Online Information Hub Provides Answers
6 October 2017 – The way people access information today is changing – something Hamilton-based charitable trust Life
Unlimited sees first hand as part of its on-going Ministry of Health disability information contract.
With this in mind Life Unlimited has designed an information resource with input from disabled people and their families
to provide the sort of information they said they wanted and needed.
Titled the Online Information Hub, it sits on the Life Unlimited website offering personalised information for whānau, family and carers and for people
with disabilities.
The Life Unlimited team will answer questions either by phone, email or on social media drawing from research or our
experience and provide relevant and credible responses.
Life Unlimited chief executive Mark Brown said the Online Information Hub had been developing and improving over the
past year. The hub has more than 80 articles covering subjects ranging from education, employment, wellbeing and
financial support.
More will be developed as people identified opportunities for other articles, he said.
Life Unlimited has also recently partnered with Attitude Pictures Ltd using their Question Time concept – an innovative and engaging way to deliver information through quirky interviews with
a diverse range of disabled people, made by disabled people for disabled people, their family and supporters.
“Our aim is to be a place where people find answers to their own questions, and also spread the word about the Life
Unlimited online hub and personalised disability information.
“If we don’t know the answer, we will find it or ensure we put people in touch with the people who will know it,” said
Mr Brown.
Life Unlimited has been providing disability information in the central North Island under contract to the Ministry of
Health for over 35 years.
The New Zealand disability support system is about to undergo a transformation based on the Enabling Good Lives vision
and principles.
“We felt it was important we design an information resource with input from disabled people and their families to
provide the sort of information they said they wanted and needed,” said Mr Brown.
“Having online videos available allows people with disabilities to tell their stories in an easily accessible way which
is why we partnered with Attitude Pictures.”
The first of the videos featuring Jai Waite goes live today.