Karma Support Disability Advocacy Services: Make Your Voice Heard
This document has some important information in it.
Please take your time to read and understand it.
Ask someone you trust to explain it to you if you need help.
There are some words in this document that might be hard to read or understand.
Hard words in this document will be in large blue print
What is this document about?
You have right to be heard and understood.
You also have the right to feel safe.
Some people find it hard to talk about something bad that happened.
Some people find it hard to talk about what they want.
Some people find it hard to tell people they are not happy about something.
Some people are scared that something bad will happen if they tell someone.
This document gives you information about how to get help with this.
We can help you.
Other companies can help you too.
You must not be charged for this service.
It must be for free.
How we can help you
We want to help you if something bad happened, or if you think something bad happened.
Karma Support Services will support you to tell us about this.
If we don’t understand you, we will ask if you know someone who can help you to tell us.
If you don’t have anyone to help, we can help of find someone to help.
Sometimes you can understand but can’t tell us.
This could be because we are not speaking with you in the right way.
We will find the right way to communicate with you.
If we think you need help to tell us about how you feel.
Or if we think you need help to tell us about something you are not happy about.
We will find someone who can help you with this.
How other companies can help you
These companies can help you to speak up for yourself (self-advocacy)
Or they can speak up for you (advocacy)
Disability Advocacy and Complaints Service of South Australia Incorporated (‘DACSSA’)
Address: Level 7 / 70 Pirie Street, ADELAIDE, SA 5000
Phone: (08) 7122 6030
Email: admin@dacssa.org.au
Disability SA
Phone: (08) 8568 5107
E-mail: admin@disabilitysa.com.au
Uniting Communities Disability Advocacy Service
Address: 43 Franklin Street, Adelaide SA 5000
Phone: (08) 8202 5960
Email: das@unitingcommunities.org
Why is this important?
Many people with disability have been hurt.
And many people have not been treated well.
At Karma Support Services, we care about your happiness and wellbeing.
We want you to feel safe and understood.
We want to make sure you understand information we are giving to you.
And we want to make sure we understand you.
We can only work through things together if we can understand each other.
You do not need to go through anything alone.
We can help you get support to make yourself heard and understood.
Word list
Advocacy
Speaking up for someone.
Self-advocacy
Speaking up for yourself.