Advocates

Adult Guardianship Services Trust

Adult Guardianship Services Trust provides advocacy, supported decision making, subsitute decision making, and Guardianship Support.

BANS

Citizen Advocacy

Please contact Rachael at Citizen Advocacy Auckland if you require assistance with advocacy around any disability issues.

Code of Rights Video – English and Te Reo

When you use a health or disability service in Aotearoa New Zealand, you have the protection of the Code of Rights.

Empowerment Trust

Empowerment Trust is a New Zealand organisation providing trauma-informed, culturally aware, evidence-based primary prevention education. It delivers workshops, training and resources that help people build safety skills, healthy relationships, consent and boundary awareness, de-escalation skills, and violence prevention strategies, and it is the New Zealand centre of Kidpower International.

Federation of Disability Information Centres

The Federation of Disability Information Centres is the national hub for a network of disability information centres across New Zealand. It promotes and supports the local provision of impartial health and disability information and resource services.

Grab Your Wheels

Grab Your Wheels is a New Zealand accessible travel platform run by a family sharing wheelchair-accessible discoveries, reviews, and travel tips around Aotearoa. Its content focuses on helping make accessible travel more practical and more visible.

Health and Disability Advocacy

The Nationwide Health and Disability Advocacy Service is a free independent service that helps people understand their rights and raise concerns about health and disability services. It supports complaints, rights education, and resolution processes.

Health and Disability Commissioner

The Health and Disability Commissioner promotes and protects the rights of people using health and disability services in New Zealand. It handles complaints, provides rights information, and works to improve accountability and service quality.

Mana Mokopuna – Children and Young People’s Commission

Mana Mokopuna – Children and Young People’s Commission advocates for the rights, wellbeing, and interests of children and young people in Aotearoa.

Nationwide Health and Disability Advocacy Service

People First

Personal Advocacy and Safeguarding Adults Trust (PASAT)

Spectrum Care

Spectrum Care is one of New Zealand’s largest disability support providers and offers services across Auckland. It supports disabled people and their whānau with services including community support, respite and planned breaks, advocacy, transition support, and employment support, with a strong emphasis on choice, freedom, and independence.