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Scholarship helps close the gap in Indigenous leadership and disability support Applications for the 2019 Growing Potential Indigenous Scholarship in the field of National Disability Insurance Scheme Business Development are now open. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people across the…
Our Executive General Manager, Dylan Reynolds, and Manager of Windaan Aboriginal Services, Joseph Archibald, will join an expert team of keynote speakers at the National Disability Summit on August 20-21, 2018. The 9th Annual National Disability Summit will take place…
This Naidoc Week, we feature Carroll Towney, an inspiration Kamilaroi woman dedicated to bettering the world around her through her work with Aboriginal Health.
When asked what inspires her, Carroll said that as an Aboriginal woman she believes it is important to have role models who are a tower of strength to look up to.
“With the national NAIDOC theme for 2018 being ‘Because of Her, We Can’, I would like to acknowledge and give thanks to my sisters Tracey, Belinda, Alison and Megen. My sisters are my tower of strengths, we may not agree, we fight, but when I need support I know can rely on them giving me strength to carry on.”
Making a difference to the lives of Aboriginal people with a disability is what drives Carroll Towney, the first recipient of the Growing Potential Scholarship.
The scholarship is a joint initiative between Growing Potential Limited and the University of New England (UNE) that will provide an opportunity for four Indigenous students to study a Graduate Certificate in NDIS Business Development between 2018 and 2021.
Carroll works as the Quality & Strategic Development Officer at Galambila Aboriginal Health Service in Coffs Harbour, NSW. She travelled to Sydney to accept her scholarship at a function held at UNE’s Sydney Campus.
“I was overwhelmed with emotion and didn’t think I could do an acceptance speech,” Carroll said.
“I would like to thank UNE Vice-Chancellor Professor Annabelle Duncan and Otto Henfling of Growing Potential Limited for the opportunity to study business development in disability services.”
“The Graduate Certificate in NDIS Business Development Scholarship will allow me to gain greater knowledge to assist Galambila’s workforce to respond to the needs of our clients with disabilities. It will also help my capacity to work along-side the Windaan team to provide culturally appropriate NDIS support to the Aboriginal Community of Coffs Harbour, giving the best possible health and wellbeing outcomes to our mob.”
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