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Protocols and guidelines

OPA has developed and signed protocols and memorandums of understanding with a number of organisations to clarify and help both organisations perform their respective functions in a way which effectively promotes the rights of people with disability.

Protocols

  • Ambulance Victoria and OPA
  • Community Visitors Program and Health Services Regulator Operational Protocol
  • Disability Services Commissioner, OPA and the Community Visitors Board
  • Independent Mental Health Advocacy and OPA
  • Mental Health Complaints Commissioner and OPA
  • State Trustees Limited and OPA
  • St Vincent’s Hospital and OPA (concerning the Severe Substance Dependence Treatment Act 2010)

Memorandums of Understanding

  • Aboriginal Community Elders Services (ACES) and OPA
  • Corrections Victoria and OPA
  • DHHS, Victorian Aboriginal Child Care Agency, Bendigo and District Aboriginal Co-operative and OPA
  • National Disability Insurance Agency and OPA
  • Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages and OPA
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