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Building the capacity of the community to be inclusive through sport.

COMMUNITY SPORT

Life Stream Australia is committed to working with State Sporting Organisations, schools and the community, to build their capacity to inclusive of all people, including those who have a disability, through sport.
Life Stream Australia delivers the Community Sport Program in Brisbane and Rockhampton, funded by the Department of Tourism, Innovation and Sport.

ELIGIBILITY INFORMATION

Life Stream Australia are the state member organisation of Sport Inclusion Australia
In Queensland, Life Stream Australia facilitates the state-wide process of assisting athletes with an intellectual disability/Autism to complete eligibility requirements (II1, II2, II3). Individuals who meet the eligibility requirements can gain eligibility/ classification for state and national school sport events, as well as state, national and international events as recognised by Sport Inclusion Australia, Virtus, Australian Paralympic Committee.

Please see guidance notes and forms at Eligibility - Sport Inclusion Australia. If you require assistance or have any questions, please contact Chantel Lewis - [email protected]

Please email completed forms to [email protected]

For more information or hints on how to complete the documentation, please check out this link: https://youtu.be/MYff1dbN_9c

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Partnerships with State Sporting Organisations

Life Stream Australia works in partnership with State Sporting Organisations to assist in the development of inclusive practice in all aspects and at all levels of sport. Partnership Agreements help to ensure that sports are on track with inclusive goals.

Partnerships focus on ensuring that state sporting organisations are committed to providing inclusive opportunities in sport, with particular reference to the inclusion of people with an intellectual disability. Life Stream Australia encourages organisations to consider inclusion in every aspect, including participation opportunities from grass roots programs through to elite competitions.

Life Stream Australia is an Associate member of The Sports Federation of Queensland (QSport), the representative body for organized, affiliated sport in Queensland.

Queensland Representative School Sport (QRSS)

The Queensland Representative School Sport program offers students with disability the opportunity to participate in an inclusive environment with their peers at a regional, state and national level.

For more information, check out Multi-class events (education.qld.gov.au)

About School Sport Queensland:
The Queensland Representative School Sport program offers students with disability the opportunity to participate in an inclusive environment with their peers at a regional, state and national level.
In the representative school sport program, multi-class events are currently provided in aquathon, cross country, swimming, and track and field. See queenslandschoolsport.education.qld.gov.au/sportsInformation/Documents/sports-offered.pdf for more information.
It is important that students with disability are included in the school sport program. It is equally important that the pathways are clearly identified for participation at the school, district and regional level.

Sport Inclusion Australia Classification

About Sport Inclusion Australia:
Sport Inclusion Australia, formerly AUSRAPID, is a national sporting organisation estabished in 1986 to assist the inclusion of people with an intellectual diability into the mainstream community using sport as a medium. Sport Inclusion Australia has worked within the Australian sporting sector without outstanding success and is proud of the increasing numbers of sporting organisations and clubs taking responsibility for inclusion with the focus on ability and based on social inclusion principles.
Sport Inclusion Australia is responsible for managing the national eligibility process for athletes wishing to compete within the intellectual impairment classification and is a Virtus Member nation and a founding member of Paralympics Australia.
sportinclusionaustralia.org.au/eligibility/

About Virtus:
Virtus World Intellectual Impairment Sport, "Virtus" is the brand name of the International Federation for athletes with intellectual impairment and is the founding member of the International Paralympic Committee.
virtus.sport/

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Awards

Life Stream Australia is proudly hosting the
Inaugural Life Stream Australia Awards
celebrating Employees, Volunteers, Sportspersons, Sports Clubs and those who have completed multiple years of service to the organisation.
Watch this space for how to nominate a Junior Sportsperson, or Sportsperson, or Inclusive Sport of the Year.

For further information on Community Sport please contact:
Chantel Lewis
Community Sport Coordinator - Brisbane
Board Member - Oceania Paralympic Committee
E: [email protected]
P: (07) 3155 7030