Disability Advocacy Service Hunter Inc
Community Service in Newcastle

Combined the services had 35 years experience of advocating for people with a disability. In 19841985 the three services that have now combined to form Disability Advocacy MSW started operations to recommend for people with a disability. DA staff on the mid north coast also played a major role in establishing the Mid North Coast Community Legal center in 2011.

An recommend can bear individual advocacy and assist get impartial treatment: We also help with systematic advocacy issues and produce education sessions. Individual advocates who are professionally trained can help a person with a disability or their carer in the succeeding ways: Directly advocating on behalf of a person or providing information and advice so that a person can support for themselves (e.g. dealing with a landlord, promote when going to court, urge in dealing with the police or dealing with a legal issue by getting professional legal advice, negotiating a better deal from a government department, dealing with guardianship and financial management orders, dealing with problems at work, school, cafe or uni etc). Finding accommodation, applying for services, managing services, etc). Yield advocacy for a person when a more appropriate service is available to recommend and assist. Examples of how a Disability Recommend can aid people with a disability: Help a client to seek improved access to a building, on behalf of clients labor with local council to improve physical access to existing facilities. Help a client in refute with work place. Aid a client to raise a complaint with a day program, or assist a client to access Home Protection services. Assist a carer to get advice and support to bear for client in the coming or assist client to resist a will. The aim of this toolkit is to bear a comprehensive guide for parents and advocates in relation to the MSW education system. We hope that this toolkit will provide students with disabilities as healthy as their parents and advocates with convenient information, including self advocacy skills. A previous systemic advocacy victory story for DA was the establishment of a community legal center in a region that had destitute access to free legal assistance for people with a disability and other disadvantaged groups. Cooperative Legal Service Delivery project (LSD) ensures that key legal agencies and community groups work together to help economically and socially disadvantaged groups such as people with a disability. DA is the regional coordination agency for this project. Our service believes the Odis has immense potential to improve the access of people with a disability to services and resources. The main aim of the Education Standards is to donate students with disability the correct to participate in educational programs on the same basis as students without disability. The purpose of the Disability Info and Promote Hub is to inform, educate and empower people with a disability, parents and carers and aid to join people and share information and experience. Has the person you are referring impaired the service before: Yes No. (How would they like an recommend to help?). Disability Advocacy MSW (DA) has two crucial ways it can help people with a disability and family with the Odis: Ensure a referral to the Central Assessment Provider (a specialist legal adviser) where legal issues are highlighted for a determination as to whether legal services will be provided (for complex or novel legal cases). An example of this is a disability advocacy agency (without an Odis Appeals Officer) who may have helped a person through the Odis inside review process.