NDIS Self Advocacy Working Group meets with NDIA Representatives

 

 

 

 

 

 

Self advocacy groups can help service providers to:

 

  • Advise on the quality of services and make them better
     
  • Inform service evaluation and reporting
     
  • Empower people to express their individual needs and support self-determination
     
  • Enable participatory decision making and choice within a service
     
  • Build skills to deliver person-centred planning.

 

Self Advocacy supports the aims of the National Disability Insurance Scheme's (NDIS) Information, Linkages and Capacity Building (ILC) to ensure that:

 

  • People with disability are connected and have the information they need to make decisions and choices.
     
  • People with disability have the skills and confidence to participate and contribute to the community and protect their rights.
     
  • People with disability use and benefit from the same mainstream services as everyone else.
     
  • People with disability participate in and benefit from the same community activities as everyone else.
     
  • People with disability actively contribute to leading, shaping and influencing their community.
     

And supports the National Standards for Disability:

 

  • Rights
     
  • Participation and Inclusion
     
  • Individual Outcomes
     
  • Feedback and Complaints
     
  • Service Access
     
  • Service Management

 

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