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Supporting PWD
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What we do
PWD's programs include:
- Information Services
- Individual and Group Advocacy
- Boarding House Advocacy Project
- Systemic Advocacy
- Capacity Building
- Education and Training
PWD also auspices the National Disability Abuse and Neglect Hotline, the Complaints Resolution and Referral Service and the Australian Network for Universal Housing Design.
Individual and Group Advocacy
PWD offers free individual and group advocacy support to any person with a disability living in NSW and five regions in Queensland. PWD's Individual Advocacy Services provide non-legal advocacy to individuals and groups of people with disability who have serious and urgent problems. The services also give information to people with disability about how to advocate for themselves.
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Systemic Advocacy
PWD advocates for the reform of systemic issues that have a negative impact on people with disability and their associates. The goals of PWD's systemic advocacy program are promoting the contribution and potential of people with disability and achieving positive changes to those structures, policies and practices which exclude and discriminate against people with disability and put them at risk of abuse and neglect.
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Capacity Building
PWD engages in capacity building or disability rights partnerships which aim to consolidate the development and growth of Disabled People's Organisations since 2002, in order to build the disability rights movement in the Asia Pacific and Internationally.
learn more about PWD's capacity building activities
Information Services
PWD informs its members and the public, about disability rights issues through websites, email updates, its newsletter and other resources. PWD also suggests other sources of information and assistance.
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Training and Education
PWD has extensive experience in the development and delivery of professional training across a wide range of disability areas and develops flexible training packages tailor-made to meet the needs of an organisation. To find out more about PWD's training services or to discuss your specific training needs, contact the Training Manager, Fiona Ballantyne.
See the Training Calendar to learn more about PWD Training & Courses
Supported Projects
Australian Network for Universal Housing Design
People with Disability Australia provides secretariat support to the Australian Network for Universal Housing Design (ANUHD). ANUHD is a national network of housing industry bodies, housing professionals, government professionals, designers & builders, researchers and home occupants who believe that the homes we build for today’s Australia should be fit for all of tomorrow’s Australians. For more information visit the ANUHD website
NSW Disability Advocacy Network
People with Disability Australia supports NSW Disability Advocacy Network (NDAN) a network of independent community-based disability organisations and groups in New South Wales whose primary purpose is advocacy and/or provision of rights-based information for people with disability. For more information visit the NDAN website
Sexual Assault in Disability and Aged Care (SADA)
People with Disability Australia auspices the SADA project which provides a framework for action in which organisations work together to protect vulnerable people in care settings, raise the awareness of the issues of sexual assault amongst people with disability and older people in care in the wider community and provide resources and training on preventing and responding to sexual assault. For more information visit the SADA website
People with Disability Australia operate the following services
National Disability Abuse and Neglect Hotline
The National Disability Abuse and Neglect Hotline receives reports of abuse and neglect of people with disability receiving Commonwealth, state or territory government-funded disability services, and forwards these to appropriate government agencies for investigation. For more information visit the Hotline website.
Complaints Resolution and Referral Service
The Complaints Resolution and Referral Service (CRRS) assists in the resolution of complaints from people who use disability employment, target support and advocacy services funded by the Australian Government Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs. For more information visit the CRRS website.
PWD Partnerships
Aboriginal Disability Network
Since 2002 PWD has auspiced the Aboriginal Disability Network to bring together Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people with disability to create a voice for change. For more information phone (02) 9319 1422 or visit the Aboriginal Disability Network website
Recent PWD Publications
The E-Bulletin is a source of PWD's internal news and developments in the disability sector at the state, national and international levels. It goes out to members and interested others regularly by email.
PWD E-bulletin #62, June 2010
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