Advocacy services can support you or work on your behalf when you are accessing health or social services. This can include listening to your concerns, talking through options with you and coming with you to appointments.
Catholic Social Services promotes a holistic approach by offering counselling, social work support, group courses for children and adults, as well as budgeting / advocacy,
Addressing the speech, language and communication needs of children, youth and adults involved with justice, care and protection, mental health and behaviour services
Kidney Society Auckland provides community support and information for people with kidney disease and their families in the Northland, Auckland, Waikato, Bay of Plenty, Tairawhiti/Gisborne
Cerebral Palsy Society of New Zealand Inc provides an advocacy, funding, information and liaison service to people with Cerebral Palsy and their wider circle.
Disabled Persons Assembly is a pan-impairment disabled person’s organisation that works to realise an equitable society, where all disabled people can direct their own lives.
HAE (hereditary angiodema) Australasia is a not-for-profit patient advocacy organisation dedicated to serving persons with hereditary angioedema, in both New Zealand and Australia.
IHC will advocate for the rights, inclusion and welfare of all people with intellectual disabilities and support them to live satisfying lives in the community.