AI Development Initiative for disability support services
Lead organisation:
My Life My Voice Charitable Trust
In its first year, My Life My Voice has moved the AI for People initiative from foundation-building into active delivery. The team has engaged more than 25 organisations across the disability, social service and public sectors, formally established their Pou Tikanga cultural rōpū, and officially launched their public resource hub, now populated with training videos, policy templates and alternate-format materials including New Zealand Sign Language (NZSL) and Easy Read. You can read the full case study on year one, or explore AI for People directly.
Increasing the uptake of AI by the disability support workforce to benefit the efficiency and quality of services it provides is the focus of this two-year project by My Life My Voice Charitable Trust.
As part of this project, My Life My Voice is working with a range of pan disability groups and representatives of disabled communities to co-design publicly available resources and education material to build the workforce's use of AI.
The comprehensive AI Resources include: AI competency frameworks; employer training modules; industry implementation strategies; AI user guides; policy templates for ethical AI use; e-learning modules; plain-language instructions; step-by-step visual aids; and digital literacy supports that improve confidence in using everyday tools (e.g. tablets, spreadsheets).
The team continues to provide implementation support and work to foster the sector's long-term engagement with AI technologies to drive innovation and inclusion. They'll also share project learnings to increase the positive impact of this work to a wider audience.
Read the case study AI For People: Grounding AI Adoption in Wellbeing and Te Ao Māori for Aotearoa's Disability Sector here.