OVERVIEW OF ALLPLAY FOOTY
AllPlay Footy is a joint initiative between Monash University and the AFL. It was founded at Deakin University in 2015 and has been part of Monash Education since 2021.
When the AllPlay AFL partnership started back in 2015, we had an ambitious goal to ensure that everyone can play on an even field, regardless of their ability level. Since then we have worked tirelessly together in partnership with the community to achieve this vision.
I am delighted to now share with you practical tools and resources to support the 1 in 6 children who experience developmental challenge or disability and their families.
We have learnt so much about disability inclusion in the last decade, but the single most important learning is that 'making the world fit for all people' is an easy recipe to follow - look to a person's strengths, create a shared understanding of what it means to have a disability and wrap around the best research evidence so that everyone can play together. Simple.
AllPlay Footy is a joint initiative by Monash University and the AFL. AllPlay Footy was founded at Deakin University in 2015 and has been part of Monash Education since 2021. The AllPlay Footy content and resources presented here have been developed with people with lived experience of disability, consultants from National Sporting Organisations for People with Disability, psychologists and researchers, and are brought to you with funding from a Department of Social Services Information, Linkages and Capacity Building: Social and Community Participation Stream (2020-2024) grant. We aim to use language that is respectful to everyone.