BRENT’S STOR AS TOLD BY BRENT’S AUNTIE, MICHELLE HOOKE, CEO OF GIRUDALA COMMUNITY COOPERATIVE SOCIETY LIMITED, BOWEN. MICHELLE SHARES BRENT’S STORY WITH THE HOPE IT WILL ENCOURAGE ALL HER MOB TO ACCESS NDIS SUPPORTS. ABOUT BRENT Brent is a proud Mitacoodi and Australian South Sea Islander man who was born with an intellectual disability. Brent is a loved and celebrated member of the Hooke family, cared for by his grandmother (Michelle’s mother) from an early age. He attended school through to Year 12 in Bowen, and was in supportive classes during high school. When Brent finished Year 12 he had a normal transition from school to support services, attending Bowen Flexi Care Disability Support Services. Brent knows he has to get up each morning and to go to work each day, just like everyone else! He knows he has to earn the money that gets put into his bank account. Brent has a very sunny and happy disposition, and everyone in the Bowen community knows and looks out for him – especially all the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders and South Sea Islanders. He rides his pushbike around town and everyone gives him
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