Appendix 6 Post Interview Brain Storm with Monitors
As part of the participative monitoring process there was a mid-project meeting of the Monitors, Project Management Committee, Project Co-ordinator, and Data Analysis team at the Brentwood Hotel in Wellington5. At this point 94 interviews had been completed. The meeting included a brainstorm of issues and themes emerging from the interviews. The following is a summary of the issues noted by the Monitors during the interviews:
- Note #5
- Brain Storm with Monitors Brentwood, Hotel, Kilbirnie, Wellington, 6 August, 2010
- OT’s not listening to needs
- The right to appeal OT’s decisions
- OT’s as gate keepers…. Do they have too much power?
- Designers needed to design accessible and appropriate bathrooms
- Abuse of disability parking
- ACC cutting hours for home help and personal cares
- Carers-quality and quantity very inconsistent, not being able to say anything in case they lose support altogether
- Helplessness in the face of abuse
- WINZ benefit status
- Accessible and safe homes
- A lack of specific case managers
- Not being able to choose with whom they live (group housing? institutions)
- Accessibility to family/mail
- Lack of flexibility – home support … Five days without a shower
- Lack of respect and fairness
- Lack of awareness by front line staff i.e. WINZ and ACC
- People who stick up for themselves labelled as trouble makers, a label that sticks with them (on file) for life
- Social isolation – lack of family and friends
- Lack of training for staff who deal with disabled people
- Rural isolation particularly a lack of transport options
- Transport in general a problem
- Harassment of females by taxi drivers
- Custody of children
- Community Education re disabilities needed
- Community support and understanding, not making a big deal of disability
- People’s resilience
- Women’s refuge cannot accommodate disabled women
- Fear of repercussions as a result of what they disclose
- Autonomy and the right to complain
- Lack of dignity came up in most interviews