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What is a Self Advocacy Resource?
Self Advocacy Resources are things like videos, posters or books.
- About Self Advocacy
- Made for Self Advocates or Self Advocacy Groups
- Made by Self Advocates (for the community or other Self Advocates)
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Topic: Self Advocacy Tips
Read this for tips on how your Self Advocacy Group can work with Government.
Working with Government is 1 way your Self Advocacy Group can make change happen.
How to Work with Government
Read this for tips on how your Self Advocacy Group can work with Government.
Working with Government is 1 way your Self Advocacy Group can make change happen.
- Mady by: The Self Advocacy Resource Unit (SARU)
Read this for tips on how to deal with conflict in meetings.
Conflict is when people have a fight or big disagreement.
How to Deal with Conflict in Meetings
Read this for tips on how to deal with conflict in meetings.
Conflict is when people have a fight or big disagreement.
- Mady by: The Self Advocacy Resource Unit (SARU)
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.
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.
- Mady by: Voice At The Table Project - The Self Advocacy Resource Unit (SARU)
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 – 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.
- Mady by: Voice At The Table Project - The Self Advocacy Resource Unit (SARU)
Watch this video to hear Self Advocates share stories about being safe online.
Self Advocates Talk About Online Safety
Watch this video to hear Self Advocates share stories about being safe online.
- Mady by: Self Advocates with help from the Self Advocacy Resource Unit (SARU)
Information about violence against people with disability.
Includes help line numbers.
2025 VSAN Campaign – Disability is not a target
Information about violence against people with disability.
Includes help line numbers.
- Mady by: Victorian Self Advocacy Network (VSAN)
This resource was made in 2019 to help self advocacy groups run a project.
Tip1 Make a working group
Tip 2 Make a plan
Tip 3 Risk
Tip 4 Follow your plan
Tip 5 Teamwork
Tip 6 Ask for help
Tip 7 Don’t give up
Tip 8 Share your work with others
Tip 9 Evaluate
Tip 10 Celebrate your achievements
Tips for running projects
This resource was made in 2019 to help self advocacy groups run a project.
Tip1 Make a working group
Tip 2 Make a plan
Tip 3 Risk
Tip 4 Follow your plan
Tip 5 Teamwork
Tip 6 Ask for help
Tip 7 Don’t give up
Tip 8 Share your work with others
Tip 9 Evaluate
Tip 10 Celebrate your achievements
- Mady by: Self Advocacy Resource Unit (SARU)
How to work with risk and make your group stronger.
This kit has been made to help self advocacy groups work with risk.
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.
- Mady by: Self Advocacy Resource Unit (SARU)
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 benefit other organisations?
How can organisations support the work of self advocacy groups?
How can organisation work well with self advocacy groups?
Tips from self advocacy groups
Where can organisations go for information, help, training and resources?
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 benefit other organisations?
How can organisations support the work of self advocacy groups?
How can organisation work well with self advocacy groups?
Tips from self advocacy groups
Where can organisations go for information, help, training and resources?
- Mady by: Self Advocacy Resource Unit (SARU)
Watch this video to learn about Self Advocacy and Self Advocacy Groups.
What is Self Advocacy? Video
Watch this video to learn about Self Advocacy and Self Advocacy Groups.
- Mady by: Self Advocates, Self Advocacy Resource Unit (SARU) and Self Advocacy For Everyone (SAFE) Project
Read this to see 5 key issues that Self Advocacy Support Workers can face.
Key Issues for Self Advocacy Support Workers
Read this to see 5 key issues that Self Advocacy Support Workers can face.
- Mady by: The Self Advocacy Resource Unit (SARU)
Read this to see 8 Questions Self Advocacy Support Workers should regularly ask themselves.
8 Questions for Self Advocacy Support Workers
Read this to see 8 Questions Self Advocacy Support Workers should regularly ask themselves.
- Mady by: The Self Advocacy Resource Unit (SARU)
This Lobbying Toolkit will help you to learn how to speak up, and how to tell people who make decisions about issues that are important to people with disability.
The Lobbying Toolkit
This Lobbying Toolkit will help you to learn how to speak up, and how to tell people who make decisions about issues that are important to people with disability.
- Mady by: The Self Advocacy Resource Unit (SARU)
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 Voice At The Table’s Website.
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 Voice At The Table’s Website.
- Mady by: Voice At The Table - The Self Advocacy Resource Unit (SARU)
Sister Rocks is a Self Advocacy Group run by people with disability in the Grampians, Victoria.
Click below to learn more.
About Sister Rocks
Sister Rocks is a Self Advocacy Group run by people with disability in the Grampians, Victoria.
Click below to learn more.
VALID has 3 Self Advocacy Networks for people with intellectual disability in the North, East and West suburbs of Melbourne.
VALID stands for the Victorian Advocacy League for Intellectual Disability.
Click below to learn more.
About VALID’s Self Advocacy Networks
VALID has 3 Self Advocacy Networks for people with intellectual disability in the North, East and West suburbs of Melbourne.
VALID stands for the Victorian Advocacy League for Intellectual Disability.
Click below to learn more.
Speak Up Alexandra is a Self Advocacy Group run by and for people with intellectual disability in Alexandra, Victoria.
Click below to learn more.
About Speak Up Alexandra
Speak Up Alexandra is a Self Advocacy Group run by and for people with intellectual disability in Alexandra, Victoria.
Click below to learn more.
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.
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.
- Mady by: The Self Advocacy Resource Unit (SARU)
People Power Seymour is a Self Advocacy Group for people with disability in Mitchel Shire, Victoria.
Click below to learn more.
About People Power Seymour
People Power Seymour is a Self Advocacy Group for people with disability in Mitchel Shire, Victoria.
Click below to learn more.
Read this for tips on how your self advocacy group can run a good meeting.
How to Run Good Meetings
Read this for tips on how your self advocacy group can run a good meeting.
- Mady by: The Self Advocacy Resource Unit (SARU)
All Abilities Advocacy is a Self Advocacy Group in South West Victoria.
This Self Advocacy Group is run by and for people with intellectual disability, physical disability, acquired brain injury and complex communication needs.
Click below to learn more.
About All Abilities Advocacy
All Abilities Advocacy is a Self Advocacy Group in South West Victoria.
This Self Advocacy Group is run by and for people with intellectual disability, physical disability, acquired brain injury and complex communication needs.
Click below to learn more.
This is Jeanette Lee’s Story, who has been very involved in Victoria’s Disability Rights movement.
Jeanette Lee’s Story – Barreir Buster
This is Jeanette Lee’s Story, who has been very involved in Victoria’s Disability Rights movement.
- Mady by: The Self Advocacy Resource Unit (SARU)
Have a Say Bendigo is a Self Advocacy Group run by and for people with intellectual disability in Bendigo, Victoria.
Click below to learn more.
About Have a Say Bendigo
Have a Say Bendigo is a Self Advocacy Group run by and for people with intellectual disability in Bendigo, Victoria.
Click below to learn more.
Self Advocacy Sydney is an organisation run by and for people with intellectual disability.
Click below to learn more.
About Self Advocacy Sydney
Self Advocacy Sydney is an organisation run by and for people with intellectual disability.
Click below to learn more.
Self Advocacy WA (SAWA) is a self advocacy peer support group run by and for people with disabilities in Western Australia.
Click below to learn more.
About Self Advocacy Western Australia (SAWA)
Self Advocacy WA (SAWA) is a self advocacy peer support group run by and for people with disabilities in Western Australia.
Click below to learn more.
Speak Out Self Advocacy is run by and for people with learning or communication disabilities in Tasmania.
Click below to learn more.
About Speak Out Self Advocacy Tasmania
Speak Out Self Advocacy is run by and for people with learning or communication disabilities in Tasmania.
Click below to learn more.
Our Voice South Australia is a self advocacy and peer support group run by adults with intellectual disability.
Click below to learn more.
About Our Voice South Australia
Our Voice South Australia is a self advocacy and peer support group run by adults with intellectual disability.
Click below to learn more.
Loud and Clear Queensland is a Self Advocacy and friendship for people with intellectual disability supported by Parent 2 Parent QLD.
Click below to learn more.
About Loud and Clear Queensland
Loud and Clear Queensland is a Self Advocacy and friendship for people with intellectual disability supported by Parent 2 Parent QLD.
Click below to learn more.
Gold Coast Hot Topics is a Self Advocacy Group run by and for people with intellectual disability in the Gold Coast, Queensland.
Click below to learn more.
About Gold Coast Hot Topics
Gold Coast Hot Topics is a Self Advocacy Group run by and for people with intellectual disability in the Gold Coast, Queensland.
Click below to learn more.
Watch this to hear Romeo Brasington talk about what Self Advocacy means to them.
Romeo worked for Voice At The Table, a project that aims for people with intellectual disability and acquired brain injury to be included in leadership roles.
What Self Advocacy Means to Romeo Brasington
Watch this to hear Romeo Brasington talk about what Self Advocacy means to them.
Romeo worked for Voice At The Table, a project that aims for people with intellectual disability and acquired brain injury to be included in leadership roles.
- Mady by: Voice At The Table - The Self Advocacy Resource Unit (SARU)
Brisbane Hot Topics is a Self Advocacy Group run by and for people with intellectual disability in Brisbane.
Click below to learn more.
About Brisbane Hot Topics
Brisbane Hot Topics is a Self Advocacy Group run by and for people with intellectual disability in Brisbane.
Click below to learn more.
Read this for tips on how to make a Self Advocacy Scrapbook.
How to Make a Self Advocacy Scrapbook
Read this for tips on how to make a Self Advocacy Scrapbook.
- Mady by: The Self Advocacy Resource Unit (SARU)
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 did.
Then you plan more work and keep going through the steps in the circle again!
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 did.
Then you plan more work and keep going through the steps in the circle again!
- Mady by: The Self Advocacy Resource Unit (SARU)
