Do you enjoy working with people?
Do you have strong organizational and administration skills?
Are you passionate about ensuring the voices of people with disabilities are heard in your community?
DPA Christchurch currently have two positions available: …
An Auckland group are looking to develop an app that helps wheelchair users to get around the city easily.
They are looking for feedback from wheelchair users on the difficulties they face and other difficulties that might not be obvious to those who don't use wheelchairs.
They have asked us…
KI TE IWI HAUA O AOTEAROA
NOTICE OF MEETING FOR DPA ANNUAL GENERAL ASSEMBLY
TO BE HELD AT
Wellington Central Library
Mezzanine Floor
65 Victoria Street
Wellington
11.00am to 4.00pm
Saturday 24 November 2018
ANNUAL GENERAL ASSEMBLY AGENDA
24…
Plastic straw ban a kick in the teeth for disabled people
The announcement of a plastic straw ban in an inner-city Auckland area is a kick in the teeth for disabled people, the Disabled Persons Assembly (DPA) says.
The plastic straw debate and the effect of banning straws on disabled people…
A decade after New Zealand told the world it would guarantee people with disabilities equal political rights, the Election Access Fund Bill a concrete step towards making those rights a reality, the Disabled Persons Assembly (DPA) says.
In 2008, New Zealand ratified the UN Convention on the Rights…
The Plan to Fix Rentals launched by Renters United today is a common sense response to the current broken rental market; its implementation would improve the lives of thousands of New Zealanders, not least those in the disability community, the Disabled Persons Assembly (DPA) says.
The rental market…
Spaces of Belonging research
Where do you feel like you
belong? Where do you feel like you don’t belong? What is it about these
places that makes you feel that way?
DPA is working with
ImagineBetter and the University of Waikato on a small Wellington-based
research project to understand…
Preliminary DPA AGM 2018 notice
This is to give you advance notice that the Disabled Persons Assembly Annual General Meeting 2018 will be held on:
Date: Saturday November 24
Place: Wellington (venue to be confirmed)
Venue, agenda and board election details will be sent out…
We welcome proposed law changes around the use of medicinal cannabis and are heartened that this is being approached as a health issue. However, DPA is disappointed that the proposed amendment does not apply to disabled people who experience chronic pain, muscle spasms, medication-induced nausea,…
We submitted our response to the Child Poverty Reduction Bill on April 4.
DPA support the intent behind the introduction of the Child Poverty Reduction Bill as we see child poverty as a major issue for New Zealand and one that requires urgent and considerable attention.
However, our concern…