Human Rights Workshop

Following the success of our first workshop, HR&SS is running a second 'Building human rights practice in the disability sector' workshop in conjunction with the Victorian Equal Opportunity and Human Rights Commission. If you missed the first workshop and your organisation would like to implement a human rights-based approach to service delivery, register now - places are limited! More information, including how to register can be found here...

RMIT and La Trobe University begin human rights audit

RMIT and La Trobe University want to hear about your everyday experiences of human rights. As HR&SS is a human rights-based organisation, we'd like to encourage all of our consumers who can spare the time to participate in this important audit. If you would like to know more, check the details here.

HR&SS Chair writes for Probono Australia

Chair of HR&SS, Tricia Malowney is currently writing a series of opinion pieces for Probono Australia. We are proud of Tricia's contribution to the community's understanding of the issues which people with disabilities face every day. 

You can read her articles on the Probono Australia website:

• Making sure Every Australian Counts in the National Disability Insurance Scheme
• Addressing violence against all women
• Employment for people with disabilities - everybody's business, including NFPs

'My Amazing Life' project kicks off with Optus Community Grants

As part of their commitment to help disengaged and disadvantaged youth, Optus Community Grants has funded an exciting new project with HR&SS to provide information and support to young people with disabilities to help them live independently.

                                                                           You can see the full project details here...

"Return to HR&SS" keyrings

HR&SS, with the support of Cubic Promote, are introducing key rings that will allow our consumers and members to have their keys returned safely if lost, without putting their own contact details on their keys. Watch this space for more details soon...

Newsletter moving to email

HR&SS Newsletter will soon be moving to email! 

We will be sending out our newsletter monthly in 2012 to keep you even more up to date. To make this possible, we will be changing to an email based newsletter - keep an eye out for more details shortly.