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Our Direct Employ service is unique for a number of reasons, but did you know that our Partners &#8211; who we refer to as our clients, have a dedicated Partner Experience (PX) Specialist to manage their account?
Meet Elinor, Sam, Steven, Jonathan, Gemma and Jeremy – our awesome Partner Experience team.
Having this great team of humans means that every time you pick up the phone, or each time you send an email, you’ll be able to connect with the same person, ensuring a highly personalised service and an ever-important continuity of care.
They’re a pretty friendly bunch and we&#8217;re pretty sure you&#8217;ll love them just as much as we do.

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Steve Bear

The first-of-its-kind social platform aims to facilitate meaningful friendships by connecting people with disability with like-minded people who share similar life experiences, interests and hobbies.
<a href="http://www.alvie.com.au">Alvie</a> is designed to be used by anyone over the age of five, and matches people with common interests, making it much easier to connect with others. Maybe you’re a footy fan who wants someone to join you on the sidelines every week. Alvie can help connect you with a potential footy friend.
Alvie was founded by CEO Steve Bear, who spent many years running overnight camps for children with disabilities, seeing first-hand how difficult it can be for children with disabilities to find friends who they can relate to.
&#8220;From my experience of working with many children with all kinds of disabilities, I understand that loneliness and isolation is one of the biggest challenges these kids face on a day-to-day and can lead to lack of personal and social development, as well as an increased risk of mental illness.”
Steve explains how the app connects members by age, location, interests and hobbies so you can make more meaningful connections, one match at a time.
<blockquote>“Building Alvie was an opportunity to give people with disabilities at any age, a safe space created specifically for them, where they can feel comfortable, accepted for who they are and experience more social interactions that will hopefully form into meaningful friendships.”</blockquote>
If you want to give Alvie a try, the good news is that it is free for the first three months as the Alvie team build their community (no credit card or banking details required). If you sign up during this free period, you will receive 50 percent off your membership for life!
To learn more about Alvie, or to sign up for the free trial go to <a href="http://www.alvie.com.au">www.alvie.com.au</a>

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Alvie website

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Craig Bridge, Head of Business

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Jo Page and Wendy

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Accessible Beaches

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Accessible Beach

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All Abilities AO

The Australian Open (AO) tennis tournament, which has been running for 117 years, will host the first-ever All Abilities Day on Tuesday 24 January 2023. The day aims to celebrate and provide opportunities for everyone to experience and enjoy this popular international event.
The All Abilities day will focus on recognising the many inclusive formats of tennis, and invite people who have vision, hearing, physical, sensory and or intellectual disabilities to enjoy all that the Australian Open has to offer in a safe and inclusive environment.
“It’s bloody awesome, the first Grand Slam to do this … disability is often the category that is left out, so to have an All-Abilities Day is pretty special,” said Grand Slam champion Dylan Alcott.
<blockquote>“Twenty percent of the Australian population have some form of disability, physical or non-physical, and they love tennis, and they deserve the opportunity to come, watch and play,&#8221; he explained.</blockquote>
Coinciding with the start of the AO wheelchair tennis competition, All Abilities Day will include on-court opportunities for kids and adults from Tennis Australia’s disability pathways. These include intellectual disability, Down syndrome, neurodiverse, deaf or hard of hearing, blind or low vision, and people with physical disabilities.
Australian Open 2023 will also host the first-ever international persons with intellectual disability and deaf and hard of hearing tournaments – to be played from 27-29 January at Melbourne Park.
“Tennis is an incredibly inclusive sport and making it accessible to people of all abilities is a vital part of the work we do year-round,” AO Tournament Director Craig Tiley said.
<h4>Some of the awesome accessibility initiatives at Australian Open 2023 include:</h4>
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<li><a href="https://bindimaps.com/">BindiMaps</a> providing wayfinding beacons highlighting key locations around the Melbourne Park precinct for people who are blind or vision impaired</li>
<li>Action Audio gives millions of vision-impaired people the opportunity to experience matches in real time though <a href="https://ausopen.com/listen">AO Radio</a>, using Tennis Australia’s real-time ball position data to make the speed, trajectory and placement of tennis balls audible.</li>
<li>Yarra Trams, in partnership with <a href="https://www.travellersaid.org.au/">Traveller’s Aid Australia</a>, supports passengers with a disability to travel to the AO by tram, providing trained staff to assist with transiting onto Yarra Tram services to and from Melbourne Park</li>
<li>Dedicated customer experience workforce specially trained to support the inclusion of all patrons</li>
<li>Sensory and calm spaces</li>
<li>Guide dog relief areas</li>
<li><a href="https://ausopen.com/access-inclusion">Accessibility page </a>and <a href="https://www.tennis.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/EO-22-040-Accessibility-Map_A4_v15-2.pdf">maps</a> on <a href="http://ausopen.com">AusOpen.com</a></li>
<li>First international persons with intellectual disability tournament</li>
<li>First international deaf and hard of hearing tournament</li>
<li>Expanded wheelchair tennis draws</li>
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We love our tennis here at Carer Solutions, and we think that Tennis Australia has totally aced this year’s event, ensuring that the Australian Open is well and truly #Open4All.
If you would like to learn more about all abilities tennis, <a href="https://www.tennis.com.au/play/inclusion-and-diversity">visit the Tennis Australia website</a> or email <a href="mailto:inclusion@tennis.com.au">inclusion@tennis.com.au</a>.

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