Posted on Feb 29, 2024
Last updated on Apr 17, 2024
Advocacy is a means to promote, protect and defend the welfare and interests of, and justice for, persons are impaired in competence, or diminished in status, or seriously physically isolated.
A personal advocate is an unpaid person who commits to a long-term connection with a person with intellectual disability who has unmet needs and is at risk of social exclusion.
The personal advocate seeks to understand, respond to and represent the person’s interests as if they were the advocate’s own. Advocates must be sufficiently free from conflicts of interest to achieve this single-minded focus.
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Towards Better
To discover talented individuals with a disability and connect and mobilise the assets, skills, and passions of communities and businesses to develop active, valued, and meaningful roles in welcoming communities.
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Towards Better is a Townsville based Certified Social Enterprise discovering talented individuals with a disability and connecting and mobilising the …
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