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    • Home and Community Care Triennial Plan 2008-2011
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  • Post School services
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  • Resident Support program
  • Supporting Families — Family Support Program
  • Support for older carers initiative
    • Respite support
    • Transitioning to accommodation support arrangements
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  • Younger People in Residential Aged Care Initiative
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  • Funding guidelines 2007
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Our services

Application for Support

Delivering quality services and building supportive communities (PDF 384 KB)

Disability Services Queensland helps people with a disability and their families to access the support and services they need as they move through the different stages of their life.

• Accommodation Support

  Our residential care officers provide support to more than 570 adults, primarily with an intellectual disability or autism, living in department-operated houses and units throughout Queensland.

• Adult and Community Support Services

  Adult and Community Support Services are a range of professional and specialist services that are planned to meet the needs of families supporting an individual with a disability.

• Adult Lifestyle Support program (ALSP)

  The Adult Lifestyle Support Program (ALSP) contributes funding to purchase individualised needs based support to approved adults with a disability. Support may include in-home personal care and household management and assistance to build and strengthen social relationships and increase participation in the community. The funding also provides for the purchase of necessary aids and equipment.

• Disability information service

  A free, statewide disability information and resource service provided by Disability Services Queensland.

• Family and Early Childhood services

  Disability Services Queensland’s Family and Early Childhood Services supports families with a child aged up to six years who has or is at risk of a significant developmental delay. With the support and information provided through the service, families are able to strengthen their knowledge, skills and resources, giving them a better opportunity to help promote their child’s developmental learning and inclusion in the local community.

• Friendship program

  Encourages friendships between people with a disability and other community members.

• Home and Community Care (HACC) program

  The Home and Community Care Program is a Commonwealth/state joint funded program. HACC is a key provider of community care services to frail aged people and younger people with a disability and their carers. The program provides funding for basic maintenance and support services for people who live at home and whose capacity for independent living puts them at risk of premature or inappropriate admission to long term residential care.

• Housing and Support Program

  The Housing and Support Program supports people with a psychiatric disability to transition from Queensland Health extended treatment mental health facilities or acute care and integrate back into their communities.

• Intensive Behaviour Support Teams

  New behaviour support teams are being established in Queensland as part of Disability Services Queensland's commitment to increasing its response to the needs of adults with complex support needs.

• Local area coordination

  Our local area coordinators and support facilitators work with people with a disability and their families to help them find the support they need within their local community.

• Mental Health in Disability Services Queensland

  In September 2007, Machinery of Government changes resulted in Disability Services Queensland assuming primary responsibility for funding, developing and implementing and monitoring of all existing and new mental health programs delivered through non-government service providers.

• Post School program

  Helping young people with a disability to make the transition from school to adult life and plan to achieve future goals.

• Project 300

  The Project 300 Program supports people with a psychiatric disability to transition from Queensland Health extended treatment facilities and integrate back into their communities.

• Purpose Designed Housing

  Purpose Designed Housing is a three-stage response to the high demand for affordable accommodation suitable for people who have an intellectual disability and complex support needs.

• Young Adults Exiting the Care of the State (YACS)

  The young Adults Exiting the Care of the State Program is administered as part of the Adult Lifestyle Support Program. It provides individualised support for young adults exiting the care of the state, helping them to access community life and develop and maintain community living arrangements.

• Resident Support program

  An initiative to support people with a disability who live in private residential services such as hostels and boarding houses.

• Respite services

  At Disability Services Queensland, we provide short-term stays for adults and children with an intellectual disability who are usually cared for by families or other voluntary carers.

• Spinal Cord Injuries Response Initiative

  The Spinal Injuries Association is the approved non-government service provider for the statewide implementation of the Spinal Cord Injuries Response initiative.

  The Department of Communities (Disability, HACC and Community Mental Health Services) funds the association to develop and provide essential personal care support for people with a spinal cord injury who are being discharged from the Spinal Injuries Unit at the Princess Alexandra Hospital.

• Supporting Families — Family Support Program

  Strengthening the capacity of families to care for family members with a disability, as well as for each other.

• Support for older carers initiative

  To acknowledge the long-standing contribution of older carers to those they care for and to the community, additional respite services have been established to specifically cater for older carers and their family members.

• Younger People in Residential Aged Care initiative

  The Younger People in Residential Aged Care initiative assists younger people with a disability in residential aged care to move to more appropriate accommodation, divert younger people who are at risk of admission to residential aged care, and provide disability support for younger people who remain in residential aged care.

Last reviewed: 23 September 2009