Stepping Into applications are open now! University students in their final or penultimate year can Apply Here to be considered for a summer work placement in their field of study.
Have a read of one of our previous Stepping Into interns’ experience working with the NSW Department of Family and Community Services.
GEORGA’S INTERNSHIP DELIVERS DOSE OF CONFIDENCE
Georga Kemp, 24, was studying a Bachelor of Visual Communication Design at the University of Newcastle when she received an email from her disability liaison unit about Stepping Into. “At the time, I wasn’t really keen on what I was doing at university. I needed something to get me back on track and help me work out what I wanted to do,” said Georga. When Georga first applied for Stepping Into in 2016, she was looking for something to do over the summer university break. One year and two Stepping Into internships later, Georga is now working on a large-scale project for the NSW Department of Family and Community Services (FACS) on an extended contract. Read more about Georga’s Stepping Into experiences here.
What is ‘Disability’?
The Australian Network on Disability follows the definition from The Disability Discrimination Act (1992).
Disability is any impairment, abnormality, or loss of function, of any part of the body or mind. This includes:
- -Physical – affects someone’s mobility or dexterity
- -Intellectual – affects someone’s ability to learn
- -Mental Illness – affects thought processes
- -Sensory – may affect someone’s ability to hear or see
- -Neurological - affects someone’s brain and central nervous system e.g. brain tumours, epilepsy, Parkinson's disease
- -Learning disability – affects the way a person learns
- -Physical disfigurement
- -Immunological -the presence of organisms causing disease in the body e.g. arthritis, MS, IBD, Lupus, Diabetes
For further information about the Stepping Into program, contact Philip Zamora or Isabel Heiner at the Australian Network on Disability at 1300 36 36 45 or email applications@and.org.au.