Victorian Council of Deaf People Inc (VCOD) was established in 1982 as result of an identified need for deaf people to represent deaf people in all areas of public life.
Since that time VCOD has grown to become the peak deaf organisation of deaf people in Victoria. We are now a statewide government-funded organisation, funded through the Department of Human Services and Department of Planning and Community Development.
VCOD is an advocacy and information service provider and is affiliated with Deaf Australia.
The philosophy behind VCOD is that deaf people have an equal right to take part in and have access to all areas of community life and to do so with great pride as deaf individual.
The role of VCOD is to be accountable and responsive to the needs and feelings of deaf people living in Victoria. VCOD achieves this by consulting widely within the deaf and wider hearing communities to provide advocacy, advice, support, and information services.
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Notice of Special General Meeting
April 7, 2011
Notice is hereby given that pursuant to Rule 11.1 of the Council,a Special General Meeting of Victorian Council of Deaf People Inc. will be held at Fenton Hall on Thursday 28th April 2011 at 7.00 pm.
BUSINESS Special Business 1. The Board, as agreed in the Annual General Meeting of 2010, presents the revised Constitution for approval.
2 .The Board proposes the motion to change the name of “Victorian Council of Deaf People Incorporated” to “Deaf Victoria Incorporated”.
VCOD is currently in discussions with Victoria Police to improve their disability action plan (DAP). We're focusing on the Dead/Hard of Hearing + others (e.g. Deaf/HoH adolescents, Deaf/HoH with mental health, Deafblind).
We have put up a Youtube clip which can be viewed below:
Complete with an english version on Facebook, asking people to share their stories with us in order to provide case studies, recommendations and explanations of terms commonly used (I.e Auslan, culture). VCOD will be going through the entire policy and recommending adjustments where we think they should be made. The case studies will be used to educate the policing community why these adustments are necessary.
We would like to ask you to guve us your stories, recommendations, feedback and to spread the word amongst your networks. I am the primary worker on this and I am happy to discuss this face to face.
Please do not hestitate to contact me with any questions or feedback
You may.........Every donation made to VCOD helps us promote awareness, education and information to the general community. We will mention you in our newsletters.
