Who is eligible for mental health services under the National Disability Insurance Scheme?

According to the NDIA, people dealing with “a psychiatric condition who have significant and permanent functional impairment” qualify for the NDIS mental health services.

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Community Navigator - Full time position

This is a full-time, fixed term position until January 2022 supporting individuals across the Bundaberg region on the Cashless Debit Card. As a Community Navigator, you will support individuals one-on-one to access a range of support services in...
Support Worker

As part of our Family Mental Health Support Service (FMHSS) team, you will provide non-clinical support to children affected by or at risk of mental illness and to their families and carers'. This part-time role has been created to assist with Paren
Enrich your life and the lives of others with IMPACT's visitors program

“Volunteering brings benefits to both the visitor and the person visited,” says IMPACT's Community Visitors Scheme manager Heather Hinsbey.
IMPACT traineeship helps Heath land dream job

Heath Tisdell did everything right when he decided to pursue a career in land care: he decided on his direction and signed up with IMPACT Community Services. Heath is doing a Certificate I in Conservation and Land Management.

Individual Support

IMPACT Community Services offers one-on-one support tailored your way so you can achieve your goals. Our experienced team of support workers will help you develop the skills, confidence and social connections you need so you can participate more fully in the community and workforce.
Centre based activities

IMPACT Community Services offers a broad range of activities that not only develop key life skills, but many of which also help participants broaden their pre-vocational skill set. And they’re great fun. Our staff work hard to promote socialisation.
Community based activities

Get more involved with your community, be social, and participate in recreational activities with our range of social and community supports designed to help you enjoy your hobbies, see your friends, and have some fun. At IMPACT Community Services the focus is on providing a safe, social setting.
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Community Choir

The IMPACT Community Choir began in 2011 and now consists of more than 80 people who love to sing. Our Choir members are people with a disability, support workers, volunteers and IMPACT staff.

Chris finds a new career and a new lease on life

When Chris Burns was made redundant at his last job, little did he know that learning how to make coffee would help make him a better person. Chris is one of the current students at IMPACT Community Services' SIT30616 Certificate III in Hospitality course, and he's been far more grateful for the opportunities it has presented him than he realised when he first signed up.
How IMPACT nurse is coping with COVID-19 after having first baby

IMPACT community nurse shares her experience having her a baby in these COVID-19 times. Emma Krampera says the support from her "work family" has been amazing and comforting as she deals with the COVID-19 enforced restrictions.
Lesley finds her dream job

IMPACT Community Services’ new Team Leader for Positive Start parenting Lesley Allen knows she has found her dream job.
Carrying on her mother’s caring legacy through CVS

Dael Giddins has a long history of serving her community, so it was no surprise to anyone when she decided to sign up as a volunteer in IMPACT Community Services' Community Visitor Scheme. But Dael was in for a surprise when she learned that her mother was the very first IMPACT CVS volunteer in Gayndah. She signed up in 2002 and visited Gayndah's elderly residents for 10 years.
IMPACT staff help couple who lost $500

WORKERS at IMPACT Community Service’s Material Recycling Centre and Bundaberg Regional Council officers have come to the aid of a distraught retired couple who thought they’d lost $500. The money was placed in an old phone book for “safekeeping”. However, the book was later put into the recycling bin with the couple realising what had happened after their bin had been collected.
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IMPACT's Sharmaine adjusts to new normal working from home

Sharmaine Gernhoefer has noticed a few advantages to working from home, one of which is the absence of distractions of a normal office environment. People walking in and out, phone conversations taking place at the next table and staff members talking to each other were all part of normal life for the IMPACT Community Services’ family mental health support worker. But not these days.
Tammy brings colour to world of volunteering

Tammy Bentley is bringing life and colour to elderly residents in IMPACT’s Community Visitors Scheme (CVS) through her talents as a colourist.
Marina shares recipe to a healthier you through COVID-19

IMPACT Community Health Service launches new health program for Discovery Coast residents during COVID-19. Engage in U will help get people moving and eating well.
EXPLAINED: How to work on your employability skills while stuck at home

A team leader at IMPACT Community Services who supports young people who are out of work has shared her key messages to help those struggling through COVID-19. IMPACT’s Transition to Work Leader Laura Bray said there was a range of things people could do to work on their employability skills at home.