YDAS - Youth Disability Advocacy Service

23/10/2025

Knowing how to take care of our friends and the people around us helps us create meaningful, connected communities 🤝

See more advice and strategies for community building driven by disability justice in Get the Go-Ahead: Caring for Our Communities at gtga.org.au

23/10/2025

You're invited to the launch of Get the Go-Ahead: Accessibility Toolkit, a new resource empowering workers to create accessible, welcoming spaces and services for disabled people.

These resources have been co-designed and co-produced by a Disabled Young Experts group.

Come along to:
🌈 Get the first look at the toolkit
🗣️ Hear from speakers on accessibility and disability justice practices in s*xual and reproductive health, gendered violence services, and community spaces.
🤝 Connect with disabled people and workers across community, health, youth, disability, and q***r spaces.

Get the Go Ahead accessibility toolkit launch

21/10/2025

There’s more than one way to communicate and no matter how we do, we all deserve to be heard.

In Caring for Our Communities, Hadasah shared faer experience of using a tablet to talk, and the impact other people’s reactions can have. Read more: gtga.org.au

01/10/2025

On school holidays and wondering if school is still right for you? You’re not alone. Many young Victorians feel the same way.

The YDAS Early School Leavers Program is here to support disabled young people who have left school or are thinking about leaving.

We offer workshops and one-on-one support to help you find the work, training, or study path that feels right for you. There’s more than one way to get where you want to go.

Find out more on our website and see if this program is right for you: https://yacvic.org.au/earlyleavers?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=earlyleavers

17/09/2025

Job opportunity for disabled young people! We’re hiring a Programs Facilitator to join the YDAS team 🙌

This casual role is perfect for a disabled young person (aged 25 or under) who’s passionate about making change and supporting others to do the same 💪

As a Programs Facilitator, you’ll:
✨ Design and deliver workshops, training and consultations
✨ Help make services more inclusive for disabled young people
✨ Bring your lived experience and ideas to the role
✨ Receive full training in how to deliver our flagship programs – including Young Leaders, Together, and Map Your Future.

You’ll get advance notice of upcoming workshops and projects, and you can choose what you’d like to be involved in.

📅 Join our team! Applications close 22 September 2025

https://www.ethicaljobs.com.au/members/yacvicej/ydas-programs-facilitator-1?locations=1

02/09/2025

Leaving school early? 📚✏️ We can help. When school is not working for you, it can be tough! You might be feeling worried, stressed or alone. But there is help available (and it’s free).

Check out our new Early School Leavers Program:

https://yacvic.org.au/earlyleavers?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=earlyleavers

24/07/2025

July marks Disability Pride Month! We’re sharing some amazing artwork, stories and resources from young people created for the YDAS Disability Pride project ❤️

Disability pride can mean being proud of who you are and embracing your disability. It can also mean feeling confident and not hiding your disability. Either way, we hope you take the time to celebrate in whatever way feels right to you 🥰🥰

We want to celebrate by sharing the following resources:

👉 Disability Pride Gallery, which contains creative works from 30 disabled young people: https://www.yacvic.org.au/ydas/resources-and-training/gallery/

👉 How to talk with disabled young people, disability terminology and accessibility in the workplace: https://www.yacvic.org.au/ydas/resources-and-training/disability-pride-resources/

24/07/2025

You asked, we answered! Check out this video made for Get the Go Ahead, where disabled young people answer questions you didn't know how to ask. For the full video, and even more resources about s*x, consent and relationships head on over to gtga.org.au

24/07/2025

Check out this video made for Get the Go Ahead, where disabled young people answer questions you didn't know how to ask. For the full video, and even more resources about s*x, consent and relationships head on over to gtga.org.au

11/07/2025

Are you a disabled young person aged 12–25? Want to tell the United Nations what matters to YOU?

Join Satara Uthayakumaran, 2025 UN Youth Rep, to share your experiences and ideas for a fairer world.

🗓 Tuesday 22 July
🕛 12–2pm AEST
📍 YDAS Boardroom (Melbourne) or Zoom
📝 Sign up by Tuesday 15 July

This is your chance to lead, speak up and be heard.

🔗 Sign up here: https://youthdisabilityadvocacyservice.snapforms.com.au/form/meet-the-australian-un-youth-representative-fJ7wYRBgxG

17/06/2025

🗣️ New Opportunity for Disabled Young People: We want to hear from you!
Are you a disabled young person aged 12–25 living in Australia? We want to hear what you think of the new Right to be Heard hub!

Your feedback will help us improve the site and make sure it really works for young people like you. The survey takes 5–10 minutes and is anonymous.

🎁 At the end, you can choose to enter a prize draw for a gift card!

💻 Before you do the survey you’ll have to check out the disabled young people section of the hub - you can find it here: righttobeheard.org.au/disabled-young-people/

👉 Once you’ve had a look around the hub, you can fill in the survey, which you can find here: youthdisabilityadvocacyservice.snapforms.com.au/form/right-to-be-heard-feedback-survey

To be able to do this survey, you will  need to  have used  the Right to be Heard hub. This means that you must go through the 'disabled young people' section and looked at the different pages. Here is the link:

30/05/2025

Did you make it to our Right to Be Heard launch yesterday? It was big—just like the impact our Right to be Heard hub is set to make!

Created by and for disabled young people, this hub is full of resources and young people’s stories about speaking up and making complaints.

It has been YDAS's first national project and has been led by disabled young people across Australia.

We’re so excited to share Right to be Heard with the world! Check out our promo video below, and then head over to the hub to see what it’s all about! Share the hub with disabled young people, so they know they have the 'Right to be Heard'!

www.RightToBeHeard.org.au