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Community Resource Unit
If you or the person you care for has a disability then you may be able to access the ‘Empowering Inclusive Communities’ workshop and webinar series. The series can help you to increase your knowledge, skills and confidence.
Sports Inclusion Australia
Sport Inclusion Australia is a national sporting organisation. If you have an intellectual disability, Sport Inclusion Australia can help you be included into mainstream community sport.
Australian Human Rights Commission
The Australian Human Rights Commission promotes disability rights to build a more accessible and inclusive society. The Commission has a guide to the laws that protect all people from discrimination and information on access to justice for people with disability that you can access on their website. You can also make a human rights complaint to the Australian Human Rights Commission. The complaints process is free.
Belonging Matters
Belonging Matters run a mix of face-to-face, peer-to-peer and online programs to support you with community participation, self- direction and independent living.
Australian Government – Support for parents and caregivers of children with disability
The Disability Discrimination Act 1992 (DDA) protects Australians from discrimination based on disability. The DDA makes it unlawful to discriminate on the ground of the person’s disability. This includes discrimination that occurs in the context of accessing and participating in children’s education and care services. All children’s education and care services (including family day care) must comply with the DDA.
The Department of Education has partnered with Children and Young People with Disability Australia to co-design resources that help parents and caregiver of children with disability to understand their rights under the DDA.
Australian Government – support for students with disability and their parents and caregivers
The Disability Standards for Education 2005 clarify the obligations of education and training providers and seek to ensure that students with disability can access and participate in education on the same basis as students without disability.
The Department of Education has partnered with Children and Young People with Disability Australia to co-design resources that help students to understand their rights under the Disability Standards for Education 2005, and to work with their education provider to make reasonable adjustments which help them learn and participate on the same basis as their peers.
Barkuma Neighbourhood Centre
Barkuma can assist Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people with disability to access supports aimed at increasing independence, inclusion and social participation.
Bungree Aboriginal Association
Bungree provides a range of programs and services that may assist Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people with disability and their families in the Central Coast and Newcastle regions.