DA 2009-10 Annual Report text - no audit report

Disability Advocacy NSW Inc. Annual Report 2009/2010 Local advocacy support backed by a professional organisationƒƒƒƒƒƒƒDisability Advocacy NSW Incorporated Annual Report 2009/2010 DA Background Our organisation, Disability Advocacy NSW Inc (DA) was formed in early 2007 with the amalgamation of Disability Advocacy Service Hunter (DASH) - est. 1994 and Advocacy Northwest (ANW) - est. 1985. After a number of years working together, both services believed that they could provide a better quality service to more people by joining forces. Combined, both services have 35 years experience of advocating for people with a disability. Disability Advocacy NSW Inc. is located in the Hunter, New England and Mid North Coast Regions of NSW Australia and believes that people with a disability have the same rights (and responsibilities) as non-disabled people. We aim to ensure that people with a disability obtain these rights in practice by advocating with and for them. Disability Advocacy NSW is for people with: mental illness neurological disability physical brain injury sensory disability intellectual their family or carers Advocacy? Advocates seek to assist people with a disability who have been unfairly treated. (As a guideline, a person with a disability is treated unfairly if he or she is treated contrary to: law, human rights, policy, standards or well accepted conventions (such ...