What are Self Advocacy Groups?

Service Providers

Self advocacy groups are important to service providers because they can:

- inform and advise on the quality of the services and make them better

– help with evaluations

- empower people to express their individual needs
  and be involved in decision making and choice within a service

- lead to skills development which can support person centred planning

- support self determination

- support the ideals expressed in the disability service standards including:

– Capacity

- Participation

- Citizenship

- Leadership

- Decision making and choice

- Participation and integration

- Valued status

- Individual needs