All our service users can take part in the programs and services we offer – and for the great majority the services are free or at minimal cost. For overseas visitors – or folk who are not registered with QLD Disabilities and Community Care – we offer discounted rates. So if you are holidaying in Queensland and would like a support person to help you have a holiday – give us a call – our qualified staff rates begin at A$35.00/hr and our self-contained Two bedroom Unit costs A$100 per night or A$500 a week (7 nights).
We offer a range of services to people with disabilities – from Children aged from birth to the end of High School through to Young Adults and into the Older Adults and their retirement years. These services include the following – and if you want to know more about them – just click on any of the underlined words – and you will be taken there for more information:
- Respite – but we prefer to call this ‘having a holiday’ with Flexi. This might be a sleepover, a weekend away, a week or two’s holiday with us in our self-contained unit 0r even going away on one of our fully escorted overseas holidays. We take the time to plan any of the holidays – regardless of whether it is an overnight sleepover – or a two-week holiday. We work out what and where folk would like to go – children and retirees always love the wildlife parks – or the water parks! We alway let you know of other costs that might be incurred for these trips. Call us and have a chat about your needs.
- Community Access – this is where someone who might face some difficulties in getting out to do the shopping, visiting the doctor or hairdresser or going to the movies, football or rock concert – gets the support they need to do it. Our Young Adults are right into this stuff!
- Living Skills – our qualified Lifestyle Facilitators (that’s what we call our workers) can help people to live independently in the community by slowing helping them to learn how to do stuff by themselves. This ‘stuff’ might be to shower themselves, cook, budget, make appointments, catch a bus, plan an outing. Skills need to be practices to be maintained and many skills can be learned over time. And we have the time!
- Individual Support is provided where our services choose to have a 1 to 1 service and this might be for more personal tasks: buying birthday presents, shopping, going to the masseur and letter writing. Other times you might prefer to join a group like the Library Book club, a choir or go to a heavy metal concert or see a play in the theatre with your friends.
- Family Support is information for families and our Team Leaders are a great source of information! We will also help families to find information on aids, funding, conferences and services in the community and nationally. We can also help with funding applications. If a family needs a holiday from their job as a carer – or a person wants a break from their family(!) then a Flexi Holiday is a really good option (Respite)
- Supported Accommodation is specially funded accommodation where there is a team member ‘on duty’ 24 Hours a day, 7 days a week to just make sure everyone in the house is chugging along just fine. These houses are called Flexi 1 and Flexi 2 etc. We don’t really like the word ‘residential’ (it sounds a bit institutional) the homes are more ‘share houses’ where people can live together. We keep ‘rules’ to a minimum (mostly for safety!) and everyone has their own pattern of living: so we encourage folk to go off for dinner with mum and dad, to the movies with someone, stay overnight with a friend – or having mates over for a BBQ and a few beers – the usual stuff.
- Independent Accommodation is for folk who are living in their own or rented accommodation in the community. The Flexi Board is planning on constructing a fantastic little Village where we can even have small families living together such as a Mum with Down’s Syndrome can live with her children and feel secure and within reach of services she wants. Have a look at the tentative plans here.
