Disability Support Advisory Committee

Membership:

• Peta Karalus (Chair)
• Jack Havill (Deputy Chair)
• Sally Christie (ex officio)
• Ted Armstrong
• Glenda Raumati
• Suresh Vatsyayann
• Mr D Slone
  
• John McIntosh
• Ms J Eketone
  

Aims:

• advise the Board on the disability support needs of the Waikato DHB’s resident population
  
  
• advocate for people with disabilities
  
  
• advise the Board on the kinds of disability support services that the Waikato DHB has provided or funded, or could provide or fund, to promote the inclusion and participation in society, and to maximise the independence, of the people with disabilities within Waikato DHB’s resident population
  
  
• advise the Board on policies it has adopted, or could adopt.
  _{The advice must reflect the aims and objectives of the New Zealand Disability Strategy}