What are Advocacy and Information Services?
Information services provide information and knowledge to people with a disability that can help them to participate in the community and to make choices about the services they receive.
Advocacy services helps people with a disability to participate in community life and to get their rights. Some people with a disability are able to speak up for themselves, others get help from their family and friends and some go to advocacy organisations that help people with a disability get their rights and have their voices heard.
Where can I find an Advocacy or Information Service?
The Department of Ageing, Disability and Home Care (DADHC) supports advocacy and information organisations to provide free services to people with a disability, their families and carers.
For a directory of the organisations that DADHC funds for advocacy and information services, please click on the following link.
DADHC Disability Advocacy and Information Services Directory (updated May 2008)
DISABILITY ADVOCACY AND INFORMATION REFORM – ISSUES PAPER
The Department would like to thank the public for providing comment on the Issues Paper for disability advocacy and specialised information services and consumer peak bodies in NSW. The Department received a total 69 written submissions. All public comment will be considered in the development of a NSW State Plan for disability advocacy and specialised information services and consumer peak bodies.
Summary of Outcomes for Disability Advocacy and Information Services and Consumer Peak Bodies - 2005 Consultation Report