Housing action long overdue for people with disability
Having a safe, secure and appropriate place to live is a foundational human right – one that too many people with disability are routinely denied.
DANA has released a joint statement with Inclusion Australia and People with Disability Australia outlining concerns and recommendations around housing for people with disability.
“We often hear from advocates about the difficulty of getting disability supports in place for a person without a home,” said DANA CEO Mary Mallett. “A Brisbane advocate told me last year that just about everything he was doing was related to housing because all of the issues that he was trying to help people with were flowing from the fact that they didn’t have a place, an appropriate place to live.”
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DANA eNews – Late August 2022
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National Disability Advocacy Framework submission highlights need for funding, sector development and coordination
DANA welcomed the recent opportunity to make a submission on the draft for a new National Disability Advocacy Framework 2022-2025. In this submission DANA has identified broadly what we think is needed to strengthen disability advocacy in Australia and ensure it is accessible, responsive and targeted to people with disability at risk of violence, neglect or other harms. These actions need to occur in close consultation with the advocacy sector, with governments listening and responding to input and feedback from advocacy organisations and the people with disability they support.
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DANA eNews – July 2022
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This edition includes July Disability Pride Month celebrations, recent events, reports, and consultations plus updates about current inquiries, job and funding opportunities, grants, and resources from Australia’s Disability Advocacy Sector and Community.
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DANA eNews – Mid August 2022
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People With Disability Need a COVID Recovery Plan
Organisations representing hundreds of thousands of people with disability across Australia are calling on political parties to commit to establishing a COVID Recovery Plan for people with disability. The groups want the incoming Australian Government to urgently implement a plan to address the fact that people with disability are being left in lockdown – while the COVID-19 virus is left to surge in the community.
People with disability need significant support to stay safe with so much COVID-19 in the community, so a comprehensive Recovery Plan must be developed with people with disability, their advocates, supporters and representative organisations.
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