Individuals seeking assistance

Aboriginal Literacy Foundation

The Aboriginal Literacy Foundation seeks to transform the lives of Indigenous children by focusing on literacy and numeracy education. Working in collaboration with local communities and partners, we develop literacy skills with Indigenous children so that they can succeed in school and beyond. The Aboriginal Literacy Foundation is an independent not for profit, charitable organisation that relies on the generous support of the community to achieve its work.

Abundance College Inc

Abundance College Inc. is a not-for-profit Incorporated Association registered in Queensland to provide training to post-school leavers from 15 years of age identified with Autism Spectrum Disorder so they can work and live as independently as possible.

Acacia Ridge Community Support Inc

ARCSI is a Community Centre servicing Acacia Ridge and surrounding suburbs. ARCSI provides Tenancy Advice Services, Emergency Relief, English. Citizenship classes as well as a range of community development programs

Access Community Housing Company Ltd

25 years young Access Community Housing Company is a Not for Profit Tier 2 provider under the National Regulatory System. We have a portfolio of approx. 570 properties and assist individuals and families who are on the Dept of Housing waitlist to find appropriate housing. We endeavour to improve people's lives by helping families and individuals to attain suitable housing and assisting them to sustain it. Our values - Respect, Integrity, People Focussed, Equity and Accountability are the foundations of our work and influence every decision and action we take.

Access Community Services

Settlement for Refugees and Asylum Seekers Mental Health support

Access Community Services - Gateway Services

Access Community Services - Goodna

Access Community Services - Multicultural Sports Club

An initiative of Access Community Services Ltd, the MSC provides Entry Level Sports and Recreation Programs designed on a needs basis for community groups who are at risk of or experience barriers to participation in sport. Our programs are low-cost, culturally appropriate and inclusive, designed to increase participation in activity to support a healthy mind, body and community connection.

Access Housing

We are a community housing organisation providing emotional and practical support to families of women and children who have experienced homelessness and are now housed under the Way Home Program, which is funded by Sisters Of St John Of God.

Access Recreation

We are a not for profit disability support service supporting children and adults in our community

Accordwest

Community based service which aims to provide individuals and families who may be marginalised with the opportunities and resources to be part of the community they live. This includes homelessness, community and transitional housing, prison reintegration services, out of home care, foster care and family support services including substance, reconnect, children and parenting support, tenancy advice and financial counselling.

ACON Health

ACON Health provides Counselling and Care coordination services to members of the LGBTIQ+ community and people living with HIV.

Acquired Brain Injury Services

We embrace the unique needs of people with an Acquired Brain Injury and seek to be at the forefront of service provision, responding to clients’ needs to achieve equality of opportunities, empowerment and independence in all aspects of life.

Acres And Acres Co-op

We are a community garden Co-op, and hope to supply food in the time of need. Through the Bush fires in the Upper Murray members have been consistently active in fundraising, supplying goods and services, watertanks, showers, generators, fuel, food, water, gift vouchers, and helping people connect with the services they need.

ACT Down Syndrome Association

The ACT Down Syndrome Association is a self help organisation formed in 1987 by a group of interested parents with a vision to form a resourceful, supportive and beneficial association for members with Down syndrome and their families living in the ACT and surrounding regions.
The core focus of the Association is to support families with a member who has Down syndrome, promote improvements in the quality of life in people with Down syndrome, and to stimulate within the wider community an awareness of the abilities and needs of people with Down syndrome

Act for Kids - BNIFS - Kedron

Brisbane North Intensive Family Support Program

Act for Kids - BNIFS - West Burleigh

Family and children's support service

Act for Kids - Mackay

Family and Child Connect

Family and Child Connect can help with a range of family and parenting challenges. We’ll talk with you about your situation and work out the type of support you might find helpful.

We can connect you to local services that can help with:

managing your child’s behaviour (e.g. skipping school, running away from home, homework, tantrums)
building better family relationships
stopping any violence at home
budgeting and managing money
alcohol, drug or gambling problems
housing, health care or access to other community or government services.
You can use this service as often as you need. There is no limit and no cost.

Every family is different so when you speak with us you will get advice and support specific to your situation.

Act for Kids - Maryborough

Act for Kids - Rockhampton

Our Purpose
To prevent and treat child abuse and neglect.
Our Vision
All kids have a safe and happy childhood, free from abuse and neglect.
Our Values
We are a professional, ethical team who is caring, courageous and collaborative.

The Intensive Family Support program (IFS) is provided in Rockhampton. IFS services are tailored for families that have multiple and complex needs. We can help with:
- addressing issues such as domestic violence, mental health and substance misuse
- developing stronger life skills such as setting routines, budgeting and managing the household
- parenting support and strategies to build positive family relationships
- managing stress to cope with daily pressures
- providing child health and wellbeing resources
- linking clients into services that support child development
- connecting clients with local services, playgroups and other social networks
- supporting families with their cultural needs
- anything else clients are worried about

Act for Kids (ASC Townsville)

Assessment and Service Connect partners with families who are involved in an open investigation with Child Safety, to inform a family-focused assessment while providing support to increase safety and well-being and reduce the need for ongoing Child Safety intervention.

Act for Kids, Assessment and Service Connect

Act for Kids is an Australian not for-profit organisation providing professional therapy and support services for children and their families, operating independently of any government. In the Brisbane region, ASC is delivered by Act for Kids.
The purpose of our engagement is to understand your family’s strengths and needs in order to help keep your family together.

ACT StandBy Response Service - Support Link Australia Ltd

Specialising in Suicide Bereavement. The StandBy Response Service is a community-based postvention program that provides a coordinated response of support and assistance for people who have been bereaved through suicide.
The StandBy Response Service provides an immediate response to people bereaved by suicide via a locally based 24-hour response telephone number. People can receive face-to-face support provided by skilled StandBy response team members, and referral to a centrally coordinated system of local support services matched to their needs.
StandBy supports people in response to a local immediate suicide loss, a suicide which occurs elsewhere but affects local people, or when a suicide loss continues to affect people within the StandBy response area. StandBy also responds to school settings, workplaces, community groups and other types of multiple bereavement experiences.

ACT Together

ACT Together is a new consortium created to provide quality services for children and young people in out-of-home care in the (ACT).

ACT Together is urgently seeking different types of foster carers in the Canberra region to provide safe and stable homes for children and young people who cannot live with their families. Foster carers are especially needed for children living with a disability, groups of two or more siblings and young people aged 11-15 years.

Active Linc Home Based Services

We have been a NDIS registered provider since 2nd February 2015, operating under company name, S Wilson Occupational Therapy Pty Ltd. We are now trading as Active Linc Home Based Services. To date, we are registered for provision of the below classes of support with NDIS, ? Specialised assessment of skills, abilities and needs ? Therapeutic supports ? Assistive technology specialist assessment, set up and training ? Assist- Life Stage, Transition ? Custom Prostheses and Orthoses Primarily, we provide support coordination to vulnerbale people to best connect them with services and resources. Most of these people have destabilised mental health, physical disability and/or are financially disadvantaged, and are recipients of a full Disability Support Pension. We are a community based service provider, however are not a registered charity.