About Us

“If they don’t listen to us – then they are not going to learn what is important to us”

Susan Arthur, Positive Powerful Parent Self Advocacy Group

About Us

Voice at The Table (VATT), a project of the Self-Advocacy Resource Unit (SARU), aims to increase the number of people with cognitive disabilities sitting on boards, committees and advisory groups within government, service providers, community and mainstream organisations at a local, state and national level.

What We Do

• Consumer representative training for people with cognitive disabilities.
• Consumer representation and participation resources for use by service providers, government, community and mainstream organisations.
• Inclusive Practice training for organisations.
• Opportunities and support for consumer representatives.

Who We Are

• VATT Steering Committee is Colin Hiscoe, Francesca Lee, Sue Smith, Paul Dunn, Amy Gough, Pauline Williams, Kate O’Neill
• VATT Project Coordinator: Mike McEvoy
• VATT Project Worker: Amy Sue Lasslett
• SARU is led by AMIDA, Reinforce, Brain Injury Matters and StArt Community Art.

“People with disability have lived experience of disability and must play a central role in shaping and implementing policies, programs and services that affect them”

National Disability Strategy 2010-2020

PDF: Voice at the Table Evaluation Overview
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