Bring your lived experience to Yooralla – Join YCPAC

Yooralla’s Community Partnership Advisory Committee (YCPAC) brings the voices and perspective of people with lived experience of disability, to support the design and delivery of Yooralla’s services – to ensure they reflect the diverse needs and wants of our community.  

As part of YCPAC, members review and provide guidance to Yooralla’s Board on various strategic and operational matters. This includes providing feedback and advice on relevant decisions that are brought to YCPAC members before Yooralla Board meetings. Recent examples include: 

• Feedback on a paper in support of The Voice 
• Employment Coach for Customised Employment, and  
• In principle changes to Supported Employee Wages. 

YCPAC also provides the opportunity for constructive dialogue between Yooralla and clients, families and supporters on current matters, and when co-designing and implementing change. The input of the YCPAC members is vital in Yooralla’s decision making, providing valuable review of issues key to service delivery and improvement. 

Current members of YCPAC include clients, family representatives and carers. We currently have two positions available for people in the wider disability community (those who are not Yooralla clients or their family members). 

YCPAC meets bi-monthly, five times per year.  Each meeting is 90 minutes duration. Meetings can be attended either in person at Yooralla’s Head Office - 595 Collins Street, Melbourne or online.  

Persons with disability will be renumerated for their participation. 

Applications are now open to join YCPAC

We are seeking expressions of interest to join YCPAC from: 

• Yooralla clients and/or their family members – three vacancies
• Members of Victorian disability community (i.e. who are not Yooralla clients or family members) – two vacancies.

If you (or someone you know) are committed to the provision of quality, safe and accessible support services for people with disability, please consider applying.

Applications close on November 2023