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The birthday party host – a valued role for children

The birthday party host – a valued role for children encourages typical but essential life experiences. You can find more examples on the Resourcing Families webpage: Family stories

Getting ready for school and life

Are you thinking about school for your child? It is never too early to start thinking about the future.

An Updated Sketch of the Rationales for the Existence and Independence of the Citizen Advocacy Office

An exploration of the implementative/administrative mechanism and the presentation on newer thoughts that are more systemic.

Assumptions Underlying Citizen Advocacy

This paper reviews twenty-two assumptions that point to, suggest and support Citizen Advocacy rather than some other valid moral strategy.

Making the Most of Evaluation

This article outlines some of the possible variables that influence the success of an evaluation effort. Parties wishing to make the most of their evaluation experience may find that attending to these variables produces more beneficial results.

The Challenge that IS Citizen Advocacy

This article looks at the origin of the Citizen Advocacy principles and talk about the challenges of this advocacy service.

Forgotten and Found

Kim tells us the story of her life to explain why no child should grow up in an institution and separated from family. She subsequently worked through the challenges of becoming independent in the community and eventually becoming an advocate.

Seeing Red: From Anger to Advocacy, a guide to community inclusion for all

The book is about Ethel Temby’s journey as a parent and as a tireless advocate working towards improving the lives of people with disability, community inclusion and deinstitutionalisation.

Jacqueline Currey

Advocacy and Leadership Development Coordinator

Resources for families

An important part of our work is to strengthen the knowledge of families. Through the resources available in our online resource library the Inclusion Collection, we provide families with information that is both inspiring and practical and promote positive values about people with disability.