Guide

Disability Inclusive Volunteer Management Guide

Developed by the team from JFA Purple Orange, the guide provides information on disability awareness, inclusive recruitment and on-boarding processes.

It cover’s topics including – creating accessible and inclusive workplaces, barriers people with disability may come across, and embedding inclusivity across all your procedures and policies

Author : Purple Orange and Volunteering SA/NT

Customised Volunteering Booklet

Customising or carving a volunteering role is a person-centred approach to volunteer management. It recognises that each individual has different interests,
strengths, skills, experience, goals and support needs. This booklet will outline the practices of customised volunteering, and how it can provide benefits to individuals
and organisations.

Author : Southern Volunteering

Inclusive Volunteering Checklist

Making your volunteer program more inclusive for more people is easier than you think! This simple

checklist provides some practical steps to make sure everyone can access the benefits of volunteering.

Start your journey towards ore inclusive volunteering today.

Author : Volunteerability

Inclusive Attitudes

These tips will help you create a more welcoming environment, build stronger teams, and unlock the potential of all team members

Author : Australian Disability Network

Appropriate conversations

Creating welcoming volunteer teams through appropriate conversations. People being made to feel safe and welcome is critical as to
whether they keep coming back to volunteer. All staff and existing volunteers have a part to play in ensuring this happens, by having positive, non-judgmental
attitudes and making sure conversations are appropriate.

Author : Southern Volunteering SA Inc

Neuro-inclusive Recruiting

Neuro-inclusive Recruiting is a free online resource providing tips, insights, and guidance to build employer confidence in creating neuro-inclusive workplaces.

Neuro-inclusive Recruiting is an Autism SA initiative

Funded by the Australian Government Department of Social Services

Disability Employment Action Toolkit

*Disability Awareness online units – a comprehensive self-paced program designed to educate and empower individuals and organisations about the importance of disability inclusion. This course is ideal for business managers, human resource professionals and team leaders who are committed to fostering an inclusive working environment for people with cognitive disability.

*Self-paced online ‘Prepare for Hiring’ program is designed to equip employers, HR professionals, and managers with the skills and knowledge needed to streamline the hiring process and make informed decisions about hiring someone with a cognitive disability.

Authored by the Centre for Social Impact at Flinders University

Code of Conduct – Diversity and Inclusion

A Code of Conduct sets out the rules and expectations that members of an organisation must follow.

This resource includes a variety of options to include in your organisations code of conduct in regard to diversity and inclusion.

Author : Volunteerability

Plain language guide

Plain language can express complex ideas. Engage people with words they can understand quickly: use the list on this page. Plain language is different to Easy English.

Source: Australian Government

Inclusive Access to Buildings and other environments

Creating environments where everyone can participate with ease and respect. A guide and checklist

Source: Australian Disability Network