YDAS - Youth Disability Advocacy Service

24/11/2025

Have your say on the future of housing and support for disabled young people 🏡

The Summer Foundation and Berry Street Yooralla want to hear from young people about what housing and support options you want to see in the future.

Who can join?
✔️ 18–35 years old
✔️ NDIS participants
✔️ Live in Victoria
✔️ Want to share your ideas about housing and support

What’s involved?
🗣️ One interview
🤝 One workshop
💻 Online or in-person options
💰 This is a paid opportunity

To find out more contact the Summer Foundation team ⬇️
Call: 03 03 8820 0213
Email: livedexperience@summerfoundation.org.au

Easy Read available.

23/11/2025

At YDAS, we’re all about empowering disabled young people and strengthening the youth sector through workshops, consultations, training and reviews, made possible by our amazing facilitators 🌟

We recently brought this brilliant crew together for a team-bonding day full of connection, skill-building and fun. With their wide range of lived experience and expertise, creating an accessible, inclusive space for them to learn and support each other was essential.

A workplace should be somewhere you want to be, a place to meet like-minded people, share your passions and help make the world a little better. We work to remove any barriers that get in the way. That’s what real access and inclusion looks like.

Want to make your workplace more accessible and inclusive? Check out how our team can support you ➡️ https://ydas.org.au/workers/training-and-services/

23/10/2025

Knowing how to take care of our friends and the people around us helps us create meaningful, connected communities 🤝

See more advice and strategies for community building driven by disability justice in Get the Go-Ahead: Caring for Our Communities at gtga.org.au

23/10/2025

You're invited to the launch of Get the Go-Ahead: Accessibility Toolkit, a new resource empowering workers to create accessible, welcoming spaces and services for disabled people.

These resources have been co-designed and co-produced by a Disabled Young Experts group.

Come along to:
🌈 Get the first look at the toolkit
🗣️ Hear from speakers on accessibility and disability justice practices in s*xual and reproductive health, gendered violence services, and community spaces.
🤝 Connect with disabled people and workers across community, health, youth, disability, and q***r spaces.

Get the Go Ahead accessibility toolkit launch

21/10/2025

There’s more than one way to communicate and no matter how we do, we all deserve to be heard.

In Caring for Our Communities, Hadasah shared faer experience of using a tablet to talk, and the impact other people’s reactions can have. Read more: gtga.org.au

01/10/2025

On school holidays and wondering if school is still right for you? You’re not alone. Many young Victorians feel the same way.

The YDAS Early School Leavers Program is here to support disabled young people who have left school or are thinking about leaving.

We offer workshops and one-on-one support to help you find the work, training, or study path that feels right for you. There’s more than one way to get where you want to go.

Find out more on our website and see if this program is right for you: https://yacvic.org.au/earlyleavers?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=earlyleavers

17/09/2025

Job opportunity for disabled young people! We’re hiring a Programs Facilitator to join the YDAS team 🙌

This casual role is perfect for a disabled young person (aged 25 or under) who’s passionate about making change and supporting others to do the same 💪

As a Programs Facilitator, you’ll:
✨ Design and deliver workshops, training and consultations
✨ Help make services more inclusive for disabled young people
✨ Bring your lived experience and ideas to the role
✨ Receive full training in how to deliver our flagship programs – including Young Leaders, Together, and Map Your Future.

You’ll get advance notice of upcoming workshops and projects, and you can choose what you’d like to be involved in.

📅 Join our team! Applications close 22 September 2025

https://www.ethicaljobs.com.au/members/yacvicej/ydas-programs-facilitator-1?locations=1

02/09/2025

Leaving school early? 📚✏️ We can help. When school is not working for you, it can be tough! You might be feeling worried, stressed or alone. But there is help available (and it’s free).

Check out our new Early School Leavers Program:

https://yacvic.org.au/earlyleavers?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=earlyleavers

24/07/2025

July marks Disability Pride Month! We’re sharing some amazing artwork, stories and resources from young people created for the YDAS Disability Pride project ❤️

Disability pride can mean being proud of who you are and embracing your disability. It can also mean feeling confident and not hiding your disability. Either way, we hope you take the time to celebrate in whatever way feels right to you 🥰🥰

We want to celebrate by sharing the following resources:

👉 Disability Pride Gallery, which contains creative works from 30 disabled young people: https://www.yacvic.org.au/ydas/resources-and-training/gallery/

👉 How to talk with disabled young people, disability terminology and accessibility in the workplace: https://www.yacvic.org.au/ydas/resources-and-training/disability-pride-resources/

24/07/2025

You asked, we answered! Check out this video made for Get the Go Ahead, where disabled young people answer questions you didn't know how to ask. For the full video, and even more resources about s*x, consent and relationships head on over to gtga.org.au

24/07/2025

Check out this video made for Get the Go Ahead, where disabled young people answer questions you didn't know how to ask. For the full video, and even more resources about s*x, consent and relationships head on over to gtga.org.au

11/07/2025

Are you a disabled young person aged 12–25? Want to tell the United Nations what matters to YOU?

Join Satara Uthayakumaran, 2025 UN Youth Rep, to share your experiences and ideas for a fairer world.

🗓 Tuesday 22 July
🕛 12–2pm AEST
📍 YDAS Boardroom (Melbourne) or Zoom
📝 Sign up by Tuesday 15 July

This is your chance to lead, speak up and be heard.

🔗 Sign up here: https://youthdisabilityadvocacyservice.snapforms.com.au/form/meet-the-australian-un-youth-representative-fJ7wYRBgxG