A Guide To: Finding Assistance - Fact Sheet

This document is aimed at all people with a disability or who are providing support to someone with a disability. It lists the key areas of assistance that are available through affordable, subsidised, fully government funded or otherwise free services in Queensland, and the key agencies that will provide those services or help you access them. As many of these services are national, it may also be relevant to residents of other states.

The first step is to work out what you need assistance with, so that you can ask the right people. In an ideal world, you could pick up the phone and call one person who could arrange everything for you. This is not yet possible in Queensland, and there are a wide range of different agencies and government departments providing assistance to people with a disability.

Referral agencies can help you determine what it is that you need assistance with. But if you know the key agencies, you're halfway there.

If you're looking for something which isn't here, don't have any luck contacting anybody listed here or need any of the terms explained, please contact the Brain Injury Association of Queensland's Community Response Service on 1800 673 074 or (07) 3367 1049 or email This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

HOW TO USE THIS DOCUMENT

1. Contact details for the three major support programs or referring agencies are listed first. Ringing those three numbers will cover most of this document.

2. National and local government online services databases are listed next. If you are comfortable with a computer, you will probably be able to find the details of any organisation that will be available to assist you.

3. What do you need? Lists most of the areas of support that somebody with a disability may need. The list is alphabetical. Read all the way through: You might find help that you never knew was available or your may find that what you were looking for is available under a different name.

4. Further Information lists some resources that will help you apply for services or understand more about the issues listed here.

1. CONTACT DETAILS FOR MAJOR SERVICES

DSQ (Disability Services Queensland)

HACC (Home And Community Care)

Commonwealth Carer Respite Centre

2. ONLINE SERVICES DATABASES

Local council websites

Commonwealth Carelink Centre Search For Services

Lifeline JustLook

3. WHAT DO YOU NEED?

Accommodation

Advocacy

Allied health care, therapy and rehabilitation

Community access or life skills

Counselling

Employment assistance

Health care

Home modifications (for example ramps or hand-rails)

Legal assistance

Mental Health

Personal care in the home, including cleaning and shopping

Physical aids including wheelchairs

Recreation and leisure

Respite

Transport

4. FOR MORE INFORMATION

Brain Injury Association of Queensland Fact Sheets at www.braininjury.org.au

Other Websites