Access to frontline disability advocacy is at risk due to a serious funding shortfall.
ADEC has joined with fourteen other groups across Victoria to urge the Minister for Disability, the Hon. Lizzie Blandthorn, to provide emergency funding for disability advocacy.
The 2024 Victorian Budget maintained funding for disability advocacy services at the level paid in previous years. But with increased demand, inflation and rising delivery costs this level of funding is simply not adequate to meet the real advocacy needs of people with disability and their families in Victoria.
Please join us to consider a call or email to your Victorian MP and support our call for emergency transitional funding to maintain access to frontline advocacy for disabled people in Victoria
How can you help?
1. Find out who your local MP is
Find out here!
Once you know who your MP is you can find out how to contact them from the Victorian Parliament website, put their name in here then click on their name and all the details will be there in the “contact” tab.
2. Email them to requesting they contact Victorian Minister for Disability, the Hon Lizzie Blandthorn MP, urging the provision of emergency funding to ensure our community has access to the advocacy support it needs.
3. Copy the following email or use it as a basis to write your own
Dear [name of MP]
I am writing to you today to ask that you contact Minister for Disability, the Hon Lizzie Blandthorn, and urge her to release emergency funding for frontline disability advocacy.
I am a supporter of ADEC and know how essential access to disability advocacy is for people with disability and their families.
Having an advocate to turn to supports people with disability to be their own self-advocate. It also helps prevent NDIS exploitation by supporting people with disability to advocate for their rights and call out unfair treatment.
This is an essential service and I need you to do what you can to make sure that any person with a disability who needs an advocate can have access to one.
Thank you for anything you can do to help!
4. Send the email to your MP
Thank you for your kind help!