Get help with the National Disability Insurance Scheme
Get help with the National Disability Insurance Scheme
Call us for free information about the law and how we can help you to get support with the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS).
Phone 1300 792 387, Monday to Friday from 8 am to 6 pm.
If you need an interpreter let us know. Read how to get help for people with hearing or speech difficulties.
If we can’t help you we can refer you to other organisations that can.
Apply for funding for your NDIS appeal
We may be able to provide free legal help if you are appealing a decision of the National Disability Insurance Agency (NDIA) to the Administrative Appeals Tribunal (AAT).
Read Apply for funding for your NDIS appeal.
Other organisations that can help
The Victorian Disability Advocacy Network (VicDAN) is a network of legal and non-legal disability advocacy organisations. It was formed when the National Disability Insurance Scheme was launched in the Barwon region of Victoria. VicDAN monitors the scheme and assists independent services in supporting Victorians to access the support they need.
VicDAN’s brochure Getting Advocacy support to help you access the National Disability Insurance Scheme (pdf, 724.85 KB) contains information about the scheme and includes a list of organisations which can help you.
Should you require an accessible version of this PDF document, please contact our Civil Law Professional Support Lawyer.
These organisations provide free individual advocacy and information for people with a disability in Victoria:
- Action on Disability within Ethnic Communities
- Association for Children with a Disability
- Assert 4 All – a division of Barwon DisAbility Resource Council
- Blind Citizens Australia
- Brain Injury Matters
- Colac Otway Region Advocacy Service (CORAS) provides advocacy support for people with a disability living in the Colac Otway and Surf Coast shires
- Communication Rights Australia provides advocacy and information services for people with communication difficulties and little or no speech
- Citizen Advocacy Sunbury and Districts Inc
- Deaf Victoria Inc
- Disability Resources Centre Inc
- Flat Out
- Gippsland Disability Advocacy Inc
- Grampians Disability Advocacy
- Leadership Plus helps people with a disability to participate in the workplace and the community
- Melbourne East Disability Advocacy (MEDA)
- Multiple Sclerosis Australia
- North-East Citizen Advocacy (NECA)
- Rights Information and Advocacy Centre Inc (RIAC) provides advocacy services for people with a disability, their families and carers
- Self Advocacy Resource Unit is an advocacy group run by people with disabilities
- Southern Disability Advocacy
- Southwest Advocacy Association
- STAR Victoria provides advocacy services for people with an intellectual disability
- VALID is an advocacy group for adults with an intellectual disability and their families
- Victorian Mental Illness Awareness Council
- Women with Disabilities Victoria
- Young People in Nursing Homes National Alliance
- Youth Disability Advocacy Service.
You can also get legal advice from these organisations. Most of the services are free: