New Fed Square Exhibition will show why a National Disability Insurance Scheme is crucial for Australia and all Australians

Today many hundreds of young people find themselves being cared for in nursing homes
surrounded by people in their 80s. An exhibition to be launched by Australia's Disability
Discrimination Commissioner Graeme Innes at Fed Square next week will allow the public to
hear their stories and learn how they have struggled.

Home to Home. Stories of Building Better Lives, 10 – 13 April, the Atrium, Fed Square,
features 20 digital stories that are touching and inspiring, and reveal a part of our society that
is usually hidden away.

A sister shares her anguish at seeing her brother living in a nursing home following a
motorcycle accident that left him with a brain injury. A woman tells how scary it was as a 6
year-old to visit her mother in a nursing home. A young Mum talks of how she had a stroke
when her daughter was three months old and how she could no longer care for her.

"For many of these storytellers, a National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) would have
meant that they would have been provided with lifetime care and support, instead of battling
to find funds and get access to rehabilitation, and appropriate and timely therapies," said
Disability Discrimination Commissioner Graeme Innes.

"This exhibition is a credit to the people who have bravely shared their very personal stories
with us, in the hope that the community can be educated as to why the introduction of an
NDIS is critical," said Dr Di Winkler, Director Building Better Lives, "anywhere, anytime, any
one of us could acquire a brain injury and be faced with the prospect of entering an aged
care nursing home, which is an entirely inappropriate place for young people."

Home to Home Exhibition launch. Monday 9 April at 5pm, the Atrium, Fed Square.
Netlink: http://www.buildingbetterlives.org.au/home-to-home-digital-story-exhibition/

For further information contact:
Kate Carmichael, Communications Manager 0413 715 955, kate.carmichael@bbl.org.au

About Building Better Lives
Launched by the Summer Foundation in 2009, Building Better Lives aims to engage the
public and the corporate sector in raising funds to build an integrated housing model where
young people with disability can live in, and be a part of, the community.
http://www.buildingbetterlives.org.au

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