{"id":1879,"date":"2024-04-02T15:17:03","date_gmt":"2024-04-02T07:17:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.downsyndrome.org.au\/wa\/?page_id=1879"},"modified":"2024-08-08T13:36:51","modified_gmt":"2024-08-08T05:36:51","slug":"wa-self-advocates","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.downsyndrome.org.au\/wa\/advocacy\/wa-self-advocates\/","title":{"rendered":"WA Self Advocates"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">WA Self Advocates<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Down Syndrome WA Advisory Network &#8211; DSWAAN<br>Commenced in 2024 bringing together 9 Self Advocates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The group is participating in a leadership program, developing their skills as advocates and learning about meeting procedures and communication.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>How can you engage?<\/strong><br>Government ministers and policy advisors, advisory groups, Access and Inclusion committee and other interested parties such as the education sector, tertiary institutions can request a presentation from the DSWAAN members.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>DSWAAN members will be able to give presentations, sit as representatives on working groups and committees and provide personal reflections on living with Down syndrome in a range of topics, including, Health and Education.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Is there a fee?<\/strong><br>There is a fee to engage a DSWAAN advocate, because they are paid for their advocacy time.<br>You will be provided a quote upon request<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Who can request a presentation?<\/strong><br>To request a self advocate presentation or representation on your committee, please email ceo@downsyndromewa.org.au.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WA Self Advocates Down Syndrome WA Advisory Network &#8211; DSWAANCommenced in 2024 bringing together 9 Self Advocates. The group is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2497,"parent":1789,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"16982,19416,9756,7901,10955,17142","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"state":[],"class_list":["post-1879","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downsyndrome.org.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downsyndrome.org.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downsyndrome.org.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downsyndrome.org.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downsyndrome.org.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1879"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.downsyndrome.org.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1879\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2917,"href":"https:\/\/www.downsyndrome.org.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1879\/revisions\/2917"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downsyndrome.org.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1789"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downsyndrome.org.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downsyndrome.org.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"state","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downsyndrome.org.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/state?post=1879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}