Advocacy Capacity Building

Speaking up for better health


What is advocacy?

Advocacy means speaking up about problems and solutions, to make things better.

Advocacy on intellectual disability health care

  • Amplifies voices and lived experiences of people with intellectual disability
  • Raises awareness about the issues and the solutions
  • Influences decision makers to make changes to laws, policies, systems, and services
  • Changing behaviour to improve care.

Advocacy can look like

  • Talking to government and decision makers
  • Asking health services to make care fair and accessible
  • Sharing stories so people understand the problems
  • Working together with organisations to make a bigger impact.
     
Building capacity in advocacy

The Centre's Driving Change Team is helping people and organisations all over Australia speak up for better health for people with intellectual disability.

We call this building capacity in advocacy.

We are working with people with intellectual disability and peak organisations to build advocacy skills focused on health. This support is currently targeted around State and Territory elections, but this may change.

We are also creating Advocacy Training modules for:

  • Centre staff
  • Centre partners and collaborators
  • Organisations we support in each State and Territory
     
Who We Have Worked With

This map shows where we have been and where we are headed.

A map of Australia and locations of disability organisations we are working.
Graphic of five people figures standing together.
Hear from our partners

Sophie Howlett talks to Mary Butterworth from Developmental Disability Western Australia.