Family Advocacy

What do you want to be when you grow up? The importance of life-long learning

A mother shares insights into the importance of life-long learning for children with developmental disability. She discusses the importance of family-centered early intervention and respite services, as well as a community that encourages participation of all members.

Being Mortal

In Being Mortal, bestselling author Atul Gawande tackles the hardest challenge of his profession: how medicine can not only improve life but also the process of its ending.

Worth Living

In this powerful article, Johnson confrontingly writes of her happiness and success in life 'despite' her incurable neuromuscular disease. She argues against the judgment of a South Carolina court that the assisted suicide of disabled people was 'an act of mercy'.

A Good Life, An Ordinary Life

This collection of articles from CRUcial Times features contributions from many writers (including people with disability, service workers, parents and community members). It covers a range of topics that fundamentally relate to the question,

That which binds us: Friendships as a safe harbour in a storm

The Strully's have written an excellent and simple piece about the necessity of friendships in their daughter's life. In fact, they unequivocally state that it is friendship that will ultimtately mean life or death for their daughter. It is the only real safeguard of a person's human rights.

My world now: Life in a nursing home, from the inside

This article is extremely powerful for one main reason. It is written by an 'insider' about her life experiences within this service system.

An inclusive education as part of an inclusive life. A parent's perspective

Wendy Stroeve is a teacher who has worked in NSW secondary schools and TAFE and is the mother of Alex, a young man with high support needs.

David's Journey: From a locked ward to a life of his own

This is the third article in the "Your Move' series. In it we meet David, a young man with destructive and challenging behaviours. Key people, including family members, came together to focus on who David really was and what was important to him.

A Matter of Life and Death

All people need to have some control over their own lives, to have some form of independence. Belinda, who has high support needs, wanted the chance to lead an independent life so much that she went on a hunger strike.

Building an inclusive life based on gifts, talents and strengths

This presentation was delivered by Darcy Elks at Family Advocacy's 2007 Odyssey Conference. People with disabilities are the bearers of personal and community gifts. These gifts are often overlooked in the ordinary struggle and sometimes overwhelming demands of everday life.

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

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What do you want to be when you grow up? The importance of life-long learning

Being Mortal

Worth Living

A Good Life, An Ordinary Life

That which binds us: Friendships as a safe harbour in a storm

My world now: Life in a nursing home, from the inside

An inclusive education as part of an inclusive life. A parent's perspective

David's Journey: From a locked ward to a life of his own

A Matter of Life and Death

Building an inclusive life based on gifts, talents and strengths