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Story: Health advocacy and self-help

Disability advocacy

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The Crippled Children Society (now CCS Disability Action) was founded in 1935 to provide advocacy and support services for disabled children. As this clip shows, the society provided resources so disabled children could receive therapeutic treatment.

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Archives New Zealand - Te Rua Mahara o te Kāwanatanga

Reference: Weekly Review 367. National Film Unit, 1948

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Rosemary Du Plessis and Anne Scott, Health advocacy and self-help – Development of advocacy and self-help, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/video/28041/disability-advocacy (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Rosemary Du Plessis and Anne Scott, published 5 April 2011.