Youth Disability Advocacy Service
The Youth Disability Advocacy Service is the only advocacy service in Victoria dedicated to helping young people with disability achieve their human rights.
We offer a free individual advocacy service to young people aged 12-25 who have a disability. This means that you can come to us if you feel like your rights are being ignored and you need help.
YDAS is continually undertaking systemic advocacy and working on policy issues that are important to young people with disability such as housing, access to NDIS, employment and education. We work to ensure that the interests of young people with disability are heard by government and other decision-makers.
Find out more by visiting our website: www.ydas.org.au
Right to be Heard Website Tour
About YDAS
Right to be Heard: A co-designed advocacy tool for empowering disabled young people (Auslan version)
Right to be Heard Promo Video
Jessi's story- Making a Complaint
Thali's story- Making a Complaint
Willow's story- Making a Complaint
Hendrix's story- Making a complaint
About YDAS
What are human rights and how do you know if they are not being met?
What is advocacy and why might you need it?
How can YDAS advocates support you?
Key values of YDAS advocates
What is it like getting advocacy support from YDAS?
My friend has the same disability as you. Do you know them?
Disability Pride by Hendrix Barker
What is accessibility in the workplace?
How to talk with disabled young people
Can you have a relationship?
Commonly asked questions for Maya Sandon
You don't look like someone with a disability
Is it okay to ask questions?
You're so inspirational
Can anyone cure you?
Commonly asked questions for Anna Dang
3. What changes would you like employers to make
6. Good disability representation in the media
Xav The Spectrum lyric video
2. What's the best part of having a disability