The ways in which these organisations and government bodies support DADAA is outlined below

Australia Council for the Arts

OZCO provides Key Organisational funding to DADAA, supporting the organisation’s statewide Arts Development and Community Cultural Development programs.

ARTSWA
Provides DADAA with multi-year program funding, supporting access for Western Australians with disabilities and/or mental illness to access a tatewide program of Regional and Arts Development projects, workshops and audience development programs.

Disability Services Commission

DADAA is an endorsed provider of ATE (Alternatives to Employment) and PSO (Post School Options) programs. In addition, DADAA works with DSC through a unique partnership designed to provide social and cultural inclusion opportunities for residents of DSC’s Accommodation Services Directorate via The Lost Generation project.

Rio Tinto WA Future Fund
Works in partnership with DADAA, Healthway and UWA (through the Health Evaluation Promotion Unit) to support the Disseminate projec, and evaluation and publishing project that will result in the development of new resources in Arts and Health.

Department of Health
DADAA is an endorsed provider of Mental Health services, programs supported by the WA Department of Health to ensure access to Arts Development programs for people with persistent levels of mental illness living across the Swan region.

HaCC (Home & Community Care)
DADAA is a pre-qualified provider of HaCC services in the Swan and Gingin shires. Social support and centr- based day programs are offered in Midland, Lancelin, Gingin, Bindoon and the Northern suburbs of Perth, supporting people who are ageing and people with mental illness to access the cultural life of their communities.

ALCOA Foundation
The ALCOA Foundation provided DADAA with financial support to initiate a donations account with the WA Community Foundation, paving the way for DADAAWA to work over time with the WACF to build a capital base, that will ensure access to non-government funding that will extend the cultural participation options available to Western Australians with disabilities and over time provide professional development support to professional WA artists.

Lotterywest
Lotterywest has supported DADAA’s statewide community arts program for over 12 years, providing arts development opportunities for thousands of Western Australians with disabilities and/or mental illness in the arts.

Healthway
Healthway has provided DADAA with multi-year program funding for many years, supporting DADAA’s core Arts Development programs, in particular mental health initiatives including DADAA’s Freight Gallery and the Arts Inside Hostel program. DADAA works with Healthway to promote the Heart Foundation’s health messaging: Disability No Limits Be Active Everyday.

Department of Education and Training
The WA Department of Education and Training underpins access to accredited and non-accredited training programs for Western Australians with Disabilities through the GATE funding programs and provided pilot funding for the development of two of DADAA’s core programs: the Freight Gallery and Studio program, and DADAA’s Ageing and Disability programs.

In addition The Department of Education and Training supports DADAA’s ARTLINK children’s programs across metropolitan Perth, ensuring that children with disabilities and their siblings have ongoing access to arts development opportunities, through engagement with professional WA artists.

OPTIMA Press

Has provided DADAAA with full print sponsorship for over six years, ensuring that people with disabilities and/or mental illness with an interest in the arts have access to high-quality marketing and information material. DADAA continues to be proud of its strong working relationship with Optima Press, without whom we would be unable to produce high-quality marketing and information resources.

Macquarie Bank
Has provided DADAA with new computer systems, to underpin many of its core administration, communication and graphic design functions, ensuring that the organisation is equipped to fulfill its role as the key Arts and Disability organisation in WA.

Country Arts WA

Country Arts WA, has provided DADAA with funding over the next two years to underpin the two key regional Arts and Disability positions, in Bunbury and Derby, ensuring that DADAA has people on the ground in regional WA to underpin key regional arts and disability programs at the local level in the South West and Kimberly Region. Support from Country Arts WA is critical in ensuring that DADAAWA is able to employ local people in regional WA and we thank them for their support.

The Regional Arts Fund is an Australian Government initiative supporting the arts in regional, remote and very remote/isolated Australia. The program is delivered in partnership with Country Arts WA.

Arts Access Australia
Is the peak body for arts and disability and arts and disadvantaged in Australia. Arts Access Australia works at a national level to achieve equal access to and representation in the arts for Australians experiencing disabilities.

AAA is a member based organisation. DADAA is the Western Australian member of AAA, working collaboratively to use the arts to create positive social change in the lives of individuals, their families, their  communities  and society  as a whole.

Key Local Government Partners

DADAA works in close partnership with 46 WA communities, key Local Government partners include the Cities of Fremantle, Swan, Bunbury, Albany and Rickingham, the Town of Lancelin, and the Shires of Gingin, Kalamunda, Mundaring and Fitzroy Crossing.

Partnership Approach

DADAA would in particular acknowledge the Cities of Fremantle and Swan who provide DADAA with subsidised venue rental and, in addition, work in close partnership with DADAA to extend the cultural participation opportunities available to local people with disabilities.

In general, DADAA's collaborative approach promotes the development of cross-sector, cross-government partnerships within target communities, resulting in a sustainable approach to Arts and Disability practice.

DADAA works with local governments, with key local Health, Arts, Disability and Training organisations and consumers of disability and mental health services to:

• Explore and identify potential partners across targeted WA communities;
• Establish agreed aims of sub projects against the stated needs and directions of communities;
• Implement project governance structures;
• Develop strategies through which to mobilize project resources at the local level;
• Establish and reinforce accountability procedures;
• Plan and implement review arrangements;
• Undertake planning for the longer term life of the project;
• Build institutional capacity within the eight targeted communities to sustain the project beyond the five year period of the project;
• Profile the sustainable development achievements in partnership action.
  

The partnering process results in:

• Strong sense of local ownership and self determination over projects, increased levels of local collaboration, resource sharing;
• Development of strategic links between partners and project stakeholders who together bring power, resources and influence;
  

• Tangible results for disparate communities of people with disabilities and or mental illness and their carers including:   New respite option  Pathways through which to achieve integration and social participation at the local level;
• Increased levels of inclusive local programming and services;
• Pathways to skills development and self employment;
• Avenues through which to collaborate at decision making and services planning levels;
• Flexible and natural support structures;
• Increased opportunities through which to build and demonstrate individual capacities.