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Community Capacity Building and Engagement (CCBE)

An inclusive community benefits everyone, not just people with disability and developmental concerns. BUSHkids uses a community-centred model, valuing the differences in people and promoting strong, responsive, and resilient communities capable of quickly responding to emerging needs and challenges. BUSHkids’ CCBE team has been working on an initiative to support inclusion of children with disability and developmental concerns into inclusive sporting associations, beginning with the “BUSHkids All Can Cricket” project. Project Advocate is our BUSHkids Resource Assistant, Allycia Staples. Allycia is a passionate self-advocate within her community and is dedicated to furthering inclusion in the arts, particularly the Performing Arts. Allycia has served as the Queensland representative for Our Voice – a committee that works with Inclusion Australia , the National Peak Body for People with Intellectual Disability. Allycia is also a member of Loud and Clear , a Sunshine Coast-based self- advocacy group. She is passionate about supporting inclusive welcoming communities to enable people with disability and developmental concerns to flourish and achieve their goals. The BUSHkids All Can Cricket project endeavours to increase participation of children with developmental concern and disability in the next twelve months, and long term is looking to build inclusive coaching programs and supporting sporting associations and clubs through accreditation.