Victorian Advocacy League For Individuals With Disability (Valid)
Community Service in Yarra

We shield and support the rights and interests of people with intellectual disability. How we bear individual support to adults with an intellectual disability and their families. They all talked about the importance of people with a disability being capable to express their sexuality. Her eldest two sons, Will and Andrew, have autism and multiple disabilities and are in HHS residential care, yet calm needing frequent assistance from their mum! Janice advocates for many families and especially families who may have a family member with behaviors of concern. valid provides a range of advocacy and information strategies that join together, supporting people with a disability on their journey towards empowerment, inclusion and a appropriate life in the community. VALID offers quality workshops designed to enhance the abilities of organizational staff who promote people with disabilities. Advocating for connected and informed communities that urge the rights of people with a disability to be included as full citizens. valid offers training in advocacy principles and skills to people who have a role in supporting, assisting or representing people with a disability. We assist people with all kinds of issues and particularly those who don't have access to a more local advocacy service. VALID provides advice and assistance to urge the spontaneous role played by families advocating for a family member with a disability. An active member of the Disability Advocacy Network of Australia. VALID offers training in advocacy principles and skills to people who have a role in supporting, assisting or representing people with a disability. Pertinent for independent advocates, including people with a disability, family members and concerned citizens and for Disability Encourage Workers, Staff and Paid Carers. Aimed at people experienced in advocacy seeking to flourish their understanding and their effectiveness, this program uses the To Stand Beside: Advocacy for Inclusion Training Manual as a resource to promote the development of advanced advocacy skills, in a human rights model. VALID provides training to people who support, aid or represent people with intellectual disability, including: The aim of the training is to aid people to know about their rights and responsibilities and be more confident in speaking up when making choices and decisions about their life. It is designed to encourage the training and development of effective advocates for people with a disability. VALID works in partnership with devices across Victoria to train staff and labor with clients in accepting and exercising their rights. The process is highly effective when impaired to prosper a vision for a positive future for an individual with a disability and planning personalized supports and services. If people who are supported by services are to have certain control over their lives, if they are to have self directed lives within their own communities then those who are around the person, especially those who promote people in such times of being unwell, need to have person centered thinking skills. This one day workshop will share tools and skills in using Person centered Practices and Approaches for planning for the recovery of people who experience mental health issues. There is eternal been a need for people to get together to share experiences and to rejoice achievements and from the inaugural Having a Say Conference, held in Marlborough in 200, where were almost 190 people attended the enthusiasm generated each year has inspired the conference to grow so that now over 1,00 participants from across Australia, and often from the international community, attending the conference each year. It is aimed directly at staff occupied with people with intellectual disability in an Mature Training and Support Service environment.