Rights and advocacy: Parents: Knowing Your Rights
Gaining the Services You Need.

For most people, becoming a parent can be a stressful time when new skills, supports and networks need to be developed. Being both a parent and having a disability can be doubly challenging. You may already have faced considerable opposition and lack of support for you being a parent and but it is important that you know that people with disabilities have the same right as everyone else to become a parent and to receive appropriate supports.

Rights and Advocacy:

• Your Right to Become a Parent: Marita's Story
• Your Right to Gain Accessible Services
• How Do I Get the Services I Need?
• Strategies for Obtaining a Service
• What is Advocacy and How Can it Help
• Advocacy – Who Needs It?

  Case Study 1

  Case Study 2

• Advocates Can Help You
  
  
  
  Intro - History - Issues - Rights - Resources - Service