“I love it when a plan comes together!”
A huge shout out to Pure Hair Toowoomba for leading the way in local businesses diversifying and enriching their workplace! Hannah is deaf and her first language is Auslan. Pure Hair has employed Hannah in a customer-focussed industry – hairdressing and she is thriving in it!
Pure Hair has 2 exceptional salons at Westridge Shopping Centre and The Ridge Shopping World.
Hannah’s qualities of fearlessness, enthusiasm and initiative grabbed the attention of owner, Taren. Her and salon manager, Michelle are thrilled for the tenacious and enthusiastic addition to their team! As part of Hannah’s transition into DW’s support worker, Ashlee has been interpreting for Hannah and interpreting for her with her new colleagues and clients with any adjustments that arise. Taren has both welcomed the support and enjoyed the extra communication in the salon.
We are also delighted for the team at Pure Hair who will be extending their multi-lingual skills with DW Auslan lessons to increase effectiveness of their communication with Hannah.
In addition to Ashlee’s services during Hannah’s time in the salon, the DW team is also supporting Hannah in her new position with off-site support in her training workbooks. Since English is Hannah’s second language, our team gives her learning support.
What a team! What a girl! Hannah - we are so excited to be supporting your employment and training journey and thrilled to be able to play a part in everyone expanding their linguistic skills through this experience!
(see the WIN News story on Facebook here)
Employment Connection: Vin at Help Enterprises

Joshua’s culinary skills have come a long way from learning cheese on toast! Last weekend, Joshua and his support worker Jason did a master chef day.
Joshua made a three-layered cake with strawberry cream and white chocolate sauce in middle, choc fudge chocolate cake, strawberry coulis served with chocolate coated strawberries!
Great teamwork and such great fun!  …so where’s our piece, guys? 😊

We welcome Delia as our new Coordinator for the South Burnett area. As the need for our support packages has grown in this region, we are so excited and grateful to enrich our team with Delia! With extensive experience in the disability sector, she also holds a fantastic reputation in both the Kingaroy community and local disability sector. 
It is also worth the mention that some of us have had the privilege of sampling her delicious cooking – perhaps not essential to her role in the team, but very much appreciated nonetheless! 😊
We do still have support available for more participants in the South Burnett area - if you have an NDIS package and would like our specialised and individualised support packages, email [email protected] and we’ll put you in contact with Delia – she’d love to chat with you!

ANNOUNCEMENT - presenting our new Coordinator, Kurdish Community – Sarwet!
This new role helps coordinate the many DW participants in Toowoomba from the Kurdish Kurmanji community with @NDIS packages. As well as this, Sarwet works as an interpreter for the local Kurdish community. With his invaluable ongoing support and commitment to our team, we are honoured to have such a trusted person within the Kurdish community like Sarwet.
Social inclusion is one of DW Consultancy’s core foundational values and we happily welcome other language groups and relish the opportunity to assist their inclusion into our community. Thank you Sarwet for what you contribute to our team and to the greater local community!
Do you know of any local Kurdish families needing our support? Email [email protected] for our registered NDIS provider support services.

Announcing the new Western Downs Coordinator for DW Consultancy, Candi Smith!
Our services in the Western Downs area have grown so much, particularly with NDIS participants. Growing up in Warwick means Candi feels very “at home” in regional areas and her extensive experience in support work means she is more than capable to operate with our increasing support work in the area. We're always grateful for her caring heart and expertise in our team!

Did you know David Wallis Consultancy services the Regency Downs, Plainland, Laidley, Withcott and Gatton areas? Our innovative team’s approach to support work, along with our excellent Auslan training resources are available in this beautiful valley region! We are a registered NDIS provider and excellent at aligning NDIS goals in to work for the best outcome with our participants. Email us on [email protected] to register your interest and find out more information.  

The team at David Wallis want to acknowledge the team at Westridge Medical and their incredible efforts to assist our participants. We needed to set up doctor's appointments for a Kurdish family who have 2 children with disabilities.
The appointment was for government required documentation and we would supply the needed interpreter. Our team were getting a little despondent contacting 4 other medical centres unable to take on the family due to the restrictions in 15-minute time limit appointments and the need for an interpreter. 
However, instead of focussing on restrictions, the helpful and very accommodating team at Westridge Medical instead found solutions to both help our vulnerable family while also keeping their staff safe with staggered appointments. A huge thank you to this wonderful team of health professionals for being inclusive and accommodating for people who require an interpreter in our multi-cultural Toowoomba Community!

In other news…. Sandra the Adventurer has turned 55! Bree and Natasha - members of the DW team celebrated with a mini birthday party and cake. HAPPY BIRTHDAY SANDRA!!!!
{But wait…there’s more!} Previous years, Sandra has never done anything to commemorate Anzac Day, but this year was able to place flowers at the Mother's Memorial in remembrance of her grandfather who fought in one of the wars. A beautiful moment to witness!

As well as this, Sandra the Adventurer has been out enjoying the fresh air and the local gardens. She had never been to local treasure, Newtown Rose Gardens. With a beautiful place like this – the sights and smells – how could you not have a smile that big on your face?! Twelve months ago, Sandra had not left her house in years apart from medical appointments. Now she has enjoyed stretching her legs in local parks and gardens and her face says it all – along with her support workers Bree and Natasha, Sandra has loved every minute of it!