Free resources

Tools to support your self-advocacy journey

VoiceAbility provides free guides, planning tools, templates, and regulation techniques to help you understand your rights, plan your goals, and navigate important conversations with confidence.

Human rights guides

Understand your rights across all life areas

Plain-language guides covering workplace, housing, healthcare, education, justice, and digital access. Learn what rights you have and how to protect them.

Workplace rights guide
Housing rights guide
Healthcare rights guide
Education rights guide
Justice rights guide
Digital access rights guide
Planning tools

Plan your self-advocacy journey

Use practical worksheets and checklists to set goals, track progress, and build confidence in your self-advocacy.

Action Plan tool for disability self-advocacy
Goal Planner worksheet for personal objectives
Appointment Checklist for healthcare and service visits
Confidence Ruler tool for measuring self-advocacy readiness
Service Map worksheet for understanding available supports
Strengths Worksheet for identifying personal capabilities
Self-advocacy templates

Communicate your needs with confidence

Ready-to-use templates designed to help you file complaints, prepare phone calls, plan escalations, and create safety plans when advocating for your rights.

Complaint Template
Phone Script
Escalation Map
Safety Plan
Manage stress

Simple techniques for emotional well-being

Learn practical regulation methods you can use anytime to manage anxiety and find calm when you need it most.

444 Breathing technique
54321 Grounding technique
Weighted Hands technique
Movement Reset technique
Emotional regulation practice
Well-being technique in action

Help people with disabilities advocate for themselves

Become a VoiceAbility facilitator and support individuals in developing self-advocacy skills and asserting their human rights across Sydney.