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What is Systemic advocacy?

Systemic advocacy seeks to influence or secure positive long-term changes that remove barriers and address discriminatory practices to ensure the collective rights and interests of people with disability are upheld.

 What is Individual advocacy?

Individual advocacy seeks to uphold the rights and interests of people with all types of disabilities on a one-to-one basis by addressing instances of discrimination, abuse and neglect. It  involves working towards influencing individual outcomes by working for and with the individual to ensure their rights are respected.

What does PDCN do?

We are a systemic advocacy organisation.

 I am having difficulty with a specific issue and was wondering if PDCN could help me?

PDCN is a systemic advocacy organisation. This means that we cannot advocate for you on an individual basis. However we do have a number of training courses that can help you gain the skills you need to advocate for yourself.

Who should I contact if I want someone to advocate for me individually?

 List of Advocacy Organisations

Some of these organisations do individual advocacy, others only do systemic advocacy while some organisations do both.