Transcript National Disability Advocacy Program Conference: Overview

National Disability Advocacy
Conference:
Overview of South Australian
NDAP funded Advocacy
South Australia’s NDAP Programmes Offer:
Individual Advocacy
Family Advocacy
Systemic Advocacy
Citizen Advocacy
Self Advocacy
Advocacy Training and Support
Disability Advocacy and Complaints
Service of South Australia Inc.
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Individual Advocacy, including an advocacy visiting service
for people living in institutions and supported
accommodation
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Systemic Advocacy,
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Self Advocacy, and
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Advocacy Training and Support,
to all people with disabilities, including people with mental health
issues.
Open five days per week, responds to requests from all over SA
through 1800 phone service.
Branch Office in Whyalla, open 5 days per week
Visiting service in Victor Harbour one day per week
Visiting service planned in Murray Bridge and Mount Barker
MoU with Indigenous Disability Advocacy Network in SA for
outreach to APY Lands
Family Advocacy Inc.
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Individual Advocacy,
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Systemic Advocacy,
for families of people who have disabilities
Operates 5 days per week, 9 AM – 4PM.
Central Office in Bowden
Regional Offices in the
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Northern Suburbs: Modbury
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Southern Suburbs: Woodcroft
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Mid/Far North: Clare
Regular visiting service to Kangaroo Island, Port Lincoln,
Murray Bridge, Mount Gambier/South East
Family Advocacy has lost all State funding in the
June 2007 Budget and will have to cut
services.
MALSSA Inc.
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Individual Advocacy, including an advocacy visiting
service for people living in institutions
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Systemic Advocacy,
for people with disabilities, their family members and carers and
all disability types.
Adelaide Office focus on people from a CALD background,
where resources permit it is available to all people with
disabilities
Operates 5 days per week in Adelaide.
Regional Offices in the
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Riverland: Berri (generic service)
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South East: Mount Gambier (generic service)
Independent Advocacy SA Inc.
Individual Advocacy
primarily advocates for individuals with intellectual disability or
who are labelled or treated as having an intellectual disability,
responds to situations of extreme vulnerability and complexity,
might include individuals whose lives are marked by similar
characteristics but not labelled as having an intellectual disability,
protective style and best interests driven social advocacy, values
based, relationship based, guided by clear vision for whole of
person’s life, medium to long term
Strategic Advice
to allies (including family members), other advocates, service
workers
Adelaide Office
operating throughout the Adelaide metropolitan area,
responds state wide where possible, travel to where advocacy
needs to be conducted, freecall number, responds out of hours to
current advocacy efforts
Citizen Advocacy
South Australia Inc.
Promotes, protects and defends the personal welfare and
interests of people with intellectual disability by facilitating and
supporting freely-given, one-to-one advocacy relationships
between a vulnerable person with intellectual disability (the
Protégé), who has pressing needs in one or more important life
areas, and a suitable, responsible citizen (the Citizen Advocate)
who is free from conflict of interest, who agrees to meet some
of the Protégé’s practical and/or emotional needs. Some
commitments may last for life.
• Adelaide office
• Operates throughout the Adelaide metropolitan area
• Primary disability type is intellectual however, people may
also have other disabilities.
• Operates 5 days a week / support offered 24/7
Brain Injury Network
South Australia Inc.
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Individual Advocacy - Statewide
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Systemic Advocacy
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Training and support for self Advocacy
Primarily for adults and children with acquired brain
injury and their families.
Operates 5 days per week.
A 1300 number and a website provides access for
country clients.
BINSA has just lost all of their State funding for
information and advocacy and only receives a small
amount from the NDAP program.
Other Advocacy Organisations
in South Australia
Recently all State funded Advocacy and Information
Services have been defunded.
There are other advocacy groups in South Australia not
funded under the NDAP
The community sector has lost $750 000.
Geographical
Coverage
Yellow dots:
Visiting Services
Red dots:
Organisations’
Offices
The Indigenous
Advocacy Network
works in
partnership with the
Disability Advocacy
and Complaints
Service of SA Inc.
Nature of Networking
SA’s advocacy organisations are meeting
regularly to discuss issues and emerging
trends, and to identify issues to be taken up by
a systemic advocacy program.
Individual organisations partake in other networks
as well, such as the activities of the Social
Inclusion Board, or the Consumer Advisory
networks.
Sadly, there is not much contact with a national
network, aside from participation in some
specialised national networks such as NCID or
the AFDO.
Key Issues
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Unmet Demand
Unmet Demand
Unmet Demand
Consumer Participation in
decision making processes;
• Discrimination (employment,
education)
• Lack of psycho-social services
Thank You for Listening!