Community support

• Offers of Assistance

  Business and corporate organisations wanting to offer assistance can register their details by completing the Corporate Offers of Assistance form. Non-government organisations and community groups requesting assistance can register their need by completing the NGO Request for Assistance Form.

• Queensland Companion Card

  Find out about the Companion Card program, how to apply for a card or to become an affiliated business.

• Carer Business Discount Card

  To recognise the valuable role carers play in the community, the Queensland Government has introduced the Carer Business Discount Card scheme. This new scheme builds on the existing Seniors Card and Seniors Business Discount Card partnership between business and government.

• Carers

  Information for carers.

• Children

  Information and resources about children: early education; nutrition; safety and parenting tips.

• Community services

  Information about the services the Department of Communities provides such as Individual support services and Counselling services for gamblers.

• Community recovery

  Following a disaster, the Department of Communities works to help the people affected restore their emotional, social, economic and physical wellbeing by providing and coordinating information, personal support, resources, specialist counselling, mental health services and community development services.

• Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Intersex (LGBTI) Queenslanders

  As part of the department’s commitment to creating fair and equitable services for all, consultative mechanisms have been established to seek input into departmental policies, programs and services that will make a difference to LGBT people.

• Queensland Government concessions

  Queensland Government concessions are available to eligible holders of a concession card such as seniors, people with a disability, carers, veterans, sole parents, widows and students.

• Forgotten Australians

  The Queensland Government recognises the experiences of people who experienced institutional or out-of-home care in Australia during the 20th Century and the difficult and often traumatic nature of these experiences and the impact on people's lives.

• Strengthening Non-Government Organisations (NGOs)

  A list of support and community information services.

• Suicide prevention

  The Department of Communities is one of 11 Queensland Government agencies responsible for implementing initiatives under the Queensland Government Suicide Prevention Strategy 2003-2008.

• Volatile substances

  Information about volatile substances and their misuse.

• Community support contacts

  Community support contacts.

• Community publications

  Information about departmental publications relating to community initiatives.