1. Advocating for people with intellectual disability in New Zealand
David Corner, Andrea Jamison and Claire Stewart, October 2017

2. What is IHC?
Founded in Parents wanted their children to be treated the same as other children. Parents wanted their children to have good health and to go to good schools.

3. IHC
Advocates for the rights, inclusion and welfare of all people with intellectual disabilities.
Supports people with intellectual disabilities to live satisfying lives in the community.

4. IHC believes in people:
Being treated with respect and dignity
Having a say in their lives
Living, learning, working and enjoying life as part of a community
Having support to meet their goals and aspirations
Being part of a family

5. Advocacy Talk to local and international leaders Talk to people
with disabilities
families and
supporters
Communicate
about issues
Write letters
Facebook
Support other
advocates
Find out about
Council Plans,
make submissions
lobby
Government
plans,
make submissions,
Give
information
Advocacy

6. Human rights
Grounded in human rights Embed human rights “ CRPD speaks to all of society and the nature of the social contract between individuals, families, communities and government” Inclusion International (2012)

7. To have an ordinary life (2003)
Concluded “That many people with intellectual disability had lives that were far from ‘ordinary’ and that there was a long way to go for them to achieve the same day-to-day rights of citizenship as the rest of the population or the vision of the 2001 New Zealand Disability Strategy”

8. IHC’s 2017 survey Responses suggest:
• Progress is stalled but signs that some things are going the right way.
• The quality of people's lives depends on where they live, their individual circumstances and, too often, luck.
• Families feel worn down and are worried about the future.
• Opportunities for a good life are limited in many different and often compounding ways.

9. Three types of advocacy
Systemic advocacy
Community advocacy
Self-advocacy

10. We advocate for people with intellectual disabilities
Being welcomed and connected in their communities
Learning, participating and contributing in same ways/rates as peers
Being included in policy, planning, monitoring and reporting
Timely, flexible, fair and transparent processes and systems

11. We advocate for inclusive systems
Lobbying and campaigns
Writing submissions
Keeping up to date with and commenting on issues
Supporting the campaigns of others
Monitoring progress on government plans and strategies

12. We advocate for inclusive communities
Individual/family and community capacity building
Practical skill development
Providing information
Developing resources
Offering workshops/training
Providing consultancy/advisory services
Community development (working with other community partners to promote inclusion in specific communities)

13. Self advocacy is… Speaking up about things that important to me
Having a say about everything in my life
Being listened to
Having choices
Doing things for myself
Having support when I need it
People seeing me as an individual

14. IHC

15. IHC
IHC’s David Corner and Trish Grant - Inclusion International Asia Pacific representatives

16. Advocacy with Inclusion International
IHC
Advocacy with Inclusion International
Empower us - Inclusion International self- advocacy website

17. http://www.un.org/sustai nabledevelopment/
IHC
Sustainable Development Goals
- Leave no-one behind.
nabledevelopment/

18. IHC
Incheon Strategy to “Make the Right Real” for persons with Disabilities in Asia and the Pacific
htreal.net/about-us

19. https://ihc.org.nz/advocacy