Enabling Good Lives
Enabling Good Lives Approach
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EGL is a new approach to supporting disabled people.
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Through Enabling Good Lives, disabled people and their whanau can choose to increase the choice and control they have in their lives and supports.
Enabling Good Lives Definition
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Leaders in the disability community developed the Enabling Good Lives (EGL) approach with the intent of shifting power and authority from government to disabled people and their families.
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EGL is a social movement in response to the oppression of disabled people.
What is Enabling Good Lives (EGL)
Enabling Good Lives (EGL) is a new approach to supporting disabled people in Aotearoa NZ, that offers greater choice and control over the supports they receive, so that they can plan for the lives they want.
The EGL approach is a foundation and framework to guide positive change for disabled people, families, communities and governance structures. The vision and eight principles are based on respect towards disabled people and their families culminating in trusting disabled people and their families to be decision-makers in their own lives.
Though the flexible funding-mechanism hasn't yet rolled out nation-wide, families are encouraged to use Individualised funding to plan a good life for your child, based on the basic EGL principles:
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Self-determination
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Beginning early
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Person-centred
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Ordinary life outcomes
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Mainstream first
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Mana enhancing
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Easy to use
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Relationship building