2023 wrapped!
Wow, what an incredible year we’ve had! Our CPActive community has achieved so much and we wanted to take the time to appreciate everything we’ve done over the last twelve months: We launched the ‘Blaze the Trail’ campaign Led entirely by our CPActive champions, we kicked off a campaign to improve pathways from school […]
The global CP community comes together for the World CP Day Awards
More than 300 submissions from 30-plus countries gathered over 23,000 votes, helping our judges shortlist the most impactful ideas. Last week our global CP community gathered for a virtual event to find out the results of the campaign – and we are thrilled to share that the winner for 2023 is Maria Dalmon with her […]
What being part of CPActive means
By Maria Dalmon, CPActive Member A few weeks ago, I had the great honour of speaking at a CPActive virtual Town Hall. The event’s topic was “The Future on Technology and Innovation” and was hosted by Riley Saban, a disability tech entrepreneur, using his eye-gaze speech generating technology. My cerebral palsy makes my speech difficult to […]
CPActive Champions recognised for their leadership at ICMS panel
Champions Nicholas Lapsley and Meret Hassanen spoke at a Masterclass panel at the International College of Management Sydney on Diversity in Leadership. Led by Dr Trevor Clark, the Undergraduate Dean at ICMS, the panel explored the importance of diversity in leadership and what we can learn from it. Nicholas spoke eloquently on the assumptions that […]
CPActive gets a shoutout on national TV!
It was great to hear a shoutout to CPActive from Hannah Diviney on national ABC show The Drum last Friday! If you missed it, you can listen to the panel discussion starting at the 15-minute mark by checking out the full recording here. Hannah Diviney is a disability advocate, actress and the Editor-in-Chief of Missing […]
CPActive champions meet with local candidates ahead of the NSW state election
As part of the CPActive Blaze the Trail campaign, CPActive champions organised a ‘Day of Action’ that was held last week at the Allambie Campus. These young trail blazers took it upon themselves to organise local candidates from all parties in the upcoming state election to hear about the lived experience of CP and to […]
New commitments to improve school and work for young people with disabilities
Young people with cerebral palsy in NSW have welcomed NSW Labor’s commitment today that if elected they will introduce specific policies to make the pathways from school to work more accessible for people with disabilities. The CPActive ‘Blaze the Trail’ campaign has been advocating for these reforms for months and disability advocates say that it’s […]
What a year!
It’s been a big year for CPActive, with lots of events and the launch of our Blaze the Trail campaign. Three of our Champions- Ben Andrews, Meret Hassanen and Tash Garritty recap what happened in 2022. By Ben Andrews: First full year of CPActive done & dusted. People with a disability face barriers everyday, myself […]
Blaze the Trail: Creating a Better Future
By Marusha Pride Wednesday, 23rd November, was the launch of CPActive’s Blaze the Trail campaign. A world firstcampaign that was design by an incredible group of young people to build better pathways fromschool to work. Fourteen CPActive champions- Sophie Geeves, Eric Barrett, Nicholas Lapsley, EireanWood, Meret Hassanen, Declan Lee (who, unfortunately, could not be there […]
Highlights from the World CP Day Awards
On October 14th, CPActive hosted the World Cerebral Palsy Day Awards! It was amazing to come together and celebrate the creativity and innovation of our global community, and it was pretty cool to be joined by some red-carpet superstars. We were joined by Hollywood superstar RJ Mitte, who reflected “If we provide accessibility to everyone, we […]