Secondary-level practitioners face mounting challenges in providing effective transition services to youth with disabilities living in high-poverty neighborhoods. We examined the summer activities of youth with high-incidence disabilities from high-poverty backgrounds who had taken vocational classes and participated in a self-determination curriculum during the previous school year. Few of the students were employed by the midpoint of summer, with the majority reporting difficulties related to finding a job. Students who were not employed were involved in a variety of activities (e.g., "hanging out" with friends or family, doing occasional odd jobs, caring for a child), but few reported satisfaction with these activities. Findings are discussed and recommendations are suggested for improving the effectiveness of secondary-level educational programming.

Measures should ensure that GPs have accurate knowledge of legislation concerning older drivers; appropriate tests of driving-related cognitive abilities are available; and transport and support options for those older individuals who are no longer fit to drive are considered.

This study investigated organisational factors impacting disability support worker (DSW) psychosocial wellbeing and work safety to understand the relationship between wellbeing, using measures of burnout and job satisfaction, and work conditions and safety performance. This study also investigated factors predicting wellbeing using the Job Demand-Control-Support (JDCS) model. A sample of 87 DSWs completed normed measures of burnout, work conditions, and safety climate. Results showed DSWs experienced significantly higher personal and work-related burnout but significantly lower client-related burnout. Although the JDCS model components did not all predict any single wellbeing measure, they each predicted aspects of burnout and job satisfaction, with these wellbeing measures associated with safety performance. Findings highlighted the importance of monitoring worker job demands, support availability, and job control to improve safety performance. Compared to normative data, DSWs were experiencing significantly higher role conflict, the negative impact of which was effectively moderated by support for personal and work-related burnout and job satisfaction. Findings suggest the need to consider DSW work conditions, and particularly work practices contributing to role conflict, as well as increasing support for DSWs to prevent the development of personal and work-related burnout. Findings suggest further research associated with client-related burnout is required.

Objective: To investigate factors affecting the functioning of resident committees in South Australian low-level residential aged care facilities (RACFs). Methods: Observation of two consecutive resident committee meetings in 18 low-level RACFs. Results: Most meetings were informal. Only one-third had an agenda, and although all had minutes, only half provided them to residents. Most meetings were scheduled monthly, but because of postponements, meetings were held on average every 7 weeks. Many meeting rooms did not allow residents to see and hear comfortably. Most chairpersons were staff and only one chairperson had formal training in conducting meetings. Only 21% of first meeting topics, which mostly focused on resident complaints, resulted in solutions at the second meeting. Resident dissatisfaction was evident with meeting environments, procedures and outcomes. Conclusion: There is considerable scope for improving a number of environmental and procedural factors affecting the functioning of resident committees.

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