Client Message from James Park;

Hi I’m James Park and I’ve been with Self advocacy Sydney for one and a half years. When I first joined I was unemployed and looking for work for a long time. My mum was worried about me so she took me to SAS to get support with learning new skills.

Since then I have done the leadership course where I learnt how to be more organised and I learnt how to co-operate with other people and to work as part of a team. I also did the Managing Anger course which helped me a lot.

I now have a part time job at Mc Donald’s and volunteer at Westmead hospital. The skills that I learnt at Self Advocacy Sydney have helped me in my job and volunteer work.

I enjoy coming to self advocacy training because I learn new skills and the staff are very friendly and I feel welcome here.

 Message from our Executive Officer Arthur; 
People with an intellectual disability who have had support all their lives that are ready now to reduce or even end that support, come to Self Advocacy Sydney to commence to learn to do things for themselves and be a Self Advocate, instead of relying on others.

Self Advocacy Sydney is an agency that provides a FREE service and a place where people with intellectual disabilities go to meet, organise, work and train others on how to improve their quality of life.

Our goal is to help and support people with intellectual disabilities with their individual plans in becoming empowered, making their own decisions, speaking up for themselves and others, taking control of their own lives, creating awareness about disability issues and achieving maximum independence and quality of life. 

Self Advocacy Sydney does this by tailoring individual training needs for each client and also provides the following training programs that we have developed: Self Advocacy and Speaking Up Skills, Disability Awareness, Communication, Anger Management, Assertiveness, Be Aware Not Scared, Budgeting, Rights, Responsibilities and Consequences, Running Meetings, Understanding The Standards, Different Relationships, Being Treated Fairly, Leadership, How to Co-operate with Others and much more...
   
Our target clients are people with an intellectual disability, 18 years old and over, living within the Sydney area. If you would like to find out more about Self Advocacy Sydney please phone us or call Sabrina to arrange a client appointment.

 Self Advocacy Sydney is an organisation run by and for people with Intellectual Disability

This agency is funded by the Australian Government through the
Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs