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Advance Your Advocacy Practice: Advocating for People with a Disability from Cultural and Linguistically Diverse Backgrounds

Advance Your Advocacy Practice
Thursday 18th July, 2024

CALD people with disability, as a cohort, are at higher risk of experiencing violence and abuse when compared to the general population of people with disability. They are also less…

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Advance Your Advocacy Practice: Advocating for People with a Disability from Cultural and Linguistically Diverse Backgrounds

Thursday 18th July, 2024, 1.30pm - 2.30pm
DARU

CALD people with disability, as a cohort, are at higher risk of experiencing violence and abuse when compared to the general population of people with disability. They are also less…

Read more about Advance Your Advocacy Practice: Advocating for People with a Disability from Cultural and Linguistically Diverse Backgrounds

Protecting the rights of tenants in disability accommodation settings – Advance Your Advocacy Practice panel session

DARU
Thursday 21st December, 2023
In this Advance Your Advocacy Practice panel session representatives from Victoria Legal Aid and Villamanta Disability Rights Legal Service provide information about protecting the rights of tenants in disability accommodation
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The difference between unfair treatment and unlawful discrimination

DARU
Tuesday 18th July, 2023
Many people with disabilities face barriers in accessing systems and are treated unfairly. But when is it simply unfair or unjust treatment, and when is it unlawful? Is it
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Charter of Rights of Parents with Disability in their interactions with Child Protection System

DARU
Wednesday 26th April, 2023
The Charter was released in February 2023 and aims to improve outcomes for parents and carers with disabilities who come into contact with Child Protection in Victoria. The Charter recognises
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Family violence response and people with disability

DARU
Tuesday 27th September, 2022
Disability Advocates are highly likely to identify family violence or receive disclosures of experiences of violence in their work. Rates of violence against people with disabilities are around twice as
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Locked in: Moving on COVID action for people with disability

When COVID-19 arrived on Australian shores in 2019, people with disability knew that they would be adversely affected.  But their very real concerns were ignored which heightened the level of
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National Disability Strategy 2021-31 explained

DARU
Wednesday 2nd March, 2022
On International Day of People with Disability 3 December 2021, Australia’s new Disability Strategy was released with an initial investment of $250 million over the life of the strategy.  The
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Attitudes Matter: Community attitudes toward people with disability in Australia

DARU
Wednesday 27th October, 2021
Attitudes are linked to disability-based discrimination and social exclusion, which in turn impact the health and wellbeing of people with disability. The Centre of Research Excellence in Disability and Health
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SDA and SIL – Your home, your life, your choice

DARU
Thursday 28th October, 2021
The way we think about housing has changed rapidly with the development of Specialist Disability Accommodation (SDA), and in relation to supports, Supported Independent Living (SIL). Join Jamie-Lee Dwyer, Belinda
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Advocating in Victoria’s child protection system

DARU
Tuesday 26th October, 2021
Respect for home and family is recognised as a right for people with disability under the United Nations Convention on the rights of Persons with Disability. Yet all too often,
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Gateways and Gatekeepers: An exploration of the issues facing people with episodic mental illness during transition to the NDIS

DARU
Wednesday 9th June, 2021
Dr Elizabeth Hudson presents the findings from her PhD research Which involved exploring the experiences of people with psychosocial disability during transition to the NDIS. She discovered that system-level structural
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