Working with Self Advocacy Groups
This resource is a guide for organisations who want to work well with self advocacy groups. It was written in 2019. It talks about: What are self advocacy groups? What are self advocacy groups? What sort of work do self advocacy groups do? Who supports self advocacy groups? How does working with self advocacy groups […]
The Self Advocacy Group Risk Kit
How to work with risk and make your group stronger. This kit has been made to help self advocacy groups work with risk.
Tips for running projects
This resource was made in 2019 to help self advocacy groups run a project. Tip1 Make a working groupTip 2 Make a planTip 3 RiskTip 4 Follow your planTip 5 TeamworkTip 6 Ask for helpTip 7 Don’t give upTip 8 Share your work with othersTip 9 EvaluateTip 10 Celebrate your achievements
10 Top Tips about How to Include People with Cognitive Disability in Meetings – Easy English Book
This Easy English book gives people with a cognitive disability 10 tips on how they should be included in meetings. Examples of a cognitive disability are: 1. Intellectual Disability or 2. Acquired Brain Injury. Contact SARU for a copy of this book with clearer pictures.
10 Top Tips about How to Include People with Cognitive Disability in Meetings – Plain English
This book gives organisations and people 10 tips about how to include people with a cognitive disability in meetings. Examples of Cognitive Disability are 1. Intellectual Disability or 2. Acquired Brain Injury. Contact SARU for a copy of this book with clearer pictures.
Key Issues for Self Advocacy Support Workers
Read this to see 5 key issues that Self Advocacy Support Workers can face.
8 Questions for Self Advocacy Support Workers
Read this to see 8 Questions Self Advocacy Support Workers should regularly ask themselves.
Voice At The Table’s Website
The Voice At The Table Project’s aim is for people with an intellectual disability and acquired brain injury to be included in leadership roles like in: boards, committees, advisory groups and meetings. Voice At The Table does training for both organisations and people with an intellectual disability and acquired injury. Click below to go to […]
The Good Groups Toolkit
Read this toolkit to learn things your Self Advocacy Group can do to make your group run well, or do good ‘Governance’. Governance is how a group make or follow rules to work together fairly and get things done.
How to Plan and Do Self Advocacy Work – Action Research Circle Poster
The Action Research Circle is an idea about how to do good work. The 1st step is make a plan and 2nd step is to do the work you planned to do or ‘act’. The 3rd step is to look at the work you’ve done and the 4th is to think about the work you […]
