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 | Community Information and Services/Disabilities/Disability (General)| Disability information services and general disability resources |
 Ability Inc., NSW [YOU WILL NOW LEAVE THE community.gov.au WEBSITE] | | Description | Ability Inc. helps all people with a disability who are Disability Support Pension eligible, their Parents and Carers who live in the areas of Tweed to Taree including the New England, Armidale, Tamworth, Glen Innes, Inverell. | | Author | Community Organisation - Ability Inc. |
| Advocacy Tasmania Inc. [YOU WILL NOW LEAVE THE community.gov.au WEBSITE] | | Description | Advocacy Tasmania Inc. is an independent, non-government organisation that has provided advocacy services across Tasmania to older people, and people with disabilities, since 1990.The organisation works to protect and promote the rights and interests of its clients. Older people, people with a mental health disorder and people with disabilities, their carers and relatives are provided with a free, statewide, and confidential advocacy service. | | Author | Community Organisation - Advocacy Tasmania Inc. |
| ADC Network [YOU WILL NOW LEAVE THE community.gov.au WEBSITE] | | Description | ADC Network aims to explore, research and enhance the methods by which persons classified as disabled (PCD) can fully utilise what society has to offer. The Network is an ethical Internet provider for PCDs. When fully operational it will provide an inexpensive information system, a way to become alive and part of regional, state, national and global society. | | Author | Community Organisation - ADC Network |
| Archicentre Home Services, Victoria [YOU WILL NOW LEAVE THE community.gov.au WEBSITE] | | Description | Information on a free Victorian Statewide service targeted to people over 60, people with a disability or those caring for someone with a disability. The Home inspection service will:
- Identify repairs, maintenance, modifications or general repairs;
- Access government subsidised loans for work required through Home Renovation Service;
- Provide detailed reports outlining work required and estimated cost; and
- Inspections, reports prepared by qualified retired builders. | | Author | Community Organisation - SWAIDS (Social Workers in AIDS) |
| Care Connect [YOU WILL NOW LEAVE THE community.gov.au WEBSITE] | | Description | Care Connect is a not-for-profit organisation specialising in assessment, case management and brokerage services. With funding provided by both State and Commonwealth Governments, Care Connect operates in Victoria, New South Wales, Queensland and South Australia. | | Author | Community Organisation - Care Connect Inc. |
| CARA, South Australia [YOU WILL NOW LEAVE THE community.gov.au WEBSITE] | | Description | CARA is an accommodation and respite service for adults and children with severe multiple disabilities and adults with severe physical disabilites. All CARA services are provided in the community. | | Author | Community Organisation - Community Accommodation & Respite Agency (CARA) |
| Communities@work, ACT [YOU WILL NOW LEAVE THE community.gov.au WEBSITE] | | Description | "Our purpose is to offer community services of the highest standard in order to improve the quality of life and well being of our community." Services include child care, various family services and training resources for youth. Centres are based in Tuggeranong and Weston. | | Author | Community Organisation - Communities @ Work Inc. |
| Community Connections, Victoria [YOU WILL NOW LEAVE THE community.gov.au WEBSITE] | | Description | Community Connections currently offers services ranging from public support and information services, alternative accommodation and support services to children, young people and their families, problem gambling, financial and personal counselling services, legal services, disability services and family and parenting services. | | Author | Community Organisation - Community Connections |
| Connections Project, NSW [YOU WILL NOW LEAVE THE community.gov.au WEBSITE] | | Description | The CONNECTIONS Project is a demonstration project (funded until late 2003) that is exploring the use of information technology and telecommunications through regional networks across NSW to link and support families of people with developmental disabilities. | | Author | Community Organisation - Carers NSW |
| CODA South (Carers of Disabled Adults), Queensland [YOU WILL NOW LEAVE THE community.gov.au WEBSITE] | | Description | CODA is an organisation that was established to meet the needs of families caring for an adult with a disability in their own homes. CODA South began it's respite service in 1991. We are funded by the Home and Community Care (HACC) program, and Disability Services Qld (DSQ). CODA is continuing to evolve into a service that recognises the continuing changes in lifestyles, and therefore endeavours to provide a flexible service that meets clients, carers and communities needs. | | Author | Community Organisation - CODA South |
| COMPIC [YOU WILL NOW LEAVE THE community.gov.au WEBSITE] | | Description | COMPIC is an effective communication resource created and developed in Australia. It does not rely on reading the written word, hearing a word nor speaking a word. Rather, it is a library of clear and easily understood drawings, called pictographs, which convey information. The innovative ways parents, teachers and therapists have used these pictographs, has helped to increase awareness of the benefits of visual resources. COMPIC is now recognised as being valuable in general applications throughout schools, hospitals and the community. | | Author | Commercial Organisation - COMPIC Pty Ltd |
| Department of Ageing and Disability, NSW [YOU WILL NOW LEAVE THE community.gov.au WEBSITE] | | Description | The Department of Ageing, Disability and Home Care is one of the largest human services organisations in NSW, providing support and services to more than 1 million older people, people with disabilities and their carers in NSW. | | Author | State Government - NSW Department of Ageing and Disability | | Language | A selection of publications available in Spanish, Italian, Arabic, Vietnamese, Tagalog, Chinese, Macedonian, Korean, Croatian, and Greek |
| DEAL Communication Centre, Victoria [YOU WILL NOW LEAVE THE community.gov.au WEBSITE] | | Description | DEAL Communication Centre in Melbourne provides services to people who are unable to talk, or to talk clearly, as a result of conditions such as cerebral palsy, strokes, acquired brain damage, autism, Down syndrome, or intellectual impairment - anyone whose speech is not clear enough, fluent enough or reliable enough to allow them to get across everything they want to say. | | Author | Community Organisation - DEAL Communication Centre |
| Disabilities [YOU WILL NOW LEAVE THE community.gov.au WEBSITE] | | Description | Overview of Disability programs and services delivered by the Australian Government Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs. | | Author | Australian Government - Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs |
| Disability Discrimination Legal Service, Victoria | | Description | The Disability Discrimination Legal Service is an independent, community legal centre that specialises in disability discrimination legal matters. | | Author | Community Organisation - Disability Discrimination Legal Service |
| Disability Information and Referral Centre, NSW | | Description | Disability Information & Referral Centre is under the auspice of DIRC (NSW) Inc., a non-profit organisation that uses specialist skills and resources as knowledge brokers for the provision of services to people who are disadvantaged. | | Author | Community Organisation - Disability Information and Referral Centre |
| Disability Information Service, Qld | | Description | A free, statewide information, resource and referral service. Anyone wanting to know about supports and services for people with a disability in Queensland can contact this service | | Author | State Government - Disability Services Qld |
| Disability Information, Victoria [YOU WILL NOW LEAVE THE community.gov.au WEBSITE] | | Description | Contains information on services for people with a disability in Victoria and the rest of Australia. Disability Information Victoria is operated by Vision Australia Foundation in partnership with the Association for Children with a Disability and Sausage Business Solutions, and funded by the Department of Human Services. | | Author | State Government - Department of Human Services, Victoria |
| Disability Online, Vic | | Description |
The aim of this site is to provide people with a disability, their families and carers with access to online disability related information across governments and the non-government sector, which is:
Quality assured
Reliable
Up-to-date
Locally relevant
| | Author | State Government - Disabled Person's Information |
| Disability Rights Victoria [YOU WILL NOW LEAVE THE community.gov.au WEBSITE] | | Description | "Disability Rights Victoria is an independent advocacy organisation directed by people with disability. We work with and on behalf of people with physical and multiple disability. Our aim is to ensure that all Victorians with physical and multiple disabilities enjoy the same citizenship rights and life opportunities as other members of society." | | Author | Community Organisation - Attendant Care Coalition |
| Disability Rights [YOU WILL NOW LEAVE THE community.gov.au WEBSITE] | | Description | "Information on rights and responsibilities under the Disability Discrimination Act including a brief guide; frequently asked questions; decisions by the Commission and the courts interpreting and applying the Act; information on voluntary action plans developed by service providers; and specific subject pages on access to premises, communications, Australian government programs, employment, education, and public transport". | | Author | Australian Government - Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission |
| Disability Services, Victoria [YOU WILL NOW LEAVE THE community.gov.au WEBSITE] | | Description | Disability Services Division is a portfolio of the Department of Human Services, Victoria and is responsible for funding and providing a range of supports and services for people in Victoria with intellectual, physical, sensory and dual disabilities, neurological impairments and acquired brain injury. | | Author | State Government - Victorian Department of Human Services |
| Disability Strategies Pty Ltd [YOU WILL NOW LEAVE THE community.gov.au WEBSITE] | | Description | "Disability Strategies Pty. Ltd. will examine current issues in the disability sector explored within the context of social justice and human rights. Our goal is to disseminate disability sector information on line free of charge for the benefit of the public." | | Author | Commercial Organisation - Disability Strategies Pty Ltd |
| Disability Support Pensioners Australia | | Description | The Disability Support Pensioners Australia Inc. is a support organization for young pensioners in our society. | | Author | Community Organisation - Disability Support Pensioners Australia |
| E-bility: disAbility information and resources [YOU WILL NOW LEAVE THE community.gov.au WEBSITE] | | Description | e-bility's website offers easy access and links to a wide range of information, resources, services and products of interest to people with disability, their families and carers, as well as health professionals and other service providers in the disability sector. You can also participate by contributing articles, posting messages, or submitting your web site for inclusion on our directory of disability and health links. | | Author | Community Organisation - e-bility Pty Ltd |
| Futures For Young Adults, Victoria [YOU WILL NOW LEAVE THE community.gov.au WEBSITE] | | Description | Futures for Young Adults (Futures) helps young people with disabilities in their move from school to a variety of adult options. Through the Futures program young people with disabilities are offered a range of adult activities and are supported to choose the best adult option based on their own abilities and interests. | | Author | State Government - Victorian Department of Human Services |
| HAND, Queensland [YOU WILL NOW LEAVE THE community.gov.au WEBSITE] | | Description | HAND is a not for profit organisation in north Brisbane supporting people with intellectual disability by enhancing leisure and lifestyle opportunities. The aim of the HANDS Up! Program is to assist people with an intellectual disability to develop and enhance their living skills and become more independent. | | Author | Community Organisation - HAND |
| Housing Resource and Support Service | | Description | The Housing Resource and Support Service Inc. is a community managed organisation for people with physical disabilities and who wish to live independently in the community. | | Author | Community Organisation - Housing Resource and Support Service Inc. |
| Impairment, Qld | | Description | Information about disability (impairment) discrimination, your rights and responsibilities. | | Author | State Government - Anti-Discrimination Commission Queensland |
| Information on relayed calls [YOU WILL NOW LEAVE THE community.gov.au WEBSITE] | | Description | This relay service is an Australia-wide telephone access service available to everyone at no additional charge. If you are Deaf or have a hearing or speech impairment and/or you use a TTY or a computer with a modem, you can access anyone in the wider telephone network through the relay. | | Author | Community Organisation - Australian Communication Exchange (ACE) |
| Intellectual Disability Rights Service (IDRS), NSW | | Description | The Intellectual Disability Rights Service (IDRS) is a community legal centre in New South Wales. They help people with an intellectual disability get their rights. They can provide legal advice and information for people within NSW, and also can provide education resources and publications nationally. | | Author | Community Organisation - Intellectual Disability Rights Centre |
| Jewish Care, Victoria [YOU WILL NOW LEAVE THE community.gov.au WEBSITE] | | Description | Jewish Care (Victoria) Inc was established in 2001 through the amalgamation of Jewish Community Services and Montefiore Homes for the Aged. The amalgamation was the result of a shared vision to provide the best care and services for the Jewish community. The organisation provides a vital 'whole-of-life' range of professional care, services and facilities for members of the community requiring support and assistance. | | Author | Community Organisation - Jewish Care (Victoria) Inc. |
| Karingal [YOU WILL NOW LEAVE THE community.gov.au WEBSITE] | | Description | "From the humble beginnings of a day school run by volunteers, Karingal is now a diverse organisation with over 700 staff and 100 volunteers running residential, respite, home-based and day programs for people with disabilities, from Geelong, Ocean Grove to Colac, Warrnambool and Hamilton. As well as providing care and support services to people with disabilities and their families, Karingal also runs a very successful employment services division" | | Author | Community Organisation - Karingal Inc. |
| Karinya Counselling Centre, Victoria | | Description | Karinya offers low-cost professional counselling to all people irrespective of gender, cultural background or religion including individuals, couples and families experiencing crisis and trauma, family and relationship issues, carers and individuals struggling with disability or an Autism Spectrum Disorder. Counselling centres are located in Glen Waverley, Blackburn Nth., Heathmont, Hampton Park & Traralgon. | | Author | Community Organisation - Karinya Counselling Centre Inc. |
| Life Activities [YOU WILL NOW LEAVE THE community.gov.au WEBSITE] | | Description | Life Activities is an organisation focused on achieving better outcomes in everyday living for people with a disability, or who are disadvantaged, and those who support them. Life Activities runs five basic programs as well as enhancement projects that involve community participation and education. It has offices in Newcastle and Maitland NSW. | | Author | Community Organisation - Life Activities |
| Linknet, Victoria [YOU WILL NOW LEAVE THE community.gov.au WEBSITE] | | Description | Linkages programs aim to provide individually tailored packages to assist frail or at risk older people, people with moderate to severe disabilities and their carers. Linkages programs aim to organise and coordinate community care services, to monitor and respond to changing needs and to provide support and advocacy to assist people who have complex care needs to remain living in the community. | | Author | Community Organisation - InfoXchange |
| Loddon Mallee Community Support, Victoria [YOU WILL NOW LEAVE THE community.gov.au WEBSITE] | | Description | Programs that the Community Support Division manage are:
- Supported Accommodation Assistance Program (SAAP) in Bendigo & Kyabram;
- Psychiatric Disability Support Program (PDSS) that provides housing and support to people with mental illness in Bendigo;
- Independent Living Skills Training to people who have a disability and may be at risk of homelessness or in housing crisis;
- Intensive Home based Support Program works with people with complex needs to maintain their independence in their home;
- Housing Support for the Aged Program which assists elderly formerly homeless people to maintain their public housing accommodation and maximise their independence; and
- The Community Connections Program aims to increase access to mainstream and specialist services for people with unmet complex needs who are homeless, at housing risk or living in low-cost accommodation. | | Author | Community Organisation - Loddon Mallee Housing Services |
| Macarthur Disability Services, NSW | | Description | Includes information about services and programs offered by Macarthur Disability Services and a directory of other disability services in the Macarthur area of South Western Sydney. | | Author | Community Organisation - Macarthur Disability Services |
| Meals on Wheels, NSW [YOU WILL NOW LEAVE THE community.gov.au WEBSITE] | | Description | The purpose and mission of Meals on Wheels is to provide meals, comfort, and security to elderly, infirm, and disabled members of the community, with the help of branch volunteers whose compassionate efforts are co-ordinated through a Central Office, specifically established to relieve volunteers of unnecessary administrative responsibility, enabling them to concentrate on the service they discharge. Also hosts the Secretariat of the Australian Meals on Wheels Association. | | Author | Community Organisation - NSW Meals on Wheels Association Inc. |
| Meals on Wheels, South Australia [YOU WILL NOW LEAVE THE community.gov.au WEBSITE] | | Description | The purpose and mission of Meals on Wheels (S.A.) Incorporated is to provide meals, comfort, and security to elderly, infirm, and disabled members of the community, with the help of branch volunteers whose compassionate efforts are co-ordinated through a Central Office, specifically established to relieve volunteers of unnecessary administrative responsibility, enabling them to concentrate on the service they discharge. | | Author | Community Organisation - Meals on Wheels (SA) Inc. |
| Melbourne Citymission - Children's and Disability Services, Victoria [YOU WILL NOW LEAVE THE community.gov.au WEBSITE] | | Description | Melbourne Citymission Children's Services use universal services, such as childcare and primary schools, as a platform to meet the needs of children and their families who are disadvantaged or at risk of disadvantage. The range of Disability Services provide information, education, opportunities and support that build a foundation that empower people with a disability to achieve their self-directed goals and experience active citizenship. | | Author | Community Organisation - Melbourne Citymission |
| National Ethnic Disability Alliance [YOU WILL NOW LEAVE THE community.gov.au WEBSITE] | | Description | The National Ethnic Disability Alliance (NEDA) is the national consumer-based peak body for people from a non-English speaking background (NESB) with a disability, their families and carers. The overarching aim of NEDA is to advocate at a federal level, for the rights and interests of people from a NESB with disability, their families and carers. | | Author | Peak Body - National Ethnic Disability Alliance (NEDA) |
| Office of Disability [YOU WILL NOW LEAVE THE community.gov.au WEBSITE] | | Description | The Office of Disability has a leadership role in the provision of information and the establishment of networks to address the needs of people with disabilities. The Office can provide:
advice on how to implement the Strategy;
advice on how to consult with people with disabilities including contact details for peak disability organisations and a publication entitled Inclusive Consultation;
assistance in providing information in accessible formats including a register of providers;
a range of publications designed to assist organisations to reduce discriminatory practices including Better Communication Practices, Better Physical Access and Better Employment Practices;
material such as case studies for inclusion in a wide range of training courses offered by Australian Government organisations;
assistance with raising awareness of disability issues including examples of good practice from which other organisations can learn; and
advice on disability issues. | | Author | Australian Government - Office of Disability, Department of Families, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs |
| Office of the Community Advocate, ACT [YOU WILL NOW LEAVE THE community.gov.au WEBSITE] | | Description | "The Office has a range of statutory functions and powers with respect to children and young people, and adults with a mental illness or impaired decision making ability, who require protection from abuse, exploitation or neglect. We have responsibilities to generally promote, and individually represent, the best interests of people who are not able to protect or represent their own interests." | | Author | Statutory Authority - Office of the Community Advocate, ACT | | Language | Various |
| Ozcare Caring for Our Community [YOU WILL NOW LEAVE THE community.gov.au WEBSITE] | | Description | "Ozcare is a non-profit organisation that provides a wide range of Community and Health Services in Queensland. These services are available to all members of the community. Consistent with Christian values these services are delivered compassionately and professionally." | | Author | Community Organisation - Ozcare |
| Parents with a Disability Community Project, Victoria | | Description | The Parents with a Disability Community Project is an initiative of Yooralla's Community Learning and Living Service and was undertaken to identify their needs and the gaps in services. | | Author | Community Organisation - Yooralla Community Learning and Living Service |
| Penrith Disabilities Resource Centre, NSW [YOU WILL NOW LEAVE THE community.gov.au WEBSITE] | | Description | The Centre is funded by the NSW Ageing and Disability Department to resource and support people with disabilities who live, work in, and /or utilise services based in the Penrith Local Government Area and/or surrounding areas. The site details its services and projects including a Disability Information & Referral Service and a Physical Disabilities Action Forum. It also features a Nepean area access guide providing access information to a range of commercial and public facilities around Penrith and St Marys. | | Author | Community Organisation - Penrith Disabilities Resource Centre |
| Prahran Mission, Victoria [YOU WILL NOW LEAVE THE community.gov.au WEBSITE] | | Description | Prahran Mission is a community service agency of The Uniting Church in Australia, operating primarily within the City of Stonnington, an inner city suburb of Melbourne. It assists the empowerment of, and advocates alongside, the psychiatrically disabled, the aged, children, youth, the homeless, migrants, sole parents and other economially and socially disadvantaged individuals and groups. | | Author | Community Organisation - Prahran Mission |
| Regional Disability Liaison Unit | | Description | Provides disability information and resources for the tertiary education community. | | Author | Educational Institution - Deakin University |
| Renmark Paringa Community Centre, South Australia [YOU WILL NOW LEAVE THE community.gov.au WEBSITE] | | Description | The Renmark Paringa Community Centre has a range of services available to help you : Active Employment; Centrelink Access Centre; CAMHS; Child And Youth Health; Community Church Aid; Computer Services; Continence Nurse; Disability Advocacy; Drug & Alcohol Counselling; Family & Youth Services; Immunisation; Riverland Community Legal Service; Riverland Womens Health; Riverland Community Health; Salvation Army | | Author | Community Organisation - Renmark Paringa Community Centre |
| SHOUT, ACT [YOU WILL NOW LEAVE THE community.gov.au WEBSITE] | | Description | SHOUT was established in 1981, during the International Year of the Disabled. SHOUT brings together Self-help Groups who are made up of people who share the same problem, concern or life experience. The SHOUT Office provides:
- a point of contact for clients and member organisations;
- a referral point for the general public; and
- an information and resource centre. | | Author | Community Organisation - SHOUT Inc. |
| Some handy ACT Disability Contacts | | Description | Detais of various disabiliy consumer organisations and Disability and Related Services in the ACT. | | Author | State Government - ACT Government |
| Southside Community Services, ACT -
Aged Care and Disability Services [YOU WILL NOW LEAVE THE community.gov.au WEBSITE] | | Description | The Assistance with Care and Housing for the Aged (ACHA) Program aims to assist frail older people who are homeless or at risk of losing their independence and require support to secure their accommodation options and access community-based services. The Home and Community Care (HACC) Program provides a range of services that support people who live at home and whose capacity for independent living is at risk of premature or inappropriate admission to long term residential care. The services are provided to frail-aged people and younger people with disabilities, and their carers. | | Author | Community Organisation - Southside Community Services Inc. |
| St Laurence, Victoria [YOU WILL NOW LEAVE THE community.gov.au WEBSITE] | | Description | St Laurence operates from over twenty four sites throughout the Barwon and Wimmera regions of Victoria. It provides a wide range of services which include: Residential aged care (high care/low care); Supported housing services; Disability programs; Community-based services for older people and those experiencing disadvantage; and, Employment and Recruitment Services. | | Author | Community Organisation - St Laurence |
| Suncare Community Services Inc., Queensland [YOU WILL NOW LEAVE THE community.gov.au WEBSITE] | | Description | Suncare Community Services Inc. management on the Sunshine Coast, Qld have provided services to the community such as the network of Commonwealth Carer Respite Centres, Direct Respite Services, Meals on Wheels, Maroochydore Day Respite Centre, Community Alternative Transport Service, the Carelink Centre, including Carebus mobile information units. | | Author | Community Organisation - Suncare Community Services Inc. |
| UnitingCare Ageing & Disability Service, NSW [YOU WILL NOW LEAVE THE community.gov.au WEBSITE] | | Description | The Uniting Church owns and operates:
- self care villages — over 76 sites;
- assisted care facilities (formerly called hostels) – over 58 facilities;
- high care facilities (formerly nursing homes) – over 35 facilities;
- community care packages – over 1286;
- day centres;
- assistance with care and housing;
- disabilities programs;
other home service programs; and
- a range of other parish-based services. | | Author | Community Organisation - UnitingCare |
| Villa Maria Aged Care and Disability Services, Victoria [YOU WILL NOW LEAVE THE community.gov.au WEBSITE] | | Description | The services Villa Maria provides include:
Residential aged care services that include 4 high care facilities;
Community services that range from rehabilitation services to in-home, carer and respite support services;
Disability services including early intervention, school, community residential units or residences, day activities for adults and children and independent living support programs in the community and the home. | | Author | Community Organisation - Villa Maria |
| Western Region Disability Network, Melbourne, Victoria [YOU WILL NOW LEAVE THE community.gov.au WEBSITE] | | Description | This website brings together people with a disability, their families and carers, self-help groups, government, disability
service providers, disability advocacy organisations, mainstream services and other individuals who have an interest in or who are
working with people with a disability in the Western Metropolitan Region, Victoria. Includes a discussion forum and chatrooms. | | Author | Community Organisation - InfoXchange |
| WhatsUp in Disability, Queensland [YOU WILL NOW LEAVE THE community.gov.au WEBSITE] | | Description | Whatsup in Disability' contains local area information (for (Darling Downs and Lockyer Valley) on organisations who provide specific services including, employment, accommodation, support , activities, aids, etc, to people with generic disabilities and carers. 'Whatsup in Disability' is updated continually and can also be ordered as a bi-monthly booklet in black and white format. | | Author | Community Organisation - WID Network Qld |
| Yooralla Society of Victoria [YOU WILL NOW LEAVE THE community.gov.au WEBSITE] | | Description | Yooralla is one of Victoria's oldest and largest non-profit community service providers. They assist Victorians who live with a disability acquired from birth, accident, ill health or age. They offer pre-school, school -aged and adult therapy services,
residential accommodation, respite in and out of home, equipment, advocacy, employment and recreation services. | | Author | Community Organisation - Yooralla Society of Victoria |
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