Facebook-f Twitter Youtube

Resource Library

Jeremy The Dud

Robot Army
Wednesday 1st November, 2017
Jeremy the Dud is a comedy set in a world where everyone has a disability, and those that don't are treated with the same prejudice, stigma and condescending attitudes people
Read more about Jeremy The Dud

Restrictive Intervention Data System cohort follow-up study

Professor Ben Richardson
Senior Practitioner - Disability
Tuesday 31st October, 2017
This project investigated the prevalence of persistent restraint and its predictors among individuals with a disability accessing residential services in Victoria. Taken together the results suggest  that people who are administered antipsychotic medications
Read more about Restrictive Intervention Data System cohort follow-up study

Preventing and Responding to Abuse: Guidance for Victorian disability service providers’ Resources

Disability Services Commissioner
Wednesday 1st November, 2017

The Office of the Disability Services Commissioner held a conference called Preventing and Responding to Abuse: Guidance for Victorian disability service providers’  on 12th September 2017. It was well attended…

Read more about Preventing and Responding to Abuse: Guidance for Victorian disability service providers’ Resources

Decision-making Controls for Sustainability — National Disability Insurance Scheme Access

Cheryl Wilson, Deanne Allan, Tessa Osborne, Matt Owen, Fei Gao and Andrew Rodrigues
Australian National Audits Office
Thursday 19th October, 2017

The objective of this audit was to assess the effectiveness of controls being implemented and/or developed by the National Disability Insurance Agency (NDIA) to ensure National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) access…

Read more about Decision-making Controls for Sustainability — National Disability Insurance Scheme Access

Unfitness to Plead Final report

Unfitness to Plead Project
Melbourne Social Equity Institute
Thursday 7th September, 2017
Unfitness to plead laws in Australia have been widely recognised as requiring reform and modernisation. The Unfitness to Plead Project sought to develop practical and legal options to address the problem
Read more about Unfitness to Plead Final report

Factors associated with the use of mechanical restraint in disability services

Lynne S. Webber, Ben Richardson, Kathryn L. White, Padraig Fitzpatrick, Keith McVilly & Sheridan Forster
Journal of Intellectual & Developmental Disability, DOI: 10.3109/1366825
Wednesday 17th May, 2017
Mechanical restraint refers to the use of materials or devices to restrict the behaviours of a person with a disability, where the restraint is neither for therapeutic purposes or required
Read more about Factors associated with the use of mechanical restraint in disability services

19 Stories of inclusion and the right to independent living

Belonging Matters
Monday 2nd October, 2017
Why 19 stories? Because Article 19 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities refers to the right to live independently and participate in the community. Australia has
Read more about 19 Stories of inclusion and the right to independent living

Whatever it takes: Access for women with disabilities to domestic and family violence services

ANROWS
Thursday 7th September, 2017
This research report aims to help tertiary response services to respond effectively to the needs of women with disabilities. Women with disabilities who have experienced violence seek help and support
Read more about Whatever it takes: Access for women with disabilities to domestic and family violence services

Review of the National Advocacy Program – Consultation Report

Department of Social Services (DSS)
Wednesday 9th August, 2017
This report summarises the responses received to the Discussion Paper, meetings with stakeholders by phone, in small groups and in large forums, and relevant research and review findings. It describes
Read more about Review of the National Advocacy Program – Consultation Report

How attitudes disable

Presented by Lynne Haultain
Up Close ep.399
Tuesday 1st August, 2017

Rethinking our assumptions about people with impairments is a critical step towards more inclusiveness Social epidemiologist Professor Eric Emerson argues that “disability” and “being disabled” really refer to the effects…

Read more about How attitudes disable

Australian Digital Inclusion Index

RMIT, Swinburne University's Centre for Social Impact and Telstra
Tuesday 1st August, 2017
This report reveals that although online participation is increasing across Australia, gaps continue to exist- and widen- between those who are digitally “included” and “excluded”. The report found that Australians with
Read more about Australian Digital Inclusion Index

Blindness No barrier Podcast

John Coleman
Blindness No Barrier
Friday 30th June, 2017

A nine part series of interviews covering the remarkable life of David Blyth, with a particular focus on his role in developing advocacy services for people who are blind and…

Read more about Blindness No barrier Podcast
Facebook-f Twitter Youtube

For Advocates

Resources

Events

Find an advocate

Have your say

Your account section

Contact Information

DARU is auspiced by DAV and VCOSS with funding from the Victorian Government Office for Disability

Disability Advocacy Victoria Inc.
Victorian Council of Social Service
Victoria State Government