Accommodation Support Services
CatholicCare provides a variety of accommodation services to adults with an intellectual disability. We have one program that is ‘block’ funded (TWIN -Towards Independence) in which we provide support for 6 individuals in the ACT.
We also provide a number of services to people who are identified as sole recipients of funding. These include ISP (Individual Support Package) recipients and ‘Accommodation Support’ programs.
We decide on an individual basis whether to accept these clients into our program, based on our ability to provide a quality service.
Dorothy Sales Cottages provide accommodation to 8 people in 2 cottages, who have an acquired brain injury. The support is provided in a home like environment, whilst providing the appropriate medical care needed. The service has an on-site hydrotherapy pool and we also provide mobility and exercise therapy/programs. The cottages are staffed by nurses and disability support workers. There is one respite bed available for people with severe acquired brain injury.
Click here to download the Dorothy Sales Cottages Respite brochure
Clcik here to download the Disability Services Program brochure
Contact Information:
Accommodation Support Services
Blackfriars Reception
(Please ask to be put through to the program)
Ph: 02 6163 7600
Fax: 02 6163 7676
Brokerage Services
CatholicCare Disability Services also provides the opportunity for people or other organizations to purchase services. This is a ‘fee for service’ program and we decide on an individual basis whether to accept clients into our program, based on our ability to provide a quality service.
Click here to download the Disability Services Program brochure
Contact Information:
Brokerage Services
Blackfriars Reception
(Please ask to be put through to the program)
Ph: 02 6163 7600
Fax: 02 6163 7676
Family Counselling & Mediation Service
(For carers & families supporting a person with a disability)
This program aims to provide families of a person with a disability, counselling and mediation for any issues which arise from future planning. This may include concerns about the capacity to maintain a caring role, anxieties around what planning for the future entails, defining roles of family members, ensuring decisions made are in the best interests of the whole family and so on.
This service is free of charge.
Click here to download the Family Counselling & Mediation brochure
Contact Information:
Ph: (02) 6162 6100
Flexible Family Respite Program
Flexible Family Respite is a service providing short term, emergency, one-off and some long term respite in a way that meets family needs. The aim of the program is to reduce the ongoing need for formal respite through promoting a positive adaption to caregiving, fostering the independence of the carer and the person being cared for. The program provides support to families caring for a person with a disability, a person with mental health issues, a person who is aged, or a person who has chronic health care needs.
Click here to download the Flexible Family Respite Program brochure
Contact Information:
Flexible Family Respite Program
Blackfriars Reception
(Please ask to be put through to the program)
Ph: 02 6163 7600
Fax: 02 6163 7676
Hands On Studio
Hands On Studio is an art program, which provides access to professional art classes as well as generic craft classes. The Studio is on the grounds of M16, providing access to the art community in Canberra. The Studio holds a number of exhibitions during the year which enable students to sell their work. It provides an opportunity for people to develop and showcase their work. The Studio also operates an ‘Art Bank’, allowing organisations and businesses to ‘lease’ work for display. Outreach programs are also available upon request.
Click here to download the Hands On Studio brochure
Contact Information:
Hands On Studio
Ph & Fax: 02 6232 7187
Homelinx
Homelinx is a CatholicCare Youth Housing program funded by the ACT Department of Disability Housing and Community Services. The Program provides a housing outreach service to young people aged 15-25 years, who are homeless or at risk of homelessness and live in the ACT region. The Program can offer assistance to young people by helping them to find affordable, stable and independent accommodation as well as teaching participants living skills such as budgeting, cooking and cleaning to assist them to gain and maintain independence. The Program operates Monday - Friday 9.00am - 5.00pm.
Click here to download the Homelinx brochure
Contact Information:
Homelinx
Blackfriars reception
(Please ask to be put through)
Ph: (02) 6163 7600
Fax:(02) 6163 7676
LINC (Living In Networked Communities)
LINC is a program designed to provide a living option for adults with a disability who wish to live on their own within a network. The LINC Network consists of 10 properties in close proximity. 9 Properties are for people with a disability, the 10th property is for the Community Living Worker, who provides ‘friendly neighbour’ support to the 9 members of the network. The members provide support to each other and the Community Living Worker provides the opportunity for people to develop friendships within their community.
Click here to download the Disability Services Program brochure
Contact Information:
LINC
Blackfriars Reception
(Please ask to be put through to the program)
Ph: 02 6163 7600
Fax: 02 6163 7676
Mature Carers
The Mature Carers program provides support to carers of a person with a disability, over the age of 65yrs (45yrs for ATSI groups) to enable the person with a disability to remain in the family home. Planning and case management is provided to ensure that future options are considered, and services implemented if required, for when the carer is unable to continue in this role and the person with a disability may require alternative accommodation. Skill development programs and ‘Future Planning’ are the core services for this program.
Click here to download the Disability Services Program brochure
Contact Information:
Mature Carers
Blackfriars Reception
(Please ask to be put through to the program)
Ph: 02 6163 7600
Fax: 02 6163 7676
Support Options (HACC)
Support Options is a HACC funded program which provides ‘Social Support, Domestic Assistance, Personal Care and limited Case Management’ to adults with a moderate, severe or profound intellectual disability. Priority is given to people who in the absence of the support, within the scope of the program, are at risk of premature or inappropriate long term residential care.
Click here to download the Disability Services Program brochure
Contact Information:
Support Options
Blackfriars Reception
(Please ask to be put through to the program)
Ph: 02 6163 7600
Fax: 02 6163 7676
Youth and Wellbeing Program
The Youth and Wellbeing Program is funded through ACT Health. The purpose is to support young people in the community between 12 to 25 years of age who have a mental health condition and/or drug and alcohol, anger and behavioural concerns and related issues. The staff at Youth and Wellbeing aim to encourage resilience and independence through a process of support, education and advocacy. Referrals can be made over the phone on the numbers listed below.
Click here to download the Youth and Wellbeing brochure
Contact Information:
Youth and Wellbeing
Blackfriars reception
(Please ask to be put through)
Ph: (02) 6163 7600
Fax: (02) 6163 7676
