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Navigating Disability
Welcome to the Navigating Disability Podcast Show!! Your hosts, Kate Read and Jenn Abbott are committed to changing the narrative around 'normal' and 'ability' and look so forward to sharing our weekly guests with you! Get ready to be inspired, empowered and enlivened as we dive into education, lived experiences, expert advice, behind the scenes on political movements and how YOU, our listeners can THRIVE within your community!
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Navigating Disability
The Insider Advocate: Parenting Through NDIS, Reforming from Within
How can personal experience create more effective public policy?
In this episode of Navigating Disability, we speak with Chloe Jesson, a passionate advocate for community mental health, a policy reformer, and the Deputy Chief Executive Officer of Queensland Alliance for Mental Health.
With deep experience in the not-for-profit sector, she leads initiatives that amplify the voices of lived experience and champion grassroots solutions to complex mental health challenges.
As the mum of a neurodiverse daughter navigating the NDIS, Chloe brings both professional and personal insights into the systemic barriers facing families.
Her advocacy is fuelled by her lived experience supporting her twins through early intervention and sensory supports, and her work driving sector-wide change is grounded in the belief that everyone deserves to feel connected, seen, and supported.
Chloe is also a board member of two community organisations and a postgraduate student, currently completing her Master of Public Policy and Governance. She is particularly passionate about the role of social connection as a protective factor for mental health and the urgent need to reimagine what true inclusion looks like - both in policy and in practice.
Connect with Chloe Jesson:
LinkedIn www.linkedin.com/in/chloejesson