UnitingCare Community offers a wide range of disability support services to adults, children and young people and their families through its Disability Division.
We support people with a wide range of individual needs and abilities, including people with very high and complex support needs. UnitingCare Community Disability operates in regional centres throughout South East Queensland and also in Townsville. Our services continue to expand as the demand for quality support services grows.
The aim of UnitingCare Community’s Disability is to engage with people with disabilities and their families and friends to assist them to create lifelong opportunities in the community and to have good lives.
Disability services are available to people with a wide range of needs.To be eligible to access support through Disability a person must meet residential and citizenship qualifications and have:
We provide services for adults, children and young people and their families or carers. It is necessary for adequate funding to be available to enable support to be provided.UnitingCare Community Disability also needs to assess its ability to provide the support being requested.
If you would like more information about how we may be able to help you, please contact your closest regional service.
We assist people with disabilities to live in their own home and access community life using a range of flexible models of support. We provide Accommodation Support, Respite, Foster Care and Residential Support.
We support people with disabilities with one-to-one support to develop relationship networks and to actively participate in community life. We provide Community Linking, Post School Options and augmentative and alternative communication.
We provide a range of services to support children with a disability and their families. These include foster care, respite care, community access, in-home personal care, accommodation support, and supporting children with complex and extreme needs with specialised interventions and case management.
Ipswich and Toowoomba Employment Service is a Disability Employment Service funded by the Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations to assist people with a disability gain and maintain employment.
Crossroads offers a range of flexible and innovative support options for people with an intellectual disability.
UnitingCare Community aims to recruit, train and support foster carers who will provide safe, caring environments for children and young people under protective orders or subject to protective concerns.