Disability Support
Information & Support for carers and people with disabilities.
Breakaway Respite Program
The aim of the Breakaway respite program is to provide a group social respite program. The Breakaway program is eligible to families of young children/persons with a disability between the ages of 5 – 17 years. The program is both centre based and also has excursions.
Breakaway for 18-25
Excursions & a recreation program for young people aged 18-25 years who have mild to moderate disabilities.
Able Australia
Formally the Deaf Blind Association of Victoria, Able Australia remains focused on creating a community where people with multiple disabilities including deaf blindness are seen, heard, respected, valued and connected.
Action for Community Living
ACL is a federally funded organisation advocating empowerment, independence and life in the community for people with disabilities.
Accessibility.com.au
The disability information resource. Developed by a dedicated team of health professionals and researchers, the site has been designed to help you gain important health and lifestyle knowledge for home, at work and enjoying your community.
Advocacy House
We are committed to improving the quality and range of opportunities that enable people with disabilities to live well in the community.
Anglicare Victoria
Anglicare supports families caring for a child with an intellectual or physical disability. Programs recruits, train assess and match children with a care-giver for anywhere between one week and two years. Families are also provided with assistance in co-ordinating appropriate support services to meet their specific needs such as respite care, counselling, holiday opportunities and sibling support groups.
Arc Project
The Alternative Recreation Choices Project (ARC) aims to assist children with complex care needs in accessing mainstream recreational programs. The ARC Project will build partnerships with service providers, children and their families and provide pathways to out of school hours care options.
Primary school children who reside in Melton, Brimbank or Wyndham are eligible.
ARC Project Worker
MacKillop Family Services
9 Victoria Street, Footscray - 9689 4700
Aspergers Syndrome & High Functioning Autism Group
This group is mostly for parents with school age children, however others are welcome.
- 2nd & 4th Tuesday of the month
- Heathdale Community Centre
Kookaburra Ave & Nightingale Drive Werribee
Contact: Jan De Witte Ph: 9845 2766
Association of Children with a Disability
Offering information, support and advocacy organisation for children with a disability and their families, in Victoria, Australia.
Broaden Their Horizons
Broaden their Horizons is a centralised website that houses resources for careers practitioners when working with students with disabilities.
Carers Victoria
A free service that provides information and assistance to carers living in Melbourne's Western Metropolitan region.
Cerebral Palsy Association of Australia
Connecting Care
This site provides links and a referral mechanism to health and community services within different municipalities around Victoria.
Create Disability Support Services
Disability Support Services at CREATE support people with a disability to achieve successful participation in their community.
Deaf Blind Association Victoria
Now called Able Australia remains focused on creating a community where people with multiple disabilities including deaf blindness are seen, heard, respected, valued and connected.
Department of Human Services - DHS
Disability Support Services
Disability Discrimination Legal Service
The DDLS provides information about disability discrimination law in a range of formats free to all members of the community.
Disability Online
Information for people with a disability, their families and carers.
Disability Services - DHS
Responsible for funding and providing a range of supports and services for people in Victoria with intellectual, physical, sensory and dual disabilities, neurological impairments and acquired brain injury.
Down Syndrome Association of Victoria
Down Syndrome Support Group - Parent to Parent
Coffee group for parents of children with Down Syndrome aged 0-6 years.
Phone Henri: 9689 4799
Meets first Monday of each month (except school holidays) 10am - 12pm
Westarc, 35 Powell Drive, Hoppers Crossing
Early Childhood Intervention Services
Supports children with a disability or developmental delay from birth to school entry and their families. ECIS provides special education, therapy, counselling, service planning and coordination, assistance and support to access services such as kindergarten and child care.
Interchange Victoria
Interchange agencies across Victoria provide a wide range of programs and services. The main service provided is the host program which provides respite, as well recreational opportunities. To find out more about these programs please click ‘Our programs and services’ and ‘what is respite?’. To gain insight into the lives of people involved in Interchange, please click ‘Living with a disability’.
Wyndham "Chat & Chew Group"
Meets monthly - for details contact
Gayle McPherson (Western) 9396 1111
Suite 6, Ashley House, 75 Ashley Street
Braybrook 3019
Isis Primary Care - 9296 1200
Offering counselling, general health, occupational therapy, youth & family services, drug & alcohol services, aged & disability services.
Job Connections
Job Connections provides a FREE SERVICE to job seekers with a disability. Job Connections has a proven track record and a high success rate, helping Job Seekers with a disability find employment that suits their employment wants and needs.
Kids Plus Foundation
A not for profit organisation that provides intensive goal focused therapy programs for babies, children and teenagers with cerebral palsy, brain injury and stroke in the wider Barwon Region.
Mambourin Enterprises Inc
Mambourin Enterprises is a support and training organisation for adults with intellectual and other disabilities. Providing day care, training facilities, and supported employment opportunities, at four independent campuses.
Melbourne City Mission
Disability Services
National Disability Abuse and Neglect Hotline 1800 880 052
The National Disability Abuse and Neglect Hotline on 1800 880 052, is an Australia-wide telephone hotline for reporting abuse and neglect of people with disabilities. 1800 301 130 (TTY), 1800 555 677 (NRS) and 131 450 (TIS).
Noah's Ark Inc
Noah’s Ark is a not-for-profit statewide organisation assisting children with disabilities and their families. Noah's Ark runs early intervention programs and inclusion support agencies in the State of Victoria.
Respite North and West
Respite North & West is a website designed to improve communication and access to information for all people with an interest in disability respite issues living in the North & West Metropolitan Region of Melbourne. This includes people with a disability, families/carers of children and adults with a disability, service providers, and other people interested in respite issues.
Scope
Scope is committed to overcoming the personal, structural and attitudinal barriers that prevent those with disability from participating in community life and works to make our community more inclusive, more accessible and more welcoming.
Sunrise Women's Group
The Sunrise Women's Groups are run by women with a disability for women with a disability. The Sunrise Groups meet on the first Friday of the month in Laverton, and the last Friday of the month in Werribee, providing new skills, friendship and fun for women of all ages, with any kind of disability.
Victorian Network on Recreation & Disability (VICNORD)
Funded by Sport and Recreation Victoria and is a statewide information and advocacy network of people with disabilities, their carers and advocacy groups in relation to recreation, sport, physical activity, tourism and the arts.
Werribee Special Links
A support group for parents and carers of children with disabilities. Phone Gaynor: 9741 4280
Meets 1st Thursday of each month
10.30am - 12.30pm @ the
Mambourin Café, Ballan Road, Werribee
Western Leisure Alliance (WLA)
Western Leisure Alliance (WLA) is an active group of organisations working collaboratively to support and promote meaningful participation in community recreation opportunities for people with a disability within the Western Region.
WestArc - Early Childhood Intervention Program
WestArc offers a two day sibling support program during the school holidays from 10am to 1pm. Siblings are encouraged to attend both sessions if possible, as the program is designed for two days.
Western Region Disability Network
The WRDN brings together people with a disability, their families and carers, self-help groups, government, disability service providers, disability advocacy organisations, mainstream services and other individuals who have an interest in or who are working with people with a disability in the Western Metropolitan Region of Melbourne.
Wyndham Council Disability Services
Wyndham Mobility Booklet
Council, in partnership with the Wyndham Disability Advocacy Group (WYNDAG) have produced a Wyndham Mobility Booklet. This booklet provides access information for key local tourist attractions and community facilities. Hard copies of the booklet can also be obtained from Council on 9742 0829.
Young Carers
Do you help someone who has an illness, a disability, a mental health issue or a drug or alcohol problem? Then you might be a young carer and there is help and support available to you.
Many young carers tell us that caring can be a great thing to do - that they're proud of who they are and what they do and that they've built up a whole swag of useful skills. Sometimes though young carers say that caring can affect how they feel, how much time they get to spend with friends, doing schoolwork or holding down a job, and that often they need some help.
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