Projects: Advocacy WA

Mentors bring lived experience, understanding, and encouragement. Mentees bring fresh goals, ideas, and perspectives. Both gain new skills, insights, and meaningful relationships. It’s a two-way street that uplifts everyone involved.

Self-Advocacy Workshops designed to help people with disability build the skills, knowledge, and confidence to advocate for what they need, want, and deserve.

D-Connect is the belief that community connection matters. When people with disability have safe spaces to share experiences, learn from each other, and build friendships, it strengthens individual confidence and creates lasting impact across our communities.

We believe that everyone deserves to feel safe, respected, and supported — and that starts with knowing your rights. Too often, people with disability aren’t told what good support should look like or how to speak up when something isn’t right. This project is about changing that. One workshop is designed for participants and their support networks to learn together in a supportive, accessible way. The other is for providers to build their understanding of rights and safe, respectful service delivery.

Its goal is to develop the soft skills of young people with disabilities and provide them with the self-assurance to build links with their industry of choice.