About Us
Purpose
Disability Advocacy Victoria Inc. is the peak body representing independent, community-based organisations that advocate with and for people with disability.
Disability Advocacy Victoria Inc. will promote and defend the human rights and valued status of people with disability through systemic advocacy and by supporting and promoting effective independent, community-based advocacy organisations.
Vision
A society in which people with disability are included as equally valued and contributing citizens.
Aims
- To strengthen and promote independent, rights based advocacy in Victoria.
- To promote the rights, needs and choices of people with disability.
Guiding principles and values
Disability Advocacy Victoria Inc is committed to operating in accordance with the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disability and the following guiding principles and values.
- Leadership by people with disability.
- Diversity of approaches to advocacy.
- Responding to the diverse needs, interests, and aspirations of people with disability.
- Respect for the autonomy of individual member organisations.
- Inclusion, collaboration, and consensus decision-making.
- Respect for the experience and knowledge of the needs and rights of people with disability held by member organisations.
Goals
- Lead a strong & unified independent disability advocacy sector.
- To ensure the needs of the disability advocacy sector are heard by the Victorian government.
- Engage in systemic advocacy with people with disability on issues impacting their rights and choices.