NEWS AND EVENTS
11 June 2009 Live Access Event
Join local power-pop quintet Ben Birchall and the Corrections and up-and-coming doo-woppers The Harpoons, plus MC Stella Young (2009 Raw Comedy state finalist) for a cosy Thursday evening of music and laughs.
LiveAccess events are brought to you by YDAS to raise awareness of the need to have the local music scene, clubs, cubs and festivals accessible to everybody, including people with disabilities. The project, which will include a comprehensive website launched later in the year which details the accessibility of local music venues, will kick off in style at NSC on June 11.
Tickets: $8+bf ($10 at the door if still available) can be purchased from NSC Box Office Monday - Saturday 2.00 - 6.00pm (301 High St, Northcote), on 9486 1677 and online at http://www.northcotesocialclub.com
This venue is wheelchair accessible and has an accessible toilet. If you need attendant support or Auslan interpreting on the night, call Bec at YDAS on 92673712.
Advocacy Training for Young People with Disabilities is back for 2009!
When: Saturday and Sunday March 21 and 22, 2009
Where: Youth Affairs Council of Victoria, Level 2, 172 Flinders St Melbourne
This weekend workshop hosted by the Youth Disability Advocacy Service is designed to assist young people to be awesome self advocates! Here are some things that you will get out of the course:
- Improved understanding of advocacy
- Increased awareness of advocacy strategies
- Increased understanding of disability rights, service standards and the law
- Improved problem-solving, communication and assertiveness skills
- Ability to apply knowledge of advocacy to a specific advocacy issue that is important to you
- Free lunch and the support that you need to participate
- The opportunity to meet other young people
Young people with a disability living in Victoria who are aged between 12 and 25 can take this course for FREE and have all of their related expenses covered!
Young people from rural and regional Victoria will be supported to attend with overnight accommodation in Melbourne
Places are limited, so apply early to avoid disappointment. For more information or an application form, contact George Taleporos through george@ydas.org or 03 9267 3755, SMS 0412 814 851 or Toll-Free (from outside of Melbourne) 1300 727 176
5 April 2008
YDAS Shorts - Short Films By and About Young People with Disabilities
A National Youth Week Event
Première screening of "It`s a Blind Chick Thing", a new short documentary that follows the story of a 19 year old blind, Italian, Egyptian, Muslim stand-up comic who travels to New York forthe gig of a lifetime. Plus, live readings of short film screenplays that promote issues andexperiences of young people with a disability. An open forum willfollow to facilitate discussion about the representations of youth and
disability in film.
Light refreshments provided from 5:30pm / Screening & readings
commence at 6pm SHARP.
Saturday 5th April 2008, 5:30 to 7:30pm
Gasworks Arts Park (Gasworks Theatre)
21 Graham Street
Albert Park
Melways Ref: 2J H7
Please RSVP to George Taleporos, YDAS coordinator, george@ydas.org or
call 92673755 or SMS 0412814851
The venue is wheelchair accessible and the event will have AUSLAN
interpreters. If you have any other support needs please let us know
when registering.
16 January 2008
When: Saturday and Sunday March 15 and 16, 2008Where: Youth Affairs Council of Victoria, Level 2, 172 Flinders St Melbourne (venue is fully wheelchair accessible and has a hoist facility in the bathroom)
This weekend workshop hosted by the Youth Disability Advocacy Service is designed to assist young people to be awesome self advocates! Here are some things that you will get out of the course:
- Improved understanding of advocacy
- Increased awareness of advocacy strategies
- Increased understanding of disability rights, service standards and the law
- Improved problem-solving, communication and assertiveness skills
- Ability to apply knowledge of advocacy to a specific advocacy issue that is important to you
- Free lunch and the support that you need to participate
- The opportunity to meet other young people
Young people from rural and regional Victoria will be supported to attend with overnight accommodation in Melbourne
Places are limited, so apply early to avoid disappointment. For more information or an application form, contact George Taleporos through george@ydas.org or 03 9267 3755, SMS 0412 814 851 or Toll-Free (from outside of Melbourne) 1300 727 176
19 November 2007
The Youth Disability Advocacy Service Strategic Plan 2007- 2009 is now available by e-mailing george@ydas.org
7 July 2007
YDAS is running advocacy training in Ballarat. For more information download this Word document .
7 May 2007
YDAS is currently working on the strategic plan that will prioritise the work that we undertake over the next two years. If you would like to be involved and share your ideas please contact us before June 19, 2007.
Look at me: YDAS Photographic Exhibition
25 April 2007
To Celebrate National Youth Week YDAS hosted a photographic exhibition of young people with disabilities between 10 to 22 April 2007 at Angela Robarts Gallery, Gasworks Arts Park.
The exhibition was designed to provide an opportunity for young people with disabilities to have a stronger voice in how they are represented. YDAS spokesperson Stella Young, who is photographed knitting with a giant ball of wool said "public representations of people with disabilities are usually so predictable and boring. This exhibition is about young people with disabilities putting out images that challenge stereotypes and that show us the way we choose to be seen."
The Exhibition Is Now Available to Tour. For more information contact YDAS.
YDAS advocacy training
When: 11:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday February 10 and Sunday February 11
Where: Youth Affairs Council of Victoria, 172 Flinders Street Melbourne (young people with disabilities from rural and regional Victoria will be provided with free accommodation and travel to support them to participate)
This course is designed to increase the capacity of young people with disabilities to advocate for themselves on issues that are important to them. Here are some things that you will get out of the course:
- a better understanding of advocacy
- increased awareness of advocacy strategies
- tips on using the media to achieve advocacy outcomes
- increased understanding of disability rights, service standards and the law
- improved problem-solving, communication and assertiveness skills
- ability to apply knowledge of advocacy to a specific advocacy issue that is important to you
- free yummy lunch
- the opportunity to meet other young people with disabilities
Young people with a disability who are aged between 12 and 25 can take this course for FREE and have all of their related expenses covered!Places are limited so apply early to avoid disappointment.
For more information and for an application form, contact George Taleporos on 03 9267 3755, e-mail george@ydas.org TTY via the National Relay Service 133 677 or call Toll-Free from outside of Melbourne on 1300 727 176
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