Department of Social Services Programs
Grants and Administered Procurement
2015-16
Outcome 4
Housing
Housing and
Homelessness
Service
Improvement
an Sector
Support
4.1 Housing and
Homelessness Program
Outcome 2
Families and
Communities
2.1 Families
and Communities
Program
The Housing and Homelessness Program
supports the development of policy advice to
inform government responses to meet current
and future challenges, including how
to improve housing affordability for all
Australians.
The Families and Communities Program
focuses on early intervention and prevention
activities to improve financial wellbeing and
capability, strengthen communities, support
migrants transitioning to life in Australia,
and ensure the lifetime wellbeing of
families and children.
Civil Society
Strengthening
Communities
Families and
Communities
Service
Improvement
Financial
Wellbeing and
Capability
5.2 National
Disability Insurance
Scheme
5.1 Disability,
Mental Health and
Carers Program
The Disability, Mental Health and Carers
Program (DMHCP) provides support for people
with disability, mental health
issues, and carers. The program has
a focus on early intervention and support
through community based
initiatives.
The National Disability Insurance Scheme
Transition program aims to manage the
transition of existing activities to ensure
services and service providers are
transitioned gradually to the NDIS in
line with the full roll-out of
the Scheme.
Outcome 5
Disability and Carers
Families and
Children
National
Initiatives
Settlement
Services
NDIS Transition
Disability and
Carer Support
Disability
Employment
Community
Mental Health
Disability and
Carer Service
Improvement
and Sector
Support
Community
Business
Partnerships
Strengthening
Civil Society
Volunteering
Community
Development
and
Participation
Civil Society
To support charities and not-forprofit organisations through
education, training and fostering
innovation to continue to focus on
their work in the community.
Multicultural
Affairs
Financial
Counselling,
Capability and
Resilience
Financial Crisis
and Material
Aid
Financial Wellbeing
and Capability
Strengthening Communities
Aims to support vulnerable
Supports organisations to develop
people and those most at risk of
solutions and deliver responsive
financial and social exclusion and
and integrated services that meet
disadvantage to navigate financial
community needs.
crisis and to build financial
Families and Communities
capability, resilience and
Service Improvement
wellbeing.
Supports a variety of service
improvement initiatives including
conferences, research, peak body
funding, pilot initiatives, policy
National Initiatives
advice, advocacy and
Aims to achieve positive
Families and Children
evaluation.
outcomes for families, women
Provides integrated services for
and their children, by supporting
families to achieve improved child,
families so that children have the
youth, adult and family wellbeing,
best possible start in life, and
increased economic engagement
advancing gender equality to
Settlement Services
and more cohesive
improve the status and
Delivers services which assist
communities.
wellbeing of women
clients to become self-reliant and
in Australia.
participate equitably in Australian
National
Framework for
society, with a focus on fostering
Family Law
Protecting
Services
National Plan
Australia’s
social participation, economic
to Reduce
Children
Family and
Violence
well-being, independence,
Relationship
against
Services
personal well-being and
Women and
Communities
Support for
Children
for Children
Children and
community
Peak Bodies
Trafficked
Facilitating
Parenting
and other
People
Partners
connectedness.
Consultative
Adult Specialist
Groups
Settlement
Grants
Support
Services
Humanitarian
Settlement
Services
Young People
Complex Case
Support
Language
Policy
Australian
Cultural
Orientation
2.1 Families
and Communities Program
More information on the activities delivered as
part of the program can be found in the
Program Guidelines.
Financial
Wellbeing and
Capability
More information on the activities delivered
as part of the program can be found in
the Program Guidelines.
Financial Crisis and Material Aid
Financial Crisis and Material Aid
encompasses the provision of Emergency
Relief and Food Relief.
Financial Counselling,
Capability and Resilience
Financial Counselling, Capability and
Resilience encompasses the provision of
financial counselling, financial literacy
education, and access to financial
services including financial and
microfinance products.
·
Emergency Relief provides immediate financial and/or material support to people
in a financial crisis. Emergency Relief provides a safety net for people experiencing
financial distress or hardship and who have limited means or resources to help
them alleviate their financial crisis.
·
Food Relief increases access to a cost-effective supply of food items by Emergency
Relief organisations. These items are then provided to people in financial crisis.
Food Relief includes the national sourcing and transport of essential foods to
community organisations or distribution centres and the development of local
partnerships amongst food redistribution suppliers.
·
Commonwealth Financial Counselling helps people in financial difficulty to
address their financial problems and make informed choices through direct case
work, one-on-one intensive support, community education and the provision of
information, advocacy and/or negotiation. Commonwealth Financial Counselling
can be accessed through face-to-face meetings or through the Financial
Counselling Helpline (1800 007 007).
·
Financial Capability services seek to help people to build longer-term capability to
budget and manage their money better and make informed choices, through
financial literacy education, information, coaching and support.
·
Financial Resilience offers a variety of safe and affordable financial services and
products targeted at financially vulnerable people to build self-reliance. These
products are not available through mainstream providers of financial services and
include no interest loans, low interest loans, microenterprise development loans
or other appropriate loans, and matched savings.
Community Business
Partnerships bring together community
and business leaders to advise the
Australian Government on practical
strategies to foster a culture of
philanthropic giving and investment in
Australia.
Civil Society
Strengthening Civil Society aims to
strengthen civil society by developing new
ways to grow community business
partnerships, philanthropy, volunteering
and corporate social responsibility.
Families and
Communities
Service
Improvement and
Sector Support
More information on the activities
delivered as part of the program
can be found in the
Program Guidelines.
Strengthening
Communities
More information on the activities delivered as part
of the program can be found in the Program
Guidelines.
Multicultural Affairs
Multicultural Affairs supports projects
that build the long-term capacities of
higher need and at-risk communities,
including through the promotion of
stronger community relations and the
development of sustainable
community partnerships.
·
Multicultural Arts and Festivals Grants are aimed at building cohesive Australian
communities. They do so by providing opportunities for Australians of all backgrounds to
come together and experience different cultural traditions, including through multicultural
arts and festival projects.
·
Diversity and Social Cohesion grants aim to develop the community capacity of specific
communities under significant pressure due to their cultural, religious or ethnic diversity,
focusing primarily on building social cohesion. They also aim to promote respect, fairness
and a sense of belonging for Australians of every race, culture and religion, focusing on the
promotion of inter-community harmony and understanding.
Community Development
and Participation
Community Development and
Participation supports the delivery of
services or one-off projects, activities or
events that respond to local community
needs and make a positive
contribution to community life.
Volunteering
The Volunteering sub-activity aims to
support the ongoing delivery of services
or one-off projects and activities to
encourage, support and increase
participation in volunteering.
·
Broadband for Seniors aims to increase
the capacity and ability of senior
Australians to connect with their
families, friends and communities by
participating online, and support the
effective operation of organisations
which provide training to seniors in
using digital technology.
·
Community Capacity Building grants
support delivery of time limited or oneoff programs and projects that are
designed to respond quickly to
opportunities to address a particular
need in a community and that respond
to local community needs and make a
positive contribution to community
life.
·
Volunteer Management Program aims to provide support and recognition for
volunteers, and maximise and promote volunteering participation including
opportunities to increase the diversity of volunteers and the ways in which people
volunteer.
·
Volunteer Grants are small, one-off grants provided to community not-for-profit
organisations to support their volunteers, Grants can be used to purchase small
equipment items, reimburse fuel costs incurred by volunteers or transport costs of
volunteers with disability, or contribute to the cost of training courses or background
screening checks for volunteers.
·
Building Safe Communities for Women
seeks to create sustainable practices to
help reduce violence against women and
to effectively respond to and support
women and their children who are
experiencing violence by improving
engagement between non-government
organisations, local government, local
business, government agencies including
schools, policy and health services, and the
broader community.
National Plan to
Reduce Violence against
Women and their Children
Components funded under the National
Plan to Reduce Violence against Women
and their Children 2010-2022 (the
National Plan), contribute to filling the
gaps in service provision for victims of
domestic and family violence and/or
sexual assault and build the
National Framework for
evidence-base in reducing
Protecting
Australia’s Children
violence against women.
The National Framework for Protecting
Australia’s Children 2009-2020 (the
National Framework) aims to drive change
for families and children so that
More information on the activities delivered as part of the
Australia’s children grow up
program can be found in the Program Guidelines.
safe and well.
Support for Trafficked
People Program
Support for Trafficked People Program
recognises that trafficked people have
specific and individual support needs and
may be at risk from traffickers, have few
safe networks in Australia and few
friends outside the exploitative
conditions they were found in.
National Initiatives
Settlement Grants
Delivers core settlement support for
humanitarian entrants and other eligible
migrants in their first five years in Australia.
Services include casework/coordination and
service delivery, community coordination and
development, youth settlement services and
support for ethno-specific
communities.
Peak Bodies and Other
Consultative Groups
Australian Cultural Orientation
Peak bodies and consultative groups
AUSCO
is provided to Refugee and Special
play an important role in representing
Humanitarian
Program visa holders over the
the settlement, and community sectors to
age
of
five
years
prior to their departure for
government. Typical peak body services
Australia. Through contract arrangements,
include but are not limited to providing advice
courses are delivered over a period of up to
on policy and program development,
five
days. AUSCO gives practical advice about
advocacy, sharing information and best
the journey to Australia and information
practice across the sector and promotion
about what to expect post-arrival.
Humanitarian Settlement Services
of issues on behalf of
HSS provides initial practical support
members.
designed to build the independence of newly
arrived humanitarian entrants. Through
contract arrangements, HSS assists
humanitarian entrants to participate
More information on the activities delivered as part of the
Language Policy
effectively in the Australian community and
The Department’s Free Interpreting
access mainstream services beyond the
program can be found in the Program Guidelines.
Service provides equitable access for
initial settlement period.
Complex Case Support
Settlement Services
eligible Australian citizens and permanent
residents who do not speak English, to approved
community organisations and individual service
providers. The Department supports the National
Accreditation Authority for Translators and
Interpreters (NAATI) in developing and
credentialing translators and interpreters. This
assists NAATI to set, maintain and promote high
national standards in translating and
interpreting and implement a national
quality-assurance system for
credentialing practitioners.
CCS supports some of the most vulnerable
humanitarian entrants during their first five
years in Australia as they deal with complex
issues affecting their lives and settlement
prospects. The CCS program is delivered by a
panel of service providers contracted by the
Department to provide individualised case
management services.
Administered Procurement
·
Family Relationship Centres are a highly visible entry point or gateway to the whole family
support service system. Centres provide information, support and referral services to all families
and provide family dispute resolution and access to some legal assistance for separating or
separated families.
·
Children’s Contact Services enable children of separated parents to have safe contact with the
parent who they do not live with in circumstances where parents are unable to manage their
own contact arrangements.
·
The Supporting Children after Separation Program aims to support the wellbeing of children
under the age of 18 from separated or separating families who are experiencing issues with
difficult family relationships. The services help children and young people deal with issues
arising from the breakdown of their parents’ relationship and the circumstances in which they
find themselves and provide opportunities for them to participate in decisions that impact on
them.
·
The Parenting Orders Program – Post Separation Cooperative Parenting Services help
separated or divorced families who are in high conflict to work out parenting arrangements in a
manner which encourages consideration of what is in a child’s best interests in establishing or
maintaining relationships, while at the same time ensuring the safety of all parties.
·
Family Dispute Resolution services assist families to reach agreement and to resolve their
disputes related to family law issues about child and property related matters, outside of the
court system.
·
Regional Family Dispute Resolution services assist families to reach agreement and to resolve
their disputes related to family law issues, in particular child and property related matters,
outside of the court system.
·
The Family Relationship Advice Line (the Advice Line) is a national non-face to face service
available to anyone affected by family relationship or separation issues and difficulties, including
parents, grandparents, carers, children, young people, step-parents or friends.
·
Family Law Counselling (delivered under the Family and Relationship Services Sub-Activity)
services help people with relationship difficulties better manage their personal or interpersonal
issues to do with children and family during marriage, separation and divorce.
·
Children and Parenting Support Services under this component
provide support to children and families based on an early
intervention and prevention approach and supporting the capacity of
those in a parenting role. Services have a primary focus on children
aged 0-12 years, but may include children up to age 18 years.
·
Intensive Family Support Services (IFSS) are evidence-informed and
outcomes-based with a focus on reducing child neglect and increasing
the capacity of highly vulnerable families living in selected
communities in the Northern Territory (NT) and the Anungu
Pitjantjatjara Yankunyatjatjara (APY) Lands of South Australia (SA) to
support their children to be safe, nurtured and thriving.
·
Family and Relationship Services – Drought Assistance delivers increased
funding to drought affected areas, delivering therapy and counselling for
individuals, couples and families to strengthen relationships, parenting and
skills development services, and information and referral to other services
and support, in particular programs provided by the Australian Government
to support farm families and farm businesses in hardship.
·
Specialised Family Violence uses a whole-of-family approach to support
those affected by family violence and to help those who exhibit violent
behaviour to change. They consider the individual needs of each family
member and provide assistance and referral to complement services as
appropriate.
·
Intercountry Adoption Australia provides services to support the adoption of
a child/children from countries other than Australia, including broad-based
counselling and education services to support families, couples and
individuals formally engaged in the intercountry adoption process.
Family Law Services
Family law services aim to
provide alternatives to formal
legal processes for families who are
separated or are separating to resolve
their disputes, improve their relationships
and make arrangements that are in
the best interests of
their children.
Family and
Relationship Services
Family and Relationship Services aim to
strengthen family relationships, prevent
breakdown and ensure the wellbeing and
safety of children through the provision of
broad-based counselling and education
to families of different forms
and sizes.
Communities for Children
Facilitating Partners
Communities for Children Facilitating
Partners aim to deliver positive and
sustainable outcomes for children and
families in disadvantaged communities
throughout Australia.
Families and
Children
More information on the activities delivered as part
of the program can be found in the Program
Guidelines.
Children and Parenting
The Children and Parenting
Sub-Activity provides funding to early
intervention and prevention services and
resources that are aimed at improving
children’s development and wellbeing
and supporting the capacity of those
in a parenting role.
·
National Find and Connect Support Services are for Forgotten Australians and
Former Child Migrants and provide specialist counselling, referral services, peer,
education and social support programs and assistance to locate and access
records and reconnect with family members (where possible).
·
Forced Adoptions Support Services provide specialist support to people affected
by forced adoptions. The services complement and enhance existing services
funded by the state and territory governments and aim to improve access to
peer support, professional counselling and records and family tracing.
·
Royal Commission Community-Based Support provide a broad range of
assistance to people affected by the Royal Commission into Institutional
Responses to Child Sexual Abuse. Services include counselling, information and
referral and case management to ensure victims and survivors of child sexual
abuse, and their families, are able to access support and participate in the Royal
Commission.
Young People
Young People services assist young
people and their families to improve
family relationships, promote family
functioning, and support engagement
with work, education, training and the
community. This includes a focus on
young people who are at risk of
homelessness.
Adult Specialist
Support Services
Adult Specialist Support Services
provide services and support to improve
outcomes and enhance wellbeing for
people adversely affected by past
institutional and child-welfare
practices and policies.
Housing and Homelessness
Service Improvement and Sector
Support provides support for housing
4.1 Housing and
Homelessness Program
More information on the Housing and
Homelessness Program can be found on
the DSS website.
and homelessness research which will
build the evidence base for effective
policy that addresses homelessness and
housing affordability over the long
term.
Carers Week
Integrated Plan for
Carer Support
Services
National Carer
Gateway
Young Carer Bursary
Program
National Disability
Advocacy Program
Counselling, Support,
Information and
Advocacy
National Disability
Conference Initiative
Postal Concessions
for the Blind Program
National Respite for
Carers Program
Dementia Education
and Training for
Carers
Print Disability
Services Program
Dementia and Aged
Care Services Fund
Disability and Carer
Support
Disability and Carer Support
provides assistance, support and
services for people with disability and
carers. This Activity aims to provide
appropriate means of self-reliance,
communication, education
services and advocacy.
Sector Development
– Disability
Representative
Organisations
Carers Peak Body
Funding
Disability and Carer
Service Improvement and
Sector Support
Disability, Carer Service
Improvement and Sector Support
aims to promote an understanding of
people with disability and carers, and
to maximise their potential to
Community Mental Health
participate
as equal citizens in
The objective of the Community
society.
Mental Health Activity is to provide
early intervention and other support
to assist people with mental illness
and their families and carers,
increase their wellbeing and actively
participate in community and
economic life.
Assistance for People
Severely Impacted by
Mental Illness
Support options for
carers and
families of people with
severe mental illness
Early intervention
support to vulnerable
families with children and
young people who are
showing early signs of, or
are at risk of developing,
mental illness
Disability Employment
includes funding to help individuals
with injury, disability or a health
condition to secure and maintain
sustainable open employment.
Disability
Employment Services
Employment
Assistance and Other
Services
5.1 Disability,
Mental Health and Carers
Program
More information on the activities delivered as
part of the program can be found in the
Program Guidelines.
Postal Concessions for
the Blind Program
reimburses Australia Post for
the postal charges associated with
posting Braille documents, audio
recordings and other material
Counselling, Support,
National Disability
(defined as 'eligible items') for
Advocacy Program provides
Information
and Advocacy
people who are blind or
appropriate and timely advocacy
provides carers with specific
vision impaired.
to people with disability that addresses
information, education and
instances of discrimination, abuse and
training to assist them to
neglect. It provides information to
understand and manage situations,
people with disability about their rights
behaviours and relationships
and responsibilities and supports them
Dementia Education
associated with care needs
where possible in making informed
National Carer Gateway
and
Training for Carers
External Merits Review – Support decisions about issues that impact
of
the
person
they
are
provides support and
aims to improve the quality of
Component aims to ensure National
on their lives.
caring for.
community-based initiatives for
life of people living with dementia
Disability Insurance Agency (NDIA)
decisions are fair and robust, so that all
people with disability have access to
support when they are seeking a review
Print Disability Services
of NDIA decisions in the Administrative
Program provides funding
Appeals Tribunal.
·
·
people with a disability or mental
by increasing the competence and
illness and for carers so they can
confidence of carers, by providing
develop capabilities and actively
Dementia and Aged
courses that aim to enhance
Care Services Grants
participate in community and
their skills, or processes
projects
provide
carer
support
economic
life.
that connect a carer to
for organisations to produce
groups, carer education and training,
information.
digital masters which are used to
and respite services, and link carers
develop alternative formats for
to wider community services. The
people who are unable to read
projects also aim to support carers
standard print with ease due to
by equipping them with the skills,
More information on the activities delivered as part
National Disability
vision impairment, a physical
tools and confidence to assist
of the program can be found in the Program
Conference Initiative aims
disability or a learning
National Respite for Carers
them and their care
Guidelines.
to assist eligible conference
disability.
recipient.
Program supports and assists
organisers to maximise the
relatives and friends caring at
inclusion and participation of
home for people who are unable
people with disability at
to care for themselves because of
nationally focused
disability or frailty.
Young Carer Bursary
disability-related
Program assists young
conferences in Australia.
carers
aged
25
years
and
under
to
Consumer Directed Respite Care enables carers to take a break from
continue to study, and to relieve
their caring role and gives carers a greater say and more control over
the design and delivery of respite services provided to them and their
the financial pressure for them to
care recipients.
undertake part-time work in
addition to their educational
National Carer Counselling Program provides short-term counselling
and emotional and psychological support services for carers in need
and caring responsibilities.
Disability and
Carer Support
of support, in order to reduce carer stress, improve carer coping skills
and facilitate, wherever appropriate, continuation of the caring role.
·
·
Commonwealth Respite and Carelink Centres includes a range of
carer respite and support activities, providing a link to carer support
services and assisting carers with options to take a break through
short-term and emergency respite.
Carer Information Support Service aims to assist carers in their caring
role through the provision of specialist information and advice,
emotional support and help with planning via telephone.
·
Supporting people with disability and their
representatives attend key international forums on
human rights helps Australia comply with Article 32
(International Cooperation) of the United Nations
Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.
·
Enhanced Social and Community Support (Drought Assistance –
Community and Mental Health Component) supports community mental
health organisations to provide social and community support to assist
farmers, their families and drought-affected communities who are
experiencing family relationship issues, distress or mental illness.
·
A Better Life (ABLe) aims to improve the independence, participation and
lifetime wellbeing of people severely affected by mental illness, including
drug and alcohol misuse disorders and/or gambling addiction.
·
The Individual Placement and Support Trial will integrate employment and
vocational support with clinical mental health and non-vocational support
for young people with mental illness. The trial will target vulnerable young
people up to the age of 25 with mental illness, who are at risk of
disengaging from education and are at risk of long-term welfare
dependency.
·
·
Carers and Work provides intensive
support to carers of people with
mental illness to address barriers to
carers achieving employment
outcomes. Outcomes include
finding work, achieving or
maintaining work-readiness, or
changing or managing employment
to suit the caring role.
Assistance for people severely
impacted by mental illness includes
practical one-to-one assistance to people
with severe mental illness aged 16 years
and over, to help them access services
and participate economically and socially
in the community, increasing their
opportunities for recovery.
Support options for carers and
families of people with severe mental
illness includes relief from the caring role
through respite or social and recreational
activities, counselling, advocacy, peer
support, education and information.
Family Mental Health Support Services provides non-clinical, early
intervention support to help children and young people aged up to 18
years, who are exhibiting early symptoms or signs of mental ill-health,
addressing issues that impact their mental health, and strengthening
protective factors to reduce the likelihood of mental ill-health later in life.
Early intervention
support to vulnerable
families with children and
young people who are showing early
signs of, or are at risk of developing,
mental illness includes intensive, longterm, early intervention support, referral
and assistance for families, and
community outreach and
group work.
Community
Mental Health
More information on the activities delivered as
part of the program can be found in the
Program Guidelines.
Carers Week
National Carers Week is a campaign
aimed to recognise and celebrate the
contribution that Australia’s unpaid carers
make to our nation.
Disability and
Carer Service
Improvement and
Sector Support
More information on the activities delivered
as part of the program can be found
in the Program Guidelines.
The Integrated Plan for Carer
Support Services (the Plan) is being
developed to streamline and better
coordinate carer support services. The
Plan is critical to ensuring carer needs are
recognised and supported as major
reforms occur in the aged care and
Sector Development – Disability
disability sectors.
Representative Organisations
Carers Peak Body Funding
provides funding to national disability
Carers Australia is the peak body and
peak organisations for the provision of
national voice for carers. It works to
“grass roots” policy advice, and provide an
promote recognition of the important role
opportunity for the disability sector to
of carers in the Australian community,
effectively and responsively help ensure
and to empower carers so they will be
that people with disability and service
better resourced and informed.
providers that support them are
appropriately represented.
Disability Employment Services
Through Disability Employment Services,
job seekers with a disability, injury or
health condition may be able to receive
assistance to prepare for, find and keep a
job.
Disability
Employment
Employment Assistance
and Other Services
The Government has a range of initiatives
that are targeted to assist employers to
employ and retain people with disability.
·
Disability Management Service provides services to eligible job seekers with
temporary or permanent disability, injury or health condition who require the
assistance of a disability employment service but who are not expected to need
regular, long-term support in the workplace.
·
Employment Support Service is available to those eligible job seekers with
permanent disability who are assessed as needing regular long-term ongoing
support in the workplace.
·
JobAccess is a free information and advice service to assist the employment of
people with disability. JobAccess Advisers help people with disability, employers,
service providers and the community to access information about services,
financial assistance and workplace solutions.
·
The National Disability Recruitment Coordinator is a single national service
providing support to large employers targeting employment of people with
disability, particularly those assisted by DES providers.
·
The Employment Assistance Fund provides financial assistance to a person with
disability, or their employer, for workplace modifications, equipment and services
they require as a result of their disability and that are necessary for them to
perform their employment duties.
·
The Supported Wage System enables the payment of productivity based wages to
eligible people whose work productivity is significantly reduced as a result of their
disability.
·
Wage subsidies are payments made to eligible employers to help cover the costs
of paying wages in the first few months of employment of a person with disability
or a person experiencing other barriers to employment. They aim to increase the
competitiveness of workers, including those with disability.
·
The National Panel of Assessors delivers three assessment types that are
embedded in the delivery of DES
·
Ongoing Support Assessments, that determine the support that employees
need to retain their job
·
Supported Wage System assessments to determine productivity based wages
for workers
·
Workplace Modifications assessments which determine how the Employment
Assistance Fund can be used to make the workplace accessible.
Remote Hearing and
Vision
Services for Children
Outside School Hours
Care for
Teenagers with
Disability
National Auslan
Interpreter
Booking and Payment
Service
NDIS Transition
Personal Helpers and
Mentors
(PHaMS)
Mental Health
Respite: Carer
Support
Autism Specific Early
Learning and Care
Centres
The Young Carers
Respite and
Information Services
(Young Carers)
Early Intervention for
Children with Disability
(includes Better Start for
Children with Disability
(Better Start) and Helping
Children with Autism
(HCWA))
Respite Support for
Carers of Young
People with Severe or
Profound Disability
Disability Employment
Assistance
Younger Onset
Dementia
Key Worker Program
Aims to improve wellbeing through
the NDIS, and includes existing supports that
are transitioning into the Scheme in a phased
approach.
More information on the NDIS Transition
Program can be found in the Program
Guidelines.
5.2 National Disability
Insurance Scheme
More information on the NDIS can be found on the NDIS website.
Remote Hearing and Vision
Services for Children aims to improve
access to qualified allied health and
education services for children, up to the
age of 18, with hearing and/or vision
impairment in remote and regional
locations across Australia (including
Indigenous communities) via remote
service delivery methods.
Outside School Hours Care for
Teenagers with Disability provides
quality outside school hours care for
students with disability and their
parents and carers with time to work or
participate in the community, with a focus
on social, recreational and life skills
development activities that are
stimulating
and age appropriate.
National Auslan Interpreter
Personal Helpers and Mentors
Booking and Payment Service aims to
Younger Onset Dementia
(PHaMS) provides practical one-to-one
facilitate communication between people
Key Worker Program provides
assistance to people severely impacted by
who are deaf or hearing impaired and
individualised support to improve the
mental illness, aged 16 years and over, to
private medical practitioners by providing
quality of life for people with younger
help them achieve their personal goals,
Auslan interpreters for private medical
onset dementia, their carers
develop better relationships with family
appointments that attract a Medicare
and families.
and friends, and manage their everyday
Mental Health Respite: Carer
rebate.
tasks.
Support provides relief from the
Disability Employment Assistance
caring role, through in-home or out-offunds Australian Disability Enterprises,
home respite or social and recreational
which are commercial businesses, to
activities; carer support; including
provide supported employment for
counselling, practical assistance, social
people with a disability so they can
inclusion activities, case management;
develop their capabilities and participate
and education, information and access
in economic and community life.
including community mental health
promotion.
Respite Support for Carers of Young
Autism Specific Early Learning and Care
People with Severe or Profound
Centres provide early learning programs
Disability provides immediate and shortand specific support to children with
term respite for carers of young people
Autism Spectrum Disorder in a long day
with a severe or profound disability whose
care setting.
needs are not being met through existing
programs.
Early Intervention for Children
with Disability (includes Better Start
for Children with Disability (Better
Start) and Helping Children with
Autism (HCWA) program aims to increase
access to early intervention services for
children with Autism Spectrum Disorder
(HCWA) and a
range of developmental disabilities
(Better Start).
The Young Carers Respite and
Information Services (Young Carers)
activity assists students with a significant
caring role who need support to complete
their secondary education or the
vocational equivalent due to the demands
of their caring role.
NDIS Transition