Authors and contributors

Introduction

Moving Out has been created by Flying Kites, with ideas and voices from the disability community in Aotearoa New Zealand.  

Flying Kites is a New Zealand-based charity, established in 2021, with the vision to reimagine what is possible by designing disability supports differently. This small organisation focuses on providing tailored disability supports through personalised services, including:

• Goal planning and navigation – helping people plan for their futures, get the supports that they need, and maintain momentum towards achieving their goals.

• Customised staff recruitment – helping to identify and recruit people who match an individual's interests, values and the role that they need help with; taking the stress out of finding people who they genuinely connect with.  

The core contributors to the resource are the Flying Kites operational team (each with over 15 years of professional experience in disability supports and lived experience with disabled whānau), in partnership with the Flying Kites advisory team.  

The Flying Kites advisory team are a diverse group of individuals with personal and family experience of disability. This team are paid to provide operational and strategic advice across all Flying Kites' activities and were involved in Moving Out from the initial concept stages through to completion.

Funding for this project was generously provided by the IHC Foundation.

The production of Moving Out was greatly supported by Good Talk in the form of editing and content management. The website and design were created by Frontier Studio.