OUR ADVOCACY SERVICE

Ability Incorporated Advocacy Service is funded to advocate and support people with disabilities their families and carers. The service is FREE to consumers. A person can access the service if they have a disability that has an; acquired brain injury, sensory, or physical impairment, or a combination of such, and is permanent or likely to be permanent and the person must have a need for ongoing support services.

Ability Incorporated welcomes parents and service providers to seek information and support whenever needed. Referral can be made by ringing us yourself, instructing another service to ring us on your behalf or asking your family or carer to help you.

People from non-english speaking backgrounds, Aboriginals and Torres Strait Islanders are welcome under the above criteria.

All policies for the service are developed in consultation with consumers, management committee, staff, volunteers and other interested people.

Some of the reasons you may need an advocacy service are:-

  • People with disabilities continue to be; treated badly, some like second class citizens and others having very few rights..
  • People's disabilities are viewed as all the same which can lessen the support they may need. 
  • People with disabilities sometimes have less power than other groups. 
  • Some interest groups treat people with disabilities as being of little importance.

Advocacy needs to be involved in the problem of power, it is a process of testing ideas about what people think.

 Our Client Service Information Booklet may be viewed or downloaded from the noticeboard.