Speak Out October 2016

Association news

Towards 2030 and beyond

go to everyone who has participated in this landmark project – the clients, the “thought leaders”, the key stakeholders, and over 1000 speech pathologists. If you were unable to attend the launch or view it live on the Internet, you can still watch it on the Association’s YouTube channel. An electronic version of the Speech Pathology 2030 project report is available from the Association’s website, while a hard copy of the report is available by contacting the Association. On 15 October, the Association’s Board of Directors, its chief executive officer, senior managers, Branch chairs and other key stakeholders, will meet to commence the process of drawing up the organisation’s new strategic plan for 2017–2020. The Speech Pathology 2030 project report is the bedrock on which this strategic plan will be based. It is also the roadmap that will point in the right direction for the journey ahead. As I said at the launch, “let’s get started because the future waits for no-one.”

The final report of the Speech Pathology 2030 project has now been formally launched. On 11 August at a ceremony at the National Gallery of Victoria, Alastair McEwin, the new Federal Disability Discrimination Commissioner, as keynote speaker, officially launched the report and outlined the important role speech pathologists will continue to have well into the future. In responding to commissioner McEwin, I outlined in my speech how the launch of this report, while marking the end of the Speech Pathology 2030 project, is the beginning of a new journey of discovery, a journey to 2030 and beyond. At the beginning of the Speech Pathology 2030 project I spoke about how we were going through a process to develop something similar to an Aboriginal star map, a series of waypoints that would guide us to our destination. The future, 2030, is such a waypoint! A point where we will again reflect on where we have come from and where we are heading; and a point where we must ensure that the profession is future- ready for the world beyond 2030. Throughout the project, everyone involved has also been identifying waypoints. Those vital markers will point the way forward to and beyond 2030. Thanks must

Gaenor Dixon National President

making futures happen A landmarkproject for theprofession Speech Pathology 2030

SpeechPathology 2030 -making futureshappen

9

Members of the Speech Pathology 2030 Steering Committee are SPA Staff Representative Trish Johnson, CEO Gail Mulcair, SPA Staff Representative Michael Kerrisk, Gretchen Young from Young Futures, SPA Director Chyrisse Heine, Project Lead Christine Lyons, SPA Director Robyn Stephen and SPA National President Gaenor Dixon with (centre) Federal Disability Discrimination Commissioner Alastair McEwin.

5

October 2016 www.speechpathologyaustralia.org.au

Speak Out