National Assistance Card
The National Assistance Card is a personalised card that helps people with disability and health conditions in the community. The Card provides cardholders a means of communicating the impacts of their disability or health condition, and any assistance they may require, in their own words. The National Assistance Card is currently available to Autistic people and people with brain injury.
Expression of interest: National Autism Strategy Reference Group and Working Groups
Resources for job-seekers and employees
The Australian Human Rights Commission provides resources to support people with disability who are looking for work, advancing their career or thinking about self-employment.
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.