Family Advocacy

Driving Force CTV News

DVD shows a Canadian televison news segment about a company which employs people with disability and discusses the positive attributes that those individual workers bring to their work.

Justice & the Art of Gentle Outrage

Four profiles of people in different living situations showing how citizen advocates act not only as friends but take up issues that require speaking out on behalf of the person with whom they're involved, showing 'gentle outrage'. Running time: 20 mins. Keyword: Advocacy

Leisure Link

This video shows a peer support relationship between a young woman and an art student, supported by Leisure Link, a one-to-one peer support program operating in Sydney's eastern suburbs. Running Time: 15 mins Keyword: Social Activities

What is Self Advocacy?

People with intellectual disabilities talk about self advocacy. Areas covered are: speaking up for yourself; learning to do things for yourself; having rights and responsibilities; making friends; and helping each other to change things. Running Time: 20 mins. Keyword: Advocacy

Zapping the Barriers

This video is in 3 parts, and aims to develop skills and attitudes to foster more positive interaction between those with and without disabilities. While it is targeted specifically at senior primary school children, much of the material is suitable for adaptation to other age groups.

Supported Employment: It's More than Just a Job

This video is about 7 adults with severe disabilities. They have all moved from a segregated day programme to supported employment in a variety of jobs in the community. The video shows how people who have significant disabilities can take advantage of, and use, natural community supports.

Miller's MAP

This is a live-recording of a MAPS Session (MAPS = McGill Action Planning System). The session was facilitated by Dr Marsha Forest and Jack Pierpoint and involved Miller Cairns, her family and friends, school teachers and classmates.

Circles of Friends in Schools

Inclusion is not just about physical presence, it is about friendship and having a sense of belonging. This video shows the implementation of the Circle of Friends concept at a Victorian school by teacher Marion Spencer aimed at achieving this for Ashley, one of her students.

Moving Out - The Community,

In this video, the third in the trilogy, a cross-section of the general public gives their views on whether or not people with disabilities should live in the community.

If Those Walls Could Talk...

This video documents the experiences, impressions and memories of people with an intellectual disability and their families associated with the former Rydalmere Hospital in Sydney, NSW (Rydalmere Hospital was a very large psychiatric hospital which opened in 1888, housing people with intellectual disability as well as psychiatric disability).

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

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Driving Force CTV News

Justice & the Art of Gentle Outrage

Leisure Link

What is Self Advocacy?

Zapping the Barriers

Supported Employment: It's More than Just a Job

Miller's MAP

Circles of Friends in Schools

Moving Out - The Community,

If Those Walls Could Talk...