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What is STAR Victoria ?
STAR is unique in Victoria in that it brings together people concerned with all aspects of intellectual disability, and works to support the interests and rights of people with an intellectual disability and their families throughout all their lives .
STAR is an independent community organisation that advocates on a statewide basis for the rights of people with an intellectual disability and their families.
STAR believes all people with intellectual disability are entitled to grow up in a family and to live and participate fully in their communities as valued citizens.
STAR works to achieve greater community awareness, attitude change and government and systemic responsiveness to the needs of people with an intellectual disability, to enable full inclusion, equity, and participation. All of STAR's advocacy work has a clear value base of social justice and inclusion.
STAR is valued in Victoria and nationally, and it's assistance, views and input are sought from a diverse range of individuals, and organisations both government and non-government.
STAR has a proud noteworthy 36 year history of empowering and resourcing people with an intellectual disability, their families and supporters, to speak up, be heard, and to challenge the barriers that prevent people with a disability from living a lifestyle of choice. Believing unequivocally in the right of all people with an intellectual disability to live and participate in the community has always been the cornerstone of STAR's work.
Throughout STAR's long, active history we have maintained a commitment to using the Social Model of defining disability. When we use the Social Model of defining disability, we acknowledge that no one can know the full possibilities of any person's life and a diagnostic label is not in itself helpful in defining the supports an individual may require. In all our work we aim to highlight and affirm that it is the barriers created by society that are 'disabling' to an individual, and that it is our collective responsibility to remove these barriers.
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All people have
The same rights
The same value
The same worth
And
Are entitled to a
decent life in the community
CONTACT:
STAR VICTORIA INC.
2nd floor, Ross House
247 Flinders Lane
Melbourne 3000
PHONE: 03 9650 2730
FAX: 03 9650 6972
EMAIL: info@starvictoria.org.au
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