Positive Powerful Parents (PPP) is an Australian self advocacy group run by and for parents with an intellectual disability. PPP started because of the numbers of parents with an intellectual disability who do not get the support they need to keep their children. PPP are currently running the Hand In Hand project. Hand In Hand seeks to educate government and the community about the needs of families where a parent has an intellectual disability. This report describes the activities of the Hand In Hand Parent Meeting in Melbourne on the 19th of September 2018.
Most of these participants were parents (mainly mothers, but also fathers) with intellectual disability, and the rest were advocacy workers or other support workers. The participants discussed the support services that have helped them as parents, if they felt they'd "proven anyone wrong" about their parenting, the changes they would like to see, the strengths of being a parent with an intellectual disability, and the helpfulness of peer support for parents with disabilities.
