 Advocacy Partners:
Volunteer Advocates for
People with a Disability
What is Advocacy Partners
About?
Advocacy Partners is about supporting
volunteers to be long-term advocates and mentors for people with
a disability in the Hunter region of NSW. Often people with a
disability need extra help in day-to-day living to ensure that
they get a fair go.
Volunteers Advocates can help a person with a
disability (“Partner”) by: reading letters from a government
department, assisting them to negotiate with creditors if they
are in debt, help them to get a fair go at places like Centrelink, Department of Housing, private landlords, DOCS, the
electricity or phone company, negotiating a good deal if they
wish to purchase something, discuss options when making big
decisions, help to understand an individual planning meeting at
a group home, help to complain about unfair treatment , or by
just being a friendly person they can rely on. Who can get Volunteer
Advocacy assistance?
Who can get Volunteer
Advocacy assistance?
 The program
focuses on people with a cognitive disability who are often the
most vulnerable in the community. People with intellectual
disability are the main users of the program, but we also assist
people with a brain injury and metal illness. To refer a person
with a disability to the program obtain a referral/application
form from DA or download it from our web site.
PDF Version (requires
Adobe Acrobat Reader) or
MS Word Document
Who are the Volunteer Advocates?
Volunteer
Advocates are just regular community members who are carefully
selected, trained and supported by Advocacy Partner’s staff.
Many volunteers have some disability experience or may have a
family member with a disability, while others are just
interested in working in a new area. To apply to be a Volunteer
Advocate obtain an application form from DA or download it from
our web site.
PDF
Version. (requires
Adobe Acrobat Reader) or
MS Word Document
To find out more:
Feel free to
contact Cathy Broderick (ap@da.org.au)
or Mark Grierson (newcastle@da.org.au)
at DA
(49 270111) to find out more. |
