Participate Australia

Participate Australia helps people living with intellectual, cognitive and developmental disabilities to achieve their goals, make new friends and gain education and employment skills through organised activities and a range of individualised supports.

SydWest Multicultural Services - Homelessness Project

The Homelessness Project helps people from non-English speaking backgrounds to access private, government or community housing in the Blacktown LGA. The program addresses issues of mortgage stress, homelessness, rental assistance, housing support and a rent choice program for youth aged 16 to 24 years.

SydWest Multicultural Services

The SydWest Multicultural centre based respite program provides day care for seniors. The program actively encourages positive ageing and wellbeing, through activities that stimulate participants physically, mentally, and emotionally.

Nairm Marr Djambana

Nairm Marr Djambana offers a culturally welcoming, safe and accessible space for the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community in Frankston – a place to gather, to connect, to heal and to have a sense of belonging.

Support for families raising children

Kiind supports families raising children living with disability, developmental delay, autism, genetic, rare, undiagnosed and/or chronic conditions. Kiind provides information and a range of resources including obtaining a diagnosis, financial, caring, health and education supports and options.

The National sign Language Program (NSLP)

The NSLP provides free sign language interpreting and captioning services for Deaf, Deafblind and hard of hearing older people. 

Brain Foundation

The Brain Foundation is dedicated to funding research into neurological disorders, diseases, and injuries, with the ultimate goal of advancing diagnoses, treatments, and patient outcomes.

The Brain Foundation website has resources and tips to help Australians keep their brains healthy.

How to advocate

This resource helps school and tertiary students with disability to build self-advocacy skills and provides guidance on how to raise and resolve concerns with their education provider.

Have your say about a First Nations Disability Forum

Consultation on a First Nations Disability Forum is now open.

The Australian Government is seeking input on how a First Nations Disability Forum could be designed.

This is a commitment made in response to the Disability Royal Commission recommendation 9.10.

Your feedback will be used to develop options for what a forum could look like.

Your feedback can be provided by:

Supporting younger people in residential aged care (YPIRAC) toolkit

Aged care in Australia is not designed to support younger people under the age of 65. This is why the Australian Government is committed to reducing the number of younger people in residential aged care.

A new interactive toolkit aims to help younger people and their families, carers, nominees and support coordinators understand the: