New Zealand Disability Strategy Objectives

1. Encourage and educate for a non-disabling society.
2. Ensure rights for disabled people.
3. Provide the best education for disabled people.
4. Provide opportunities in employment and economic development for disabled people.
5. Foster leadership by disabled people.
6. Foster an aware and responsive public service.
7. Create long-term support systems centred on the individual.
8. Support quality living in the community for disabled people.
9. Support lifestyle choices, recreation and culture for disabled people.
10. Collect and use relevant information about disabled people and disability issues.
11. Promote participation of disabled Māori.
12. Promote participation of disabled Pacific peoples.
13. Enable disabled children and youth to lead full and active lives.
14. Promote participation of disabled women in order to improve their quality of life.
15. Value families, whānau and people providing ongoing support.

A number of other strategies and initiatives complement the New Zealand Disability Strategy. They include the New Zealand Positive Ageing Strategy, the New Zealand Health Strategy, the Māori Health Strategy, the Pacific Health and Disability Action Plan, and the Youth Development Strategy.