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Disability Advocacy Groups

Advocacy is speaking, acting or writing with minimal conflict of interest on behalf of the interests of a disadvantaged person or group, in order to promote, protect and defend the welfare of and justice for either the person or group

Types of Advocacy

Citizen Advocacy

Matching people with disability with volunteers.

Family Advocacy

Helps parents and family members advocate on behalf of the person with disability for a particular issue.

Individual Advocacy

Upholds the rights of individual people with disability by working on discrimination, abuse and neglect.

Legal Advocacy

Upholds the rights and interests of individual people with disability by addressing the legal aspects of discrimination, abuse and neglect.

Self Advocacy

Supports people with disability to advocate for themselves, or as a group.

Systematic Advocacy

Seeks to remove barriers and address discrimination to ensure the rights of people with disability.

Australian Capital Territory (ACT)

Northern Territory

New South Wales

(NSW)

Queensland

South Australia

Tasmania

Victoria

Western Australia

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