Posts by Sacha
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Tis me, the deleter. Note that "AOD" is short for Alcohol and Other Drugs. If either alcohol or nicotine were presented for approval under current frameworks, they'd be met with laughter and disdain. Unlike a substance with therapeutic benefits and no lethal dose ..
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I welcome children asking about how we do stuff rather than what's wrong with us, but I guess my differences are less obvious than some others. And there are some areas I'm not going into, no. Sorry, inquisitive child at the mall.
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Access: What Your Child Needs To Know…, in reply to Moz,
* you're wearing a dress
* you're a boy
* boys don't wear dressesLoved watching a toddler on the summer grass in seaside Devonport many years ago trying to make sense of the brief back-and-forth scene (at about 9m) in a live performance of this beautiful dance (nsfw) by Douglas Wright and Debra McCulloch. Her parents had no words. #bodylanguage
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Access: Fighting seclusion with…, in reply to Neil,
I mean senior DHB/MoH managers, not the treating team. They aren't doing a great job of communicating about the professional constraints faced. The Ministry's senior mental health advisor was a picture of caution when interviewed by RNZ.
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Access: Disability as a wicked policy problem, in reply to Hilary Stace,
it feels like she is patting you on the head
traditional low expectations
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Access: Disability as a wicked policy problem, in reply to Rosemary McDonald,
Be interesting to quantify the $$$ spent on blocking access to funding to the 'person'...and identifying the snouts in the trough.
I've long thought that just providing what people ask for would be cheaper than saying no.
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Access: Disability as a wicked policy problem, in reply to Rosemary McDonald,
The total disability-related spend (not just support services) across all of govt is over $4b each year which is another reason people should be concerned about the quality of its management. Wagner seems poorly-informed about the portfolio in general and her pompous tone in that interview really angered me. What is she like to deal with?
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Access: Fighting seclusion with…, in reply to Neil,
this schism of opinion with those involved in his care on a daily basis on one side
We seem to hear that position mediated only by risk-averse managers, which does not enhance trust.
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Yay for re-releases. I will always remember Inside a Quiet Mind as the soundtrack to a drive through the Buller Gorge after The Gathering one year. Awesome reflection of the NZ bush.
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Access: Fighting seclusion with…, in reply to Neil,
who do not take restricting someone's freedoms lightly
Yet this review has found they are not taking other options than locking people up which overseas institutions seem to manage to do.