How we help
We provide free individual advocacy support services to people with disability across two-thirds of NSW.
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You can contact the Disability Gateway to assist you to find an advocate service to assist you : 1800 643 787
New England
Suite 6/188-192 Beardy St
Armidale NSW 2350
(PO Box 957)
West and Far West
Room 10 96 Russell Street
(PO Box 1469)
Bathurst NSW 2795
West and Far West
Suite 12 Exchange Arcade
324-330 Argent Street
(PO Box 295)
Broken Hill NSW 2880
North Coast
Shop 8/13-15 Park Avenue
(PO Box 418)
Coffs Harbour NSW 2450
West and Far West
31-33 Churst Street
Dubbo NSW 2830
Hunter South
Suite 110, 159 Mann Street Gosford
Hunter North
Suite 1, Level 2, Devonshire House
408 King Street
Newcastle West NSW 2302
Western Sydney
Level 7, 79 George Street
Parramatta NSW 2150
Mid North Coast
Suite 7, Level 1 "The Port"
68 Clarence Street, Port Macquarie NSW 2444
New England
Suite 2, Level 1
422-426 Peel Street (PO Box 814)
Tamworth NSW 2340
Mid North Coast
146 Victoria Street
Taree NSW 2430
Nepean Blue Mountains
42 Great Western Highway
Valley Heights NSW 2777
Our individual advocacy support services can help you sort out a range of issues if you are being treated unfairly. We can help you get fair treatment with:
Government services and programs like Centrelink and the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS)
Disability services
Other services and businesses
Workplaces
Schools, universities and TAFEs
Accommodation
Transport and access
Legal, healthcare and money issues
Our self-help tools can support you with information and advice to resolve common issues and stand up for your rights.
We help create society-wide change to make systems and communities more fair, respectful and inclusive for people with disability.
Our systemic advocacy work is led by the experiences of people with disability. We regularly conduct outreach and research where we meet and listen to the experiences of people with disability, and
people who work in the sector to ensure that we understand the issues at hand. We also monitor trends in our advocacy work to identify issues within systems that support people with disability.
Information gathered through these processes are used to promote positive long-term change. We represent the concerns of people with disability – with a commitment to regional, rural, and remote
issues – to make sure legislation, guidelines and practices support the rights and interests of people with disability.
Our Disability Advocacy Advisory Committee (DAAC) also steers and guides our systemic advocacy work. The committee is made up of people with disability and carers who live in various metropolitan, regional and rural areas. They draw on their lived experience to provide input and direct systemic advocacy to make sure that it is on track with representing the key concerns of people with disability.
Some of our current initiatives to help bring about this change include:
- Responding to parliamentary inquiries and commissions.
- Lobbying policy makers and decision-makers.
- Campaigning and raising public awareness of disability.
- Sharing information, research, and education.