• The podcast is created by and for people with disabilities.
• Sam works as a support worker and peer supporter.
• Social Role Valorization emphasizes the rights of people with disabilities.
• Training for support workers includes understanding the needs of individuals with disabilities.
• Lived experience is crucial in training support workers.
• Sam is passionate about photography and environmental protection.
• Traveling for photography has been a significant part of Sam's life.
• Sam's childhood involved moving around Queensland due to his father's job.
• Health challenges, including open heart surgery, shaped Sam's early life.
• Sam is writing a book to inspire others with disabilities.

Help Sam reach his target to publish his book “Learning to Grow” - https://gofund.me/22df2556

See Sam’s awesome photographer here, you can also purchase prints! - https://samuelmacdonaldphotography.mypixieset.com/

Follow Sam’s work here: https://www.instagram.com/samuelmacdonaldphotography/

Lagoon Creek Cafe: https://bettertogether.net.au/ccwc/lagoon-creek-cafe-function-room/

The course Sam mentioned: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1120147879669676&id=100050234233308&set=a.600975384920264&locale=is_IS ← no cost training for Australian citizens.

To qualify for the program a participant must be unemployed or working up to 25 hours per week.

Our next night class will start the 20th of October and will run a Monday Tuesday and Wednesday from 4.30pm- 8pm. The whole course runs for 21 weeks however 3 of those weeks will include your 120 hours of placement in industry ( which we do support with)

It also includes approximately $1500 worth of added value training with things like First aid and CPR, mental health First aid, epilepsy training, diabetes training etc etc .

For further information please call Jenny on 0404020517.

Lagoon Creek Cafe: https://bettertogether.net.au/ccwc/lagoon-creek-cafe-function-room/