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Community Access Respite Services Inc
Address
32 Farrant Street, Stafford Heights, Qld, Australia, 4053
Telephone
07 3350 6651
Fax
07 3350 6672
E-mail
Disability
  • Acquired Brain Injury
  • Alzheimer's Disease
  • Amputees
  • Autism Spectrum Disorders
  • Blindness & Vision Impairment
  • Cerebral Palsy
  • Chronic Fatigue Syndrome / Myalgic Encephalomyelitis
  • Crohn's Disease
  • Cystic Fibrosis
  • Deafblindness
  • Deafness & Hearing Impairment
  • Dermatological Disorders
  • Down Syndrome
  • Dyslexia
  • Dyspraxia
  • Emphysema
  • Fragile X syndrome
  • Huntingtons Disease
  • Metabolic Disorders
  • Motor Neurone Disease
  • Multiple Sclerosis
  • Muscular Dystrophy
  • Neurodegenerative Disorders
  • Neuromuscular Chromosomal Disorders
  • Neuromuscular Disorders
  • Osteogenesis Imperfecta
  • Other Recognised Disabilities
  • Paraplegia & Quadriplegia
  • Parkinsons Disease
  • Phenylketonuria
  • Poliomyelitis
  • Prader-Willi Syndrome
  • Psychiatric Disorders
  • Rett Syndrome
  • Spina Bifida
  • Tourette Syndrome
  • Wolf Hirschhorn Syndrome
Community Access Respite Services Inc (C.A.R.S.) is a community based in home respite non-profit organisation that is funded by Home and Community Care and Disability Services Queensland. CARS provides professional support to carers and young people with a disability. Service offered by C.A.R.S. include in home respite, personal care, domestic assistance and social support.

Services offered by C.A.R.S. includes:
• support for the individual in their own home whilst family members can take an opportunity for some time out

• Assisting the Individual with personal care needs (showering, bathing, meals etc.)

• Social Support Workers
• Management of Post School & Adult Lifestyle Packages

• Management of Summer Respite Program

• Providing Support and Professional Counselling

• Coffee Club social get together

• Advocacy a support organisation that can talk on your behalf
Manage complaints and grievances process

• Keep consumers informed of any important issues relating to provided service

• Encouragement of feedback about the service at any time

• Brokerage; contracting respite carers to help with respite commitments so that clients are not left without a carer.