In March, three CommunityWest staff (Louise Forster, Katie Foster and Maddie Bull) attended the second ‘Blackboard Elluminate Collaborate Online Conference’. The event was attended from a staff member's home so it was possible to link up a laptop to a flat screen TV allowing a number of people to access sound and thevisual display at the one time.

The Independent Living Centre will soon change a number of course titles to reflect recent changes made by WorkSafe in relation to manual handling.The main focus of the new 'Code of Practice Manual Tasks  2010' will be on preventing injury when workers are required to engage in manual tasks. Read on for further details.

Katie Foster, one of CommunityWest's newest team members, joined a Mercy Care Support Worker for the day as they provided HACC support to four clients. Katie found this an invaluable experience to be able to 'walk a mile in the shoes' of a Support Worker, as well as a HACC client. Our thanks go to Mercy Care for supporting this initiative, in particular, the Support Worker and clients involved who Katie was able to learn so much from during her visit.