Disabled Persons Assembly is a non-profit organisation that represents people with disabilities and is involved in advocacy on their behalf.
As an organisation we have achieved improvements for disabled people and their families, for example:
- disability being included in the Human Rights Act;
- lobbied successfully for a Minister for Disability Issues and the implementation of the NZ Disability Strategy;
- campaigned to get teletext;
- initiated the Registry for Emergency Evacuation Situations (REES) supported by Palmerston North City Council and Civil Defence.
DPA is an umbrella organisation representing:
- People with all types of disabilities - physical, sensory, intellectual, psychiatric and neurological, acquired at any stage of life
- The families of people with disability
- Disability advocacy organisations
- Disability service providers
