Support & services

• Applying for support
  • About the Application for Support
  • Using the form
  • Forms and guides
  • Contact us
• Our services
  • Accommodation Support
  • Adult Lifestyle Support
  • Cluster Housing
  • Family and Early Childhood services
  • Family Support program
  • Friendship program
  • Home and Community Care (HACC) program
  • Innovative Support and Housing
  • Intensive Behaviour Support Teams
  • Local area coordination
  • Mental Health
    • New funding programs
    • Current funding programs
    • Publications and resources
  • Post School services
  • Resident Support program
  • Younger People in Residential Aged Care Initiative
• For service providers
  • CSTDA NMDS
  • Funding agreement
  • Increasing Service Delivery
  • Quality system
  • Services to People with a Dual Diagnosis of Intellectual Disability and Mental Illness
  • Strengthening non-government organisations
  • Training fund
  • Workforce planning
• DSQ Funding
  • Funding guidelines 2007
  • Eligibility policies and procedures
  • Notification about compensation relating to disability
    • Adult Lifestyle Support
    • Post School services
    • Contacts
• Complaints
  • Making a complaint
  • Complaints Management System
  • Complaints Management Policy – Funded Non-government Service Providers
  • External complaints agencies
  • Complaints Management Quality Committee
  • Complaints feedback
  • Contact us

Our services

Application for Support (PDF 1.2 MB)

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 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.

• Cluster Housing

  Accommodation and Lifestyle Support - Cluster Housing is a State Budget initiative in response to the high demand for suitable accommodation support for people who have an intellectual or cognitive disability and high and complex physical and/or healthcare support needs.

• 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.

• Family Support program

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

• 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.

• Innovative Support and housing

  This program provides short-term housing and intensive, specialised support for people with an intellectual disability who display complex and challenging behaviours.

• Intensive Behaviour Support Teams

  New behaviour support teams are being established in Queensland as part of Disability Services Queensland's commitment to increasing it's 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.

• Resident Support program

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

• Younger People in Residential Aged Care initiative

  The Younger People in Residential Aged Care initiative will assist 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.

About our services

• Consumer satisfaction survey 2004

  Disability Services Queensland (DSQ) sponsored the conduct of a state-wide disability services Consumer satisfaction survey in late November 2004. The survey was undertaken to gauge the level of consumer satisfaction with specialist disability services funded by the department under the Commonwealth-State/Territory Disability Agreement 2002-07.