Communication Confidence & Safe Steps Pilot — Inclusive Workshop & Showcase

Communication Confidence & Safe Steps Pilot — Inclusive Workshop & Showcase

A hybrid workshop and showcase bringing together peer leaders, clinicians and community partners to trial AAC-led communication strategies and present the Safe Steps Pilot model for reducing loneliness and social isolation among young people and victim-survivors of DFSV.

EduLinked invites you to a hybrid workshop and showcase that combines the Communication Confidence AAC toolkit and the Safe Steps Pilot — our trauma-informed, ND-affirming model for preventing and responding to social isolation and loneliness among young people and victim-survivors of domestic, family and sexual violence.

This session includes:

• A short, practical AAC-informed workshop featuring hands-on tools and Easy Read takeaways for people who find traditional communication environments challenging.
• A Safe Steps Pilot showcase explaining our Strategic Self-Advocacy model — the systems, safeguarding and evaluation approach we’re testing to create trauma-centred, digitally continuous participant journeys.
• A peer-led Creative Voices segment where non-speaking and marginalised participants share arts-led outputs and discuss how inclusion was built into delivery.
• Time for co-design conversation, Q&A, and sign-up for follow-up evaluation (baseline, completion and 3-month follow up using standard loneliness/wellbeing instruments).

This project is funded under the Communities Innovation Fund and aligns to the festival priorities of digital inclusion and accessible communication. It is free to attend, hybrid (in-person + livestream), and prioritises people with lived experience, young people (12–25), NDIS participants and DFSV survivors. Please tell us your attendance type on registration so we can reserve appropriate spaces.

Outcomes & commitments: Accessible materials will be shared after the event. We will capture anonymised evaluation data and provide clear referral and safeguarding pathways for anyone who needs support.

If demand exceeds seats we will prioritise participants from the primary cohorts (12–25, NDIS participants, victim-survivors). Please answer the short registration questions so we can allocate fairly.