Events
Join us for an online event hosted by CPActive, dedicated to building the capacity of our community towards greater awareness and inclusion for people with disability.
Hosted by Mon Schafter and facilitated by the CPActive Champions Steering Committee members, this workshop aims to share the experiences of individuals from our CP community in order to provide a practical guide towards inclusion for our allies.
Mon Schafter is a Walkley Award-winning journalist and co-host of ABC TV’s Mardi Gras coverage. Mon has told countless stories for ABC TV’s 7.30 and Hungry Beast, and hosts the ABC podcast Innies + Outies, featuring uniquely Australian stories about coming out or staying in. Mon is the Content Lead of ABCQueer and co-chair of LGBTQIA+ youth support service Twenty10.
We’ll also be joined by Hannah Diviney, renowned writer, author, actress and disability rights activist.
We will share our stories, provide real life perspectives and explore solutions towards inclusion for people with disabilities, harnessing the power of diversity.
This event aims to be as interactive and engaging as possible, with tools to let you ask questions directly to our experts and guide you on your path as an ally to our community.
Small changes make a big impact, sign up today.
Join CPActive as we present the 2025 NSW Government Graduate Program information session, co-hosted with the NSW Public Service Commission.
This virtual event is focused at showcasing the 2025 NSW Government Graduate Program, giving you the opportunity to find out more about starting your career with Australia’s biggest employer.
You will hear from current NSW Government graduates about their experiences in the program, and get insights on working in the public sector from members of the NSW Public Service Leadership.
Learn about how the program works, including:
- Information about the program and the 5 streams
- The application and selection process
- The types of work you could be involved with that contribute to the future state of NSW
- Access and inclusion practices of the NSW Public Service
CPActive is working with the NSW Public Service Commission to support accessible and inclusive pathways to careers in the public sector for people with disability. This is your chance to find out more and start your career in public service in 2025!
The 2025 NSW Government Graduate Program is open to applications now and closes on the 14th August. See the NSW Government website for more details and apply today.
On July 9th, CPActive is hosting an exciting event dedicated to strengthening community through storytelling for people with cerebral palsy (CP) and allies.
Modelled around the power of shared experience, “Stories that Activate” is a unique opportunity to hear from people living with CP as they express their experiences through their chosen artform.
By understanding the experiences of people with disability, able-bodied individuals can become more effective allies and advocates for positive change.
This event will showcase artists with CP who share their experience through music, short film and other mediums, and aims to create a space where stories of resilience and advocacy can spark meaningful conversations and strengthen our collective commitment to inclusivity.
We will also have a short panel discussion with our featured artists to learn more about the experience of sharing stories through art, authentically.
Whether you are part of the CP community, a family member or carer, a healthcare professional, or simply someone who wants to learn and support, “Stories that Activate” promises to be an enriching and enlightening experience. Together, we can build a more inclusive world, one story at a time.
Register today to experience ‘Stories that Activate’!
Tell us what you want from CPActive this year!
Our newly formed Steering Committee have a few questions for our CPActive community – What issues matter to you? How do you want to use your voice for meaningful change? What would you like to see from CPActive in 2024?
Tell us at our at this CPActive Lived Experience Lab!
Who is this event for?
CPActive Lived Experience Labs are a space for people with CP and similar disabilities and their family members to come together as a community, share their experiences and raise the issues that matter to them. These events are a place you can connect with others and amplify your voice for change.
What can I expect from this Lived Experience Lab?
This will be an interactive, online event to collaborate, share ideas and continue learning from the community of people who attend. The CPActive Champion Steering Committee will share some of the work they are up to and facilitate discussion on topics that they feel are important for the CP community.
There will be plenty of opportunities for your input, including breakout rooms, polls and we always encourage people to use the chat or the interactive feedback tool we’ll have on the day.
What happens after the lived experience lab?
The CPActive Champion Steering Committee will use your input and feedback to shape the CPActive advocacy priorities for the year. We’ll also be sharing some of our findings at our first public Town Hall event we’re planning to hold in June.
Register today!
CPActive is on a mission to create a world of opportunity, access and possibility for people with disabilities. And right now, there’s a proposal underway with state and federal governments to build a Hub for Human Potential. We are asking the CPActive community to come together and share what YOU think the Hub should be able to deliver.
Come along to get a briefing on the Human Hub for Potential concept – what it’s all about – and have your voice heard about how this incredible initiative could support people with disability in Australia.
You’ll also hear from exciting guest speakers, including Georgina Henry, a Research Assistant of Epidemiology at the Cerebral Palsy Alliance Research Institute.
The three pillars of innovation in this Hub will be:
- Learning: Education and upskilling
- Livelihood: Entrepreneurship and enabling work
- Living: Inclusive play, travel, sport and recreation
Do you have experiences to share, ideas or tech solutions, or even suggestions around how the Hub for Human Potential can solve the problem around the tech innovation we need in Australia? Come to this special community forum and tell us all about it.
Who is this event for?
This event is a small group session focussed on hearing the experiences and ideas of people with lived experience of disability, including family members and carers.
While we encourage allies and supporters to attend many of our CPActive events, this lived experience lab is primarily for people with lived experience of disability.
We need the voices of lived experience to be at the heart of this design process. So come along and tell us what you think.
Register now!
An international event not to be missed, this awards ceremony will showcase all the best and brightest ideas to change the lives of people with CP.
This World CP Day we asked the global community to share their ideas. And now, we’ll be showcasing the top ideas and announcing the winners of this year’s contest.
The awards ceremony will be hosted by Australian disability rights advocate Elly Desmarchelier and feature some more exciting guests and panellists to be announced soon.
We will be announcing up to two winners of the World CP Day Awards, with a USD $5,000 cash prize, so come along and find out with the rest of the world!
More details about special guests will be announced closer to the date, but RSVP now to reserve your spot.
Captioning will be provided, if you have any additional access requirements please include them when registering, or questions please email info@cpactive.org.au.
We believe that the best innovators in the world are people with disabilities. And we think people with disabilities should be at the centre of technology development and innovation.
Come and join Riley Saban, an entrepreneur in disability tech, who will be hosting the event live using eye-gaze speech generating technology. We think it might be the first time an event host is running an event like this using Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) and we want everyone to be there! No matter what age or ability.
We want to know: What barriers do you encounter that technology could solve? And what great ideas do you have that you want to share with the community?
Come along to our event on Wednesday August 23, 12pm and hear from some of the world’s best disability tech innovators about how to go from a small idea to a world-wide solution.
Riley’s AAC tech that he will be using to run the live event, is a shining example of how innovation and technology enable people with disability in life changing ways.
With the World CP Day competition of global ideas for tech innovation just around the corner, this is our chance as an Australian community to get together and generate ideas and have our voices heard.
We think we can create something incredible by using your problem solving skills, combined with the know-how of some of the world’s best technology creators.
Anything is possible when our community comes together.
Who is it for?
This event is for everyone of all generations and different backgrounds, because technology is for all of us. Whether you are a person with a disability, a carer, a family member, or an ally, we want to hear from you.
This event is for all ages. Please let us know your accessibility needs when you register.
Register now!
The 2023 NSW election has been the seeding ground for a new era of advocacy where campaigns are run and won entirely by people with lived experience.
Come and hear from us, CPActive Champions, about how we created a campaign that will now change the way that thousands of young people with disabilities journey from school to work in NSW – and what’s next.
You’ll get to hear all about the inside tactics of the campaign and learn how to apply them yourself – OR simply hear about how you can get involved in the CPActive campaign right now.
Tuesday May 23rd, 6pm AEST
Register now
Zoom link to be sent via email
Whether you are a parent wanting to find out more about the new ways that young people with cerebral palsy are changing the country and the exciting potential ahead for your child – or someone who wants to show up and support people with disability in having their voice heard – this event is for you.
We encourage anyone and everyone to turn up and hear about the new era of advocacy (and, if you’re not sure what advocacy is, then you are about to find out all about it!)
This event, alike the Blaze the Trail campaign itself, will be hosted entirely by people with cerebral palsy and we would love to have everyone show up and support us.
Register for the event now! We can’t wait to see you there.
We’re a group of students and young adults in our early careers with cerebral palsy who have come together this year to advocate on issues that matter to us.
And we’re inviting you to a virtual launch of our Blaze the Trail campaign.
We have been working tirelessly to develop actionable policy that creates accessible pathways from school to work, especially for those living with cerebral palsy and similar disabilities.
Come along and join us to hear about our campaign and what change we want to see to make school and work more inclusive.
We’re starting our campaign in NSW ahead of the election, but these issues are important to so many young people with a disability right across the country. So we want everyone to come along and hear what it’s all about.
RSVP on this page so we know you’re in!
Who is invited?
You are! Whether you are someone disability, a friend, family member or carer of someone with disability, a corporate partner or simply someone who wants to hear more and support our campaign. We encourage you to join us.
Can’t make it? Make sure you join our campaign, and we’ll keep you up to date with our next virtual event, coming soon!
Please let us know of your accessibility requirements in the RSVP form.
We are a group of students and young adults in our early careers with cerebral palsy who have come together this year to advocate on issues that matter to us. You can call us: CPActive Next Gen.
Using the CPActive platform, we have been working tirelessly to develop an actionable policy that creates accessible pathways from school to work, especially for those living with cerebral palsy and similar disabilities.
Come along and join us to hear about our campaign and what change we want to see in NSW to make school and work more inclusive.
Join us on Wednesday November 23 at 12pm to 2pm
Level 26 Tower 3/300 Barangaroo Ave, Sydney
Register on this page to come and join us as we launch our campaign, in our voices.
What: CPActive NextGen Champions Campaign Launch
When: Wednesday, November 23 from 12pm – 2pm
Where: KPMG Offices, Level 26, Tower 3/300 Barangaroo Avenue, Sydney
Who: Hear about our campaign, in our voices: CPActive NextGen champions
A light catered lunch will be provided for guests. Please email dietary requirements to info@cpactive.org.au.
How to get there:
- By train: Wynyard Station – Follow the signs for Exit 4 where you will find a lift that takes you up to the main Barangaroo concourse
- By ferry: Barangaroo Ferry Wharf where there are accessible opal gates and a flat journey from the wharf to the Tower
- By car: The nearest car park is King Street Wharf Secure Parking, 1 Shelley Street, Sydney. Entry via Shelley street. The car park has disability access with a restricted lift and a ramp. The journey from this car park to Barangaroo Tower 3 is approximately 5 minutes via a pathway with accessible pedestrian crossings.
For more options: https://www.barangaroo.com/visit/getting-here/transport-options
Who is invited?
You are! Whether you are someone with a disability who is a student, a young person or an adult, or a friend, family member or carer of someone with disability, a corporate partner or simply someone who wants to hear more and support our campaign. We encourage you to join us.
Can’t make it? Make sure you join our campaign, and we’ll keep you up to date with our next virtual event, coming soon!
Auslan and captioning will be provided. A special thank you to KPMG for supporting CPActive by giving us special access to their offices in the heart of Sydney to launch this campaign.