Individual Advocacy
Are you a disabled person in Victoria looking for help with inidividual advocacy?
Your rights.
Your voice.
Our support.
At Disability Rights and Culture (DRC), we provide free, confidential and independent individual advocacy for all adults with disabilities in Victoria, Australia.
Whether you’re having problems with services or systems like the NDIS or DSP, or need help making sure your rights are upheld and your voice is heard, we’re here to help and support you.
If you’re looking for services outside of Victoria, we can also help you with information and connect you to the right services for your needs.
How we can help with individual advocacy:
Our team of individual disability advocates are highly experienced across a range of issues that impact the disabled community. Many of our advocates are disabled themselves, so they know exactly what it’s like to deal with systems that weren’t build for us. And that’s why we’re here to support you with disability rights challenges you might be facing.
We can help with things like:
- Accomodation, including Supported Independent Living (SIL), Specialist Disability Accomodation (SDA) and public housing applications
- Navigating Centrelink services, including the Disability Support Pension (DSP)
- Engaging with disability services, such as home-based support
- Addressing education and employment concerns
- Guidance and support with complaint processes
- Understanding and applying the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS)
- Resolving transport accessibility issues
- Ensuring access to public places
- Specialist support for people with communication support needs
- Guardianship
And more.
Looking for support with something else?
Ask us anyway. As a disability-led organisation, we always want to help. And if we can’t, we can point you in the right direction and link you in with other services and organisations. Get in touch with us for all your individual advocacy needs today!
Get in touch
You can contact us by:
Phone: 03 9671 3000 (Please leave a message and we will call you back as soon as we can)
Email: advocacy@drc.org.au
Or you can fill out a form by choosing from the buttons below.
We also offer interpreter and translation services.
Want to find your community? Join Belong!
Alongside providing individual advocacy support, DRC also runs Belong, a radically inclusive disability community, with both online and in-person events. Check out what Belong has to offer today!