Our Work
Advocacy and Leadership Development
  • Enabling families in NSW to have opportunities to develop and enhance their advocacy skills.
  • Working with families to help increase their understanding of how to bring about positive change in the lives of children and adults with developmental disability.
  • Providing avenues for the development of advocacy related leadership among families.
Systems Advocacy
The systems advocacy work of Family Advocacy aims to enable:
  • Children and young people with disability to grow up in families that are properly supported.
  • Children and young people to be welcomed and educated in the regular class of the local neighbourhood school with support.
  • School leavers, young people and adults with high support needs to have personalised, effective and ongoing adult education opportunities.
  • Families to have a stronger family voice at the systemic level.
  • People with developmental disability to have their rights and interests promoted and protected by independant advocacy in NSW.
  • Adults with develipmental disability living in institutions to be provided with support to live indiviudualised lives in the community.
  • State and Commonwealth Governments, politicians and bureaucats to be committed to supporting inclusive lives for people with disability as a priority.
Information and Resources
  • Providing information to families, professionals and students to support inclusion through a unique lending library of journal articles, videos and books known as The Inclusion Collection.
  • Linking families, professionals and students to suitable resources and services which enhance the lives of people with disabilities.
  • Facilitating general information sessions for families and the wider community on request.
  • Producing "Families for Change" the official Journal of Family Advocacy