INTRODUCING THE 2025 LIFE GOALS & SKILLS BLAST – Cairns

NOTE: A minimum of 6 attendees are needed for this event to go ahead so please register if you are interested in attending. Once the minimum number has been reached, we can schedule a date.

Please note that by registering for this workshop, this constitutes your acceptance of a Service Agreement between yourself and Hear For You.

What is the Life Goals & Skills Blast??

This is the condensed version of our flagship Life Goals & Skills Program so instead of 4 separate sessions over 4 months, we are running it over one weekend!

Why should teenagers with a hearing loss attend?

• You want to meet our legendary Mentors, who have a hearing loss just like you, and more importantly “get it”.

• Our Mentors have actual life experience of living with hearing aids or Cochlear Implants – they know what it’s like when the battery goes flat!
• You feel confused or have “lots of questions” about living in a hearing world, or simply have ideas or views you want to share.
• You are finding being a deaf teenager a little (or very) frustrating, and need a safe place where you can share frustrations, gain ideas, or simply work out plans to improve an area of your life at school, at your hobby, within your family, or just with anyone.
• You want to hang out with other people who are just like you and just “get it”!

• A Parent Session on Saturday for parents/teachers of the deaf

LIMITED SPOTS AVAILABLE SO REGISTER NOW!

Date: 13 and 14 September 2025

Time: 9.30-3.30pm

Venue: Cairns TBC

Please note that by registering for this workshop, this constitutes your acceptance of a Service Agreement between yourself and Hear For You.

Interpreters

A s of 1st January 2023, we will no longer be covering costs of interpreters. These costs will need to be covered by funds in your NDIS plan.

We are happy to help with the booking but will not be paying for the costs.

Providing accessible programs and workshops for all our participants is incredibly important to us at Hear For You and The Shepherd Centre. It is a key area of advocacy for us with Governments and the NDIS. We know making sure the NDIS understands the need for interpreting services is critical through claiming these services in participant plans. When these funds are covered philanthropically through organizations, there is no awareness of the need or funding requirements., nor is it sustainable for organizations to cover these costs through fundraising.

If you need help with liaising with the NDIA to secure this funding in your NDIS plan, please contact us at [email protected]

Please be advised that by providing us with your child’s details, you agree and give consent to your child to join in Hear For You’s programs/workshops. Hear For You will keep and maintain your details and your child’s details in our database. We, Hear For You, will not share your/your child’s details with other organisations.