Keeping Families Together
Watch this to listen to Positive Powerful Parents members talk about supports needed for parents with an intelectual disability.
What is an Institution?
Watch this to hear Self Advocates with disability explain what an institution is and why they are a problem. Self Advocates say people should respect people with disability’s human rights.
Self Advocates Work with Local Government
Watch this to hear Peter Whelan talk about work Self Advocacy Groups did with Melbourne’s local council to help make Melbourne more accessible for people with disability.
Colin Hiscoe’s Life Story
Read this to hear the life story of Colin Hiscoe AM, a self advocate with intellectual disability that has been Reinforce Self Advocacy’s President. Reinforce Self Advocacy is Australia’s oldest Self Advocacy Organisation run by and for people with intellectual disability.
Self Advocacy and Diversity – A Model for Multicultural Inclusion
Read this to learn about a project that looked to understand ways of supporting the growth of Self Advocacy for Multicultural People with Disability in Broad Meadows and Shepparton (Victoria).
Reinforce – Speaking Up Over the Years
This book is about the history of Reinforce Self Advocacy, the oldest Self Advocacy Organisation run by and for people with intellectual disability in Australia. In this book you will learn about the work Reinforce has done, and about Self Advocacy.
Aunty Robyn Lennox’s Art Story
Aunty Robyn Lennox is a First Nations artist with disability. Look at this to hear what opportunities her art has given her and to see her artwork ‘Family Blood Lines’.
