Individual 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 across so-called Victoria, Australia.
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.
What is advocacy?
How can we help?
Advocacy is about supporting you to understand your human rights, and to speak up when your rights need to be defended.
To use an analogy: if life is like driving a car, you could think of advocacy like using a GPS. You are driving the car. The advocate is the GPS.
An advocate can help you understand your options, work out what steps you can take, and communicate with services, organisations or government agencies on your behalf.
Want to know:
- what we do?
- what we can help with?
- who else might be able to help?
Read our Advocacy Scope to find out what to expect from DRC, what we do, and who else might be able to help if we can’t.
Communication access
Communication access is part of advocacy. We recognise that people communicate and understand information in different ways. We will work with you to understand how you prefer to communicate and what adjustments or supports you need to participate in your advocacy. This might include:
- more time
- written information
- Easy Read
- Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC)
- communication partners
- interpreters
- video calls
- other communication methods.