Building Supportive Environments

This project will involve the creation, adaptation, piloting, and evaluation of educational lifestyle modules to assist in maximising participation for young people with cerebral palsy as they navigate some of the challenges of early adulthood. The process will undergo multiple steps of co-design and will closely involve co-researchers with lived experience.

This project is a Delphi study to determine and prioritise strategies to improve participation in community based physical activity, particularly within the gym setting. The study will prioritise the ideas and opinions of young adults with cerebral palsy in conjunction with other stakeholders including parents, health care professionals and gym staff to develop recommendations for implementation.

This series of studies will evaluate the effect of exercise on adults with 'complex CP' (non-ambulant). A systematic review will help to gain insight from existing evidence, and a qualitative study will gather vital consumer and carer experiential data. The endpoint will be a mixed-method trial of exercise implementation in the community for young people with CP, who are non-ambulant, to improve well-being and participation.

This multi-stage project will include a scoping review mapping the participation experiences of young adults with cerebral palsy across important life areas, followed by a series of interviews contextualising the findings to the Australian setting.