ADEC

Action on Disability within

Ethnic Communities

About ADEC

Action on Disability within Ethnic Communities Inc strives to empower people with a disability from non-English speaking backgrounds, their carers, and families to fully participate as members of the Victorian community. ADEC is a state-wide Victorian organisation.

ADEC’s Vision

To empower people with disabilities from ethnic backgrounds, their
carers and families to fully participate as members of the
Victorian community.

ADEC’s Mission

ADEC’s Mission states that the way to achieve full citizenship is:

To assist people with disabilities from ethnic backgrounds, their carers
and families to access services and ensure that service systems
are inclusive and responsive to their needs.

Goals that enable the mission to be accomplished

To ensure ADEC addresses client needs in a nurturing and supportive manner
To create an effective service that advocates on behalf of clients of all ages, their carers and/or significant others
To ensure that ADEC delivers and operates services within an ethical framework and also within a duty of care for each client
To foster the development of services for communities across Victoria through strategic alliances
To foster research that identifies client needs, carer needs and the needs of significant others and to promote planning based on this research
To work towards building capacity in the community and within the agency

ADEC believes

Individuals and their needs should be the primary focus of human services
In the potential of each individual regardless of the complexity of issues
In working in partnership with each individual to fulfil their goals