SERVICES LIST
(Follow this link for the Services Map and click on any program in the table for a full description of the service)
| EXTENDED AGED CARE at HOME | POST SCHOOL SERVICES |
| MULTICULTURAL ACCESS SERVICES |
Redlynch Respite Centre provides afternoon, evening and weekend centre-based respite for the frail elderly and younger people with disabilities. The centre operates on the following days:
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Tuesday |
1 pm - 7 pm |
Frail aged |
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Thursday |
1 pm - 7 pm |
Frail aged |
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Friday |
1 pm - 7 pm |
Young disabled |
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Saturday |
11 am - 5 pm |
Frail aged |
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1st Sunday of the month |
11 am - 5 pm |
Young disabled |
Gordonvale Respite Centre provides afternoon and evening centre-based respite for the frail elderly and younger people with disabilities. The centre operates on the following days:
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Monday |
1 pm - 7 pm |
Young disabled |
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Tuesday |
1 pm - 7 pm |
Frail aged |
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Wednesday |
1 pm - 7 pm |
Frail aged |
Mareeba Respite Centre provides afternoon and evening centre-based respite for young people with disabilities. The centre operates on the following days:
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Wednesday |
1 pm - 7 pm |
Young disabled |
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Friday |
1 pm - 7 pm |
Young disabled |
Cairns Recreation & Social Club provides day centre-based respite for younger people with disabilities. The program operates from the Redlynch Respite Centre on:
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Monday |
10 am - 2 pm |
Young disabled |
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Tuesday |
10 am - 2 pm |
Young disabled |
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Transport to and from home.
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In house, cooked, nutritious meals and refreshments.
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Encouragement to participate in the daily activities.
Funded by
This program provides a high quality of care and support to frail older people, enabling them to continue living independently in their own home. This is achieved by providing a flexible responsive and co-ordinated individualised package of services. We provide a care plan, in consultation with and agreed by the client that is flexible and fits in with the needs of daily activities of the client.
Areas covered are co-ordinated by Team Leaders based in:
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Mareeba - covering the Atherton Tablelands
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Thursday Island - covering the
Funded by Department of Health and Ageing
Extended Aged Care at Home (EACH) packages are individually planned and coordinated packages of care, tailored to help older Australians remain living in their own homes. They have been developed to provide for the complex care needs of older people.
EACH packages are very flexible and are designed to help with individual care needs. Generally a person who requires high level care could be eligible for an EACH package, and the types of services that may be provided as part of an EACH include:
- Registered nursing care;
- Care by an allied health professional such as physiotherapist, podiatrist or other type of allied health care;
- Personal care;
- Transport to appointments;
- Social support;
- Home help; and
- Assistance with oxygen and/or enteral feeding.
Funded by Department of Health and Ageing
Funded by Department of Health and Ageing
Major home modifications assistance for people with disabilities, frail elderly people and carers, throughout Innisfail,
We can help with information, plans and specifications, budget estimates, project management and financial assistance for approved applicants when funding is available.
Jointly managed with Department of Housing and funded by Home and Community Care Program
Funded by
This service aims to remove some of the practical housing related difficulties experienced by older people and people with a disability who wish to remain living in their own home. The service provides free information, advice and assistance in regard to home maintenance, repairs, modifications and security to people living in their own homes and private rental, who are in receipt of an Age or Disability Pension.
Funded by Department of Housing
The program provides a responsive, inclusive and flexible service for people who have a dual diagnosis (intellectual disability and a coexisting mental illness).
Our purpose is to develop a "person-centred" support service which includes best practice, continuity of care and access to the full spectrum of appropriate services through a proactive collaborative partnership with Disability Services Queensland, Integrated Mental Health Program,
Funded by Disability Services
The program provides care and support for people with disabilities enabling them to remain living independently in their own home (either the family home or a home of their choice) and assists them to access community life.
An application for Lifestyle Support can be obtained from Disability Services Queensland. The Disability Services Queensland registration enables all people with disabilities to register their needs for services or support.
People who have a disability, which results from an intellectual, physical, sensory, cognitive, neurological or psychiatric impairment, or a combination of these impairments are eligible to apply.
Funded by Disability Services
The aim of this program is to support frail older people, younger people with disabilities and their carers of culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds by providing information and referral, enabling them to access Home and Community Care services. We also provide Cross-cultural Awareness Training to Service Providers to enhance their cross-cultural communication skills and become more aware of and sensitive to ones own behaviour and attitudes.
Funded by
This program is an initiative of St John's Community Care Ltd to maintain frequent contact with Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) clients to ensure they receive updated and appropriate information/services. Clients attend a regular Multicultural Morning Tea to reduce social isolation and become more familiar with
An initiative of
This program provides individual needs-based support and community access to people with a psychiatric disability in the
Support services are provided in accordance with the individuals identified needs, in a way that reflects the conditions of every day life valued by the community. Integrated Mental Health provides clinical support.
Funded by Disability Services
This program is targeted at people with severe disabilities who are 18 years of age by 31 January in the year they enter the program after exiting special school or specialised education programs and/or services. We aim to enable the young person with a disability to experience a range of positive options in progressing to adulthood.
Funded by Disability Services
The program provides community support for people with a psychiatric disability who wish to be at home in their own community. Many of the clients have been in an institution for many years. The components of support for Project 300 clients are Mental Health clinical support, affordable housing and disability support.
Lifestyle Support Workers are employed to work with clients and families to provide one to one support for the individuals; build relationships with individuals daily or on a regular basis by providing agreed supports.
Funded by Disability Services
This program provides Saturday afternoon Respite for two different age groups 9-12 and 13-16 years old. Young people are accompanied by Support Workers to access community recreation and leisure activities. In addition the program offers holiday activities in the Mareeba area.
Funded by Disability Services
The service provides assistance to HACC eligible clients from culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) backgrounds that require assistance in order to meet their need for social contact and/or accompaniment in order to participate in community life.
Funded by
Funded by
The program provides 24-hour care and support for people who have a disability and provides assistance with:
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Becoming involved with others in the community in order to experience a variety of activities and relationships, which are meaningful and similar to other community members of a similar age and cultural background.
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Developing and maintaining recreational interests, participating in recreational and social groups or clubs and making community contacts relating to leisure goals and interests.
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Household management e.g. cooking, laundry, management of household finances and assistance with using local facilities and services - banks and shops.
Funded by Disability Services
Twilight and Overnight Care caters specifically for people who have dementia, are frail and elderly and from diverse ethnic backgrounds. It enables clients to spend a pleasant evening with friends, with the opportunity to stay overnight, if required. A qualified nurse is on duty overnight.
The program allows time for carers to have time for themselves, while the person attending the centre can enjoy the break by participating in various activities and making some new friends.
Funded by National Respite for Carers Program
Two houses accommodating up to ten young people with high and complex care/disability needs and who are at risk of entering an aged care facility. Residents receive 24 hour care from qualified staff. It is anticipated that living in these houses will give the young people the opportunity to live as normal a life as possible.
Funded by Disability Services Queensland