19/11/2025
What does advocacy really mean in disability support spaces? 🤝
It's not speaking for people...it's giving space for others' voices and intentionally removing barriers that may prevent people from being heard.
Real advocacy means:
✓ Listening to what someone wants
✓ Supporting their choices
✓ Helping navigate complex systems
✓ Standing alongside them and not in front
✓ Respecting their expertise about their own life
Advocacy isn't something we do to people. It's something we do with them.
Everyone deserves to be heard. Everyone deserves choice and control.