About Deadly First Nations Shout Out
Deadly First Nations Shout Out (The Deadlys) is a Self Advocacy Group run by and for First Nations people with an intellectual disability or acquired brain injury in Victoria. Click below to learn more.
Report from the Hand in Hand Parent Meeting
Read this report to hear the voices of parents with Intellectual disability. Parents talk about their experiences with services and supports that were available to them.
Positive Powerful Parents Songs and Spoken Words
Watch this to listen to spoken word and songs from Positive Powerful Parents members about their lives.
Colin Hiscoe’s Life Story
Read this to hear the life story of Colin Hiscoe AM, a self advocate with intellectual disability that has been Reinforce Self Advocacy’s President. Reinforce Self Advocacy is Australia’s oldest Self Advocacy Organisation run by and for people with intellectual disability.
Colin and John Protest to Close Institutions
John and Colin Hiscoe are self advocates with intellectual disability. Watch this to hear them share their story of protesting in 1989 to close institutions.
Reinforce’s Drummond St Ballad with The Rights Tough
The story of how Reinforce Self Advocacy, a self advocacy group run by and for people with intellectual disability, squatted in a government building to fight for the right to live freely in the community for people with disability. Performed live by The Rights Tough and Colin Hiscoe.
Ray Grove Speaks Up about Closing Institutions
Watch this video to hear Ray Grove shared his story of speaking up to close institutions. Ray Groves was a self advocate with intellectual disability who was a member of Self Advocacy Radio Show Raising Our Voices.
Terry’s Story of Living in Institutions
Watch this to hear Terry share his story of growing up in institutions. Terry was a activist with intellectual disability and a member of Reinforce Self Advocacy. Reinforce Self Advocacy is Australia’s older Self Advocacy Organisation run by and for people with intellectual disability.
Supporting People to Have Their Rights in Group Homes
Watch this to hear Colin Hiscoe interview Kate Verdon, a house supervisor of a Group Home where people with disability live. She shares what her and other staff do to respect the human rights of the people that live there.
Messages from Rainbow Rights
Watch this to hear what some Self Advocates from Rainbow Rights want you to know. Rainbow Rights is a self-advocacy group run by and for people with an intellectual disability in the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer or Questioning, Intersex, Asexual (LGBTIQA+) community.
