This group is a community for Queenslanders with disability who live in the Cairns area to come together, share, discuss and contribute to posts.You can visit the official website of Queenslanders with Disability Network at www.qdn.org.au and get in contact with us at peersupport@qdn.org.au
Celebrating all Abilities!
A group to help the NDIS community thrive in Cairns where providers (registered or non registered) can advertise their services and supports and participants have the choice and control.
See what providers have capacity, new providers to Cairns, call out for support workers, OT's, Speechie's, or ask about recommendations on just about anything.
Share any workshops / seminars / conferences in the group as well as your services, employment opportunities etc. The group is pretty much an open forum.
Support workers and providers are always seeing clients needing items, even the basic things.
Feel free to post anything that NDIS participants will find useful such as everyday living items, disability aides, or items for their wants & interests and simply cant afford to support them.
If you have any working white goods you no longer need, furniture, gardening items, plants, minerals & gems, arts and craft, playing board games anything at home laying around that you no longer need, please consider donating.
Anything to help!
Cairns Autism Info Billboard exists to provide information to interested persons.
Local support group on Tourette Syndrome
This private group is group is for neurodivergent adults in CAIRNS Australia with ASD and/or ADHD (Autism Spectrum Disorder and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity disorder), and related conditions: Sluggish Cognitive Tempo, ADD, Asperger's self-identifying, Dyslexia, Dyspraxia, Dyscalculia, Tourette's, OCD, anxiety, etc.
Chat with like minds, read interesting educational articles, post funny memes, and if you like to, attend a semi-regular Cairns meetup !
Cairns Warmline is a Non-For-Profit Community organization, providing a committed After Hours Service dedicated to helping the people of cairns and the surrounding districts struggling with mental illness, psychological or emotional distress.
If you suffer from any kind of disease, an invisible illness, depression, PTSD and Chronic Pain, this is a group where anyone in the Cairns area can feel safe to post about what they are going through, physically as well as emotionally and have the support from people going through the same thing. To know that you are not alone and there are people who understand exactly how you feel and are in our own little town rather than across the world. It's a safe place to vent when you're having a bad day, week or year!
It's also a place to post inspirational quotes or exercise suggestions, medical care, medications and diets that have work for others.
When support is provided by others who have similar experiences an atmosphere of respect and mutual helping develops.
Our monthly support group brings together people in the Cairns area, who care for, or about, someone diagnosed with a mental illness.
Our mental health carer's support group meets in Cairns Central on the 1st Thursday of every month between 1.30 pm and 3pm
It's easy to join us: email: carersforcarerscairns@gmail.com or Freecall: 1800 351 881 and ask about the ARAFMI Cairns Mental Health Carers Support Group
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National Disability Insurance Scheme Partner In The Community for Cairns NDIS Region (comprising Local Government Areas of Cairns, Douglas, Cassowary Coast, Yarrabah, Mareeba and Tablelands) delivering NDIS Early Childhood Early Intervention and Local Area Coordination Programs.
Their facebook groups posts local new services and provider capacity.
FNQ accessible housing dreams & SDA - run by Lynn Egan
Open discussions for yours or your loved ones accessible housing dreams, your advice, especially relating to NDIS & SDA, any suggestions. Hoping this will be a caring, sharing space to help each other achieve the dreams for those with a disability to have a home in Cairns, or surrounds, suitable for their specific needs, to live their lives as independently as their disability allows them.
This is a closed group for families and carers; a safe, private and friendly place to connect with Autism and other Special Needs Families.
Ask questions, get support, share information and resources!
You can also post any special needs equipment or resources you have for sale also.
No professionals in this group, families only.
After requesting to join this group, Admin will send you a message, so please check your junk or message requests folder.
A private facebook group to meet other families, ask questions and share stories.
Tablelands ASD Parent Support Group is a support group with the aim to provide peer support opportunities for parents and carers of children on the spectrum (with or without a diagnosis) across the Tablelands community.
We aim to achieve this goal with the guidance and consultation of parents/carers and the extended autism community.
We will be scheduling activities for the group alternating between Professional Development/Education sessions and Meet and Greet Support sessions.
Each month we will have one session in Mareeba and another in Atherton to allow parents/carers to have options in times that suit them.
For More information please contact the Every Family team on: 4091 6411
Tablelands Toy Library - https://www.facebook.com/groups/1432173930479060
Community Ability Network is a community of mutual support including private support providers, NDIS participants, carers and other professionals.
Improving transitions into study, work and support for people with disability in Cairns.
An open forum working together to enhance the life of people with disability through education, employment and supports.
A group to help the NDIS community thrive in Innisfail & The Cassowary Coast where providers can advertise their services and participants have the choice and control.
This group has been established to share support and to share knowledge and guidance between all professionals in our community.
Feel free to join the group if you are a participant/carer or provider for the region.
A neuroaffirming space. Be part of changing the narrative around autism, ADHD and other neurospicy states of being human. Try to view things through a social lens as well as a medical one. Celebrate neurodivergent culture.
A facebook group for Cairns and surrounding areas to buy and sell second hand disability equipment
A group for Providers, Participants and their support network to share information, advice, events and recommendations related to the NDIS.