Training Yes No
 

Education Yes No
 

Unknown Yes No
 

To be negotiated Yes No
 

Payment for time at meetings and preparation time Yes No

Reimbursement of costs (travel, childcare, carer/respite, attendant carer) Yes No

Carer/respite, childcare to be offered Yes No

Responsiveness to special requirements including dietary, transport Yes No

Orientation to organisation, health system, main issues, and mentoring by a staff member Yes No

Refreshment Yes No

Administrative support Yes No

Written material in easy English and supporting documentation supplied, if the document is lengthy an executive summary needs to be provided Yes No

Translation and interpretative support Yes No

Time for reading and/or to gain input from membership/board of management Yes No

Project responsiveness to individual needs of participant including, time during meetings to understand and to ask questions, acknowledgement of the ability of member and their disability, meetings held at a time convenient to use public transport Yes No

Staff, attendant carer or support person of family member to assist in travel to the project and or participation in the meeting Yes No

Hearing access (or hearing augmentation) for example an audio loop or note taker Yes No

Materials produced in a format which meets the requirements of the particular individual e.g. large print, audio, Braille, in an appropriate format for disk (word or plain text formats) Yes No

Meetings are held to time (often respite is booked for set times or people need to catch public transport) Yes No

Assistance with writing, and reading holding and turning pages Yes No

Payment for staff time in recruiting, selecting supporting and mentoring participants Yes No

Two consumers or carers rather than one to attend meetings Yes No