Example: identify and document the interrelationships between the priorities and rights of individual, the family, the community and society

Marta is a community support worker who is volunteering her time to facilitate a group of local people who want to improve physical access in the community. The group that she is supporting consists of people with a disability and their families and carers, who are tired of the lack of access due to insufficient or broken footpaths and ramps.

Marta has chaired a meeting to document the group’s experiences and helping them to identify clear goals. While the group would love a ramp to every store and public building and smooth, clear footpaths on every street, Marta has helped them realise the economic and political barriers in place. The group decides to focus on campaigning to get a footpath down to the local beach. Most people in the community have never considered that people with a disability cannot access the beach, so Marta suggests that they begin with an awareness campaign, as well as a meeting with a local councillor to discuss her position and to hear her ideas.