Family Advocacy

What supports and housing are available

Options for housing in NSW
Community Housing

Community Housing is one of three ways social housing is provided in NSW along with public housing and Aboriginal housing. It is affordable housing that is subsidised by a housing association and/or the Government.

Examples of Personal Portfolios

When a student with a disability arrives in the classroom most teachers are armed only with the scant knowledge and reports held in official documents. But what do they or the other students actually know about who the person is beyond their disability.

Alternative teaching methods

This article provides a comparison between traditional and inclusive methods of teaching as well as an overview of what the research says on the subject. It also has a handy inclusion checklist.

Responding well to people "labelled" as having challenging behaviour

These short videos were taken after a workshop Ann presented for Family Advocacy on Responding well to people "labelled" as having challenging behaviour - Is it behaviour or is it communication?

The workshop encouraged people to:

Determine a process that is respectful and non-punishing
Discover how you can collaborate to find the motivations,effects...

Following the natural paths of childhood

In this article Bob Jackson shares clear evidence of his findings that children with an intellectual disability do better academically and socially when they experience inclusive education.

Family Advocacy’s complaints and grievance process

Below is the process you can follow if you are not satisfied with Family Advocacy's activities or staff; or if you believe we are not complying with an aspect of the National Standards of Disability Services.

Some lessons concerning agency transformation towards personalised services

This paper describes the key learning outcomes that came from the examination of the experience of eight American community-based agencies that altered their service practices from an exclusive reliance on group and fixed models of service, to models of service that were exclusively individualised for the entirety of the people they served....

Planning for Now, Tomorrow and the Future - Resource Guide

As we get older the biggest worry for families with a family member with a disability is “What will happen when I die?”Who will be here to look out for our sons or daughters or sisters or brothers when we are no longer around to look out for them?

We do a...

Getting Prepared

Getting Prepared -tailoring life and supports for an individual Free information session for people with disability and their family members

The Limitations of the Law in Human Services

About the book (from the Preface)

Since the publication of the first edition, Dr. Wolfensberger developed extensive material and taught widely on the limits of a law- and legal rights-based approach to addressing human needs.

We work with families in NSW to defend and promote the rights and interests of people with developmental disability

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What supports and housing are available

Examples of Personal Portfolios

Alternative teaching methods

Responding well to people "labelled" as having challenging behaviour

Following the natural paths of childhood

Family Advocacy’s complaints and grievance process

Some lessons concerning agency transformation towards personalised services

Planning for Now, Tomorrow and the Future - Resource Guide

Getting Prepared

The Limitations of the Law in Human Services