We provide individual advocacy to adults with disabilities living in Metropolitan Melbourne.
DRC works directly with people with disabilities. We accept self referrals, and we also accept referrals from service providers and support people where permission from the client has been sought.
What is individual advocacy?
The role of disability advocacy is to assist people to achieve justice by
* helping people to voice their views in relation to decisions that affect their lives
* acting with or on behalf of people to ensure their rights are recognised and respected
What does advocacy cost?
Our advocacy service is free of charge.
Interpreting and Translation
Language interpreting / translation
Auslan interpreting and
live captioning
can all be arranged at no cost to the client.
What can we do?
Our advocates can help you to
We can provide advocacy support and assistance on a wide range of issues. For example
* Accommodation
* Access to premises
* Centrelink
* Education and Employment
* NDIS
* Transport
English
Arabic
Chinese (Simplified)
Dutch
French
German
Greek
Hindi
Indonesian
Italian
Japanese
Korean
Malay
Portuguese
Punjabi
Russian
Samoan
Sindhi
Spanish
Sudanese
Tamil
Vietnamese