Melbourne East Disability Advocacy is a community program that began in 1981 as Citizen Advocacy Inner East and is managed by a volunteer committee of management, independent of government and the human services sector. It is solely funded at a federal level by the Department of Social Services (DSS)

Melbourne East Disability Advocacy is a not-for-profit community program that provides advocacy support to people with intellectual disability. Support is provided directly by our professional and paid staff. It may also be provided by volunteer citizen advocates where a person with intellectual disability is matched to a dedicated volunteer, called a ‘citizen advocate'.