Community support

• Adventure Based Learning

  The Outlook is a Registered Training Organisation (RTO), which supports prevention and early intervention strategies using Adventure Based Learning methods and techniques.

• 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.

• 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)

  The government funds these organisations because they are close to the community and have a good knowledge of local opportunities and needs. This could include childcare, neighbourhood programs, crisis support or disability-related 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.