Deb Whitecross Enterprises
Business Management in Ballarat

Deb Whitecross Enterprises is a disability strategy service that specialises in helping organizations meet their disability requirements and lead innovative change. * Mentoring and Leadership Packages . . * "Good Access is Good Business" information sessions. * Accessible Tourism . * Adaptable Housing Info . * A 2 hour session on Good Governance that helps Community based Advisory Committees (or the like) to be the most effective and influential they can be. This includes information about being proactive, recruiting the most appropriate members and helping to retain valuable members and so on . * A disability awareness quiz that is fun and interactive for everyone from the CEO to people with a disability and ensures a greater understanding and "buy in" from staff . Disability Training . Stay tuned for further information. * Compliance with Quality Framework and independent reporting - DWE is in the process of becoming accredited to audit disability service providers for compliance with the Quality Framework. . * Policy Development - you need a policy? DWE has extensive experience with developing effective and meaningful policies. . * Access Audits and Appraisals - DWE can offer 3 types of access audits: a thorough technical audit and report (and compliance with AS 1428 parts 1-4), an access appraisal (less formal type of audit) with report and an unofficial assessment of access provision based on common sense access provisions. . * Monitoring and reporting progress of Plans - as part of managing a DAP effectively and ensuring it becomes a living and working document, it is recommended to montor progress of the actions on a 6 monthly basis. . This model captures Qualitative and Quantitative data and has the potential to measure attitudinal change. * Reviews of Strategies (including the "traffic light model of review") - the traffic light model of review is not a new concept per se, however, DWE has implemented this model to review all types of unique strategies. . DWE is a specialist in helping to develop DAPs. It also has the added bonus that it will mitigate your risk from costy litigation should someone decide to make a formal complaint against your organisation. * Disability Action Plans - creating a disability action plan (DAP) is a strategic plan to eliminate discrimination and to create a more inclusive, accessible environment for people with a disability. * Workshop Facilitation Disability Strategies: . * Event Management . * Projects . * Disability Training . * Disability Strategies . These include: . DWE is able to deliver a variety of professional services for you or your affiliates. Our strategies deliver a no-nonsense, working document that improves disability access and inclusion within the community. Deb has been a catalyst for innovation in the field of disability access and inclusion and has facilitated broad reaching outcomes on limited budgets. Deb has regular public speaking appointments across Victoria in relation to her experience in developing and reviewing Disability Action Plans - her “Traffic light model of review” captures qualitative and quantitative data in order to measure community attitudes to people with a disability as well as performance measures against identified objectives. Deb has a reputation as a person who has created ‘measurable outcomes’ for various related projects and is recognised by key notaries as providing leading edge disability strategies and initiatives. Deb Whitecross, Director of DWE, is herself unique in both depth and breadth of experience in the field. We also have many years experience in facilitation, project management and presentation. We are a specialist disability strategy service that helps create disability action plans and reviews and are currently seeking accreditation to audit via the Quality Framework processes. * "Easy English" and.