This website provides information to assist people with a disability move from school into training and higher education, and then into their chosen career.

E-Bility
 
The E-Bility site offers easy access to a wide range of information, resources, services and products of interest to people with disability, their families and carers, health professionals and service providers in the disability sector.

Department of Communities - Disability, Home and Community Care, and Community Mental Health Services
 
DSQ is the first disability focused Department in Queensland, representing a new way forward for people with a disability and their families. The Department works closely with communities to enhance service delivery and allow people with a disability and their families more input into the policies that affect them.

The Disability Information Service (part of DSQ) links you to disability information and resources. You can contact this free, statewide service by phone, fax, email or telephone typewriter (TTY), or use QFinder - Queensland Directory of Health and Community Services.

Disability Employment Services  (DES)
 
The Disability Employment Services (DES) provides specialist assistance to people with disabilities, injury or health conditions.  DES will provide individually tailored employment services including an Employment Pathway Plan (EPP), linkages with training and skills development. DES offers 2 programs:

Disability Management Service: For jobseekers with disability, injury or health condition who require employment assistance but require short term support – approx 6-12 months.

Employment Support Services: For jobseekers with permanent disability and with an assessed need for long term regular support in the workplace – 12 months or more.

A one-stop shop connecting you to the services you need to help you find and keep a job.  Your Job Services Australia (JSA) provider will work with you to develop an Employment Pathway Plan (EPP) based on your needs and circumstances and sets out the services and training that will help you to find and keep a job.  Access will be available to a wide range of work experience activities and training suited to the employment opportunities in your local area.

Job Capacity Assessments identify a person’s ability to work and any barriers they face to getting a job and will directly connect them to employment support services to assist in addressing those barriers.

This guide aims to give you a broad understanding of the support available for children and young people with a disability in the state school sector. It will give you a quick tour of: *schooling for children with a disability in Queensland; * the specialised support available to students; * what you can do to get the best outcomes for your child.

ACPET is the Australian Council for Private Education and Training - the national industry association for independent providers of post-compulsory education and training, for Australian and international students, including: * Higher Education; * Vocational Education and Training; * English Language Courses; * Senior Secondary Studies; * Foundation Studies

Learning Network Queensland (LNQ) is a business unit hosted and sponsored by Brisbane North Institute of TAFE. LNQ currently has 34 operational Learning Centres located across Queensland.

LNQ aims to Empower Queenslanders in rural and remote communities with educational opportunities and offers: * Accredited and non-accredited training; * Mobile classrooms; * Community-based Learning Centres; * University bridging courses (UNILEARN); * Facilities for university and TAFE students; *Adult Community Education Programs (ACE); * Personalised, self-paced programs.

This directory contains an extensive list of service providers - including the range of services they offer and their contact details. Site will assist you find community, residential aged care, disability and other support services available in your area.

This Queensland Health reference web site is designed to help you access a wide range of health and community services provided by public, private and non-government providers in Queensland

A phone solution for people who are deaf or have a hearing or speech impairment.

A Way With Words

The way in which we refer to people affects the way they are seen by others and, indeed, how they feel about themselves.  The purpose of A Way With Words is to promote inclusiveness and the fair and accurate portrayal of people with a disability.