Citizen Advocacy Sunbury and Districts are calling for more volunteers to help mentor and be a friend to community members facing difficult challenges.
The advocacy and mentorship program has been running for over 38 years and looks to support freely given friendships between a person with an intellectual disability and a community member.
Program coordinator David Abela said it is important for vulnerable people in the community to feel connected to other members.
“In this day and age… disability services have become a multi-billion-dollar industry, often creating a high degree of dependency on the service system,” Mr Abela said.
“It is as important as ever, that isolated, vulnerable people in our community are connected to independent individuals in their community.”
Citizen Advocacy will be holding the information and supper night at Sunbury Global Learning Centre on May 24, from 6.15 pm to 8:30 pm for people who are interested to learn more about the program.
The information night will talk about Social Role Valorisation (SRV), which is a method to improve the lives of disadvantaged and marginalised community members.
International SRV Association member John Armstrong will speak about SRV and how citizen advocacy can help people achieve the goals and aims of SRV in real life.
Program participants will also be at the information night to share their experience and what each person has gained through their relationship.
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Zoe Moffatt
