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Queensland Advocacy for Inclusion (QAI)

QAI is a systemic and independent advocacy organisation and specialist community legal center for people with disability.
- Human rights law: provides specialist legal assistance to vulnerable people with disability in Queensland
- Mental Health Advocacy is a specialist legal service dedicated to providing information, advice, referrals and representation in relation to involuntary treatment under the Mental Health Act 2016 (Qld)
- Justice Support Program provides non-legal advocacy for people with disability who are involved in the criminal justice system
- NDIS Appeals Support provides advocacy, support, and referral to people with disability and their families for National Disability Insurance Scheme reviews and appeals
- Young Peoples Program - Individual advocacy for children and young people with disability to support them to uphold their rights, interests and increase control over their lives.

St Vincent de Paul Society - South Brisbane

The St Vincent de Paul Society Queensland helps all people in need, giving them a hand up in a number of different ways.

TAFE Queensland Senior College

Senior College offers an alternative learning pathway for Year 11 and Year 12 students.

Our school encourages and values community involvement and recognises that support in all forms helps young people realise their goals and shift their trajectory. Some of our students have traversed very challenging paths, and their stories speak of feeling alone, family violence, missing their caregivers, and wanting to give up. Compared to the average Queensland school, our students experience more mental health challenges, financial difficulties and homelessness.

Your support will help our staff deliver a trauma-informed, person-centred educational experience where every individual matters and their particular needs are heard and responded to.

We are committed to creating a positive, supportive environment where young adults can work towards their Queensland Certificate of Education (QCE) and an establish a future they deserve.

Youth Advocacy Centre Inc

YAC offers free legal services, youth support and family support assistance and services to young people generally 10 to 18 years (inclusive) particularly those who are involved in, or are at risk of involvement in, the youth justice and/or the child protection systems, and/or are homeless or at risk of homelessness and live in or around the greater Brisbane region.

Downs & West Community Support

DWCS is a ministry of the Sisters of Charity. If offers encouragement and practical support to people in rural and remote areas of QLD who are affected by destructive climatic conditions and matters beyond their control.

Welcoming Australia - QLD

A non-partisan movement and organisation committed to cultivating a culture of welcome and advancing an Australia where people of all backgrounds have equal opportunity to belong, contribute and thrive.

Albert Park Flexible Learning Centre

Albert Park Flexible Learning Centre is a co-educational learning community catering for young people between 14 and 25 years of age. Albert Park Flexible Learning Centre offers a families program and young parents are welcome and encouraged to attend. Young people are enrolled in either junior or senior and are registered for the Queensland Certificate of Education through the Queensland Curriculum and Assessment Authority.

Australian Red Cross - QLD Emergency Services

Working towards the vision of human dignity, peace, safety and wellbeing for all

Australian Red Cross - Queensland Volunteering

Red Cross mobilises the power of humanity to bring people and communities together in times of need and builds on community strengths to achieve the required outcomes in Emergency Services, Migration Support, Community Programs and International Humanitarian Law.

Bravehearts Foundation Ltd

Bravehearts is an Australian child protection not-for-profit organisation, solely dedicated to the prevention and treatment of child sexual abuse.

Bravehearts:
- works holistically to educate, empower and protect children from child sexual abuse
- helps prevent child sexual abuse by educating young people about personal safety
- supports survivors and victims of child sexual abuse, and their non-offending family members, with accessible and affordable counselling, case management and advocacy
- educates and empowers communities through world-class child protection training courses
and risk management

Life Without Barriers - Family Intervention Service - Milton

Holistically supports families working with Child Safety to preserve or reunify the family unit.

PCYC - Lang Park

PCYC Queensland is a leading charity providing youth and community programs, services and facilities. Our signature sports include boxing, gymnastics, and martial arts, and we offer programs, outside school hours care, gym and fitness, and more for everyone.

Our staff and volunteers have been working alongside the Queensland Police Service to meet community needs across Queensland since 1948.

Together, we are building safer, healthier communities through youth development.

The Benevolent Society - Milton

The Milton office in Brisbane is home to Post Adoption Support Queensland and the Queensland headquarters of Social Leadership Australia.

Footprints Community - Housing Older Women Support Service

Older women are the fastest growing group of people at risk of housing distress and homelessness in Australia.

Footprints Housing Older Women Support Service (HOWSS) offers a Brisbane-based Hub, a state-wide online navigation and support service, inclusive of all older women experiencing housing distress or homelessness.

HOWSS provides a place where older women can receive:

• assistance to find housing and support assistance
• face-to-face contact with skilled staff
• volunteer peer support from people with lived experience
• telephone and online advice and advocacy
• outreach services
• information and linkages to other human service support agencies
• engagement and education sessions for older women, and the sector
• state-wide collaborative regional responses.

Immigrant Women's Support Service

The Immigrant Women's Support Service provided domestic and/or sexual violence support services to a total of 767 women from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds for the 2018-2019 financial year. In addition, a total of 207 individuals were assisted with emergency relief to alleviate financial distress.

Kummara Association Inc - Chandler

Kummara Association Inc. is an Indigenous Community Organisation formed in 1999 to provide services to the Indigenous and non-Indigenous Community.

Our hope is to support and nurture resilient children, families and communities by responding to issues at the personal, social and structural levels in society.

LGBTI Legal Service Inc.

We are a community legal centre that provides free legal advice and representation on LGBTIQA+ issues, including law reform.

Micah Projects - Lotus Place Stones Corner

Lotus Place is a dedicated support service and resource centre for Forgotten Australians and Former Child Migrants.

Pathways to Resilience Charity Trust

An outline of our pilot Empowering Youth to Thrive project (EYTT).

Pathways to Resilience Charity Trust’s core area is to specialise in educating the educators (and people from cradle to grave) about how we can learn to change the brain and how we can improve social and emotional wellbeing in families and communities.

This pilot project moved from Browns Plains to a space in Loganholme.
We do not have in our current budget for some building materials, appliances and musical instruments, amps and drum kits.

To help young ATSI, Pacifica and non-indigenous youth (15-24) at risk of long term unemployment to either engage in further education or find and keep a job by building their social and emotional wellbeing skills using a neuroscience and growth mindset approach.

Save the Children Australia

Save the Children is one of Australia's largest aid and development agencies dedicated to helping children. They work hard to protect children from harm and help them access quality education and health services.

With more than 90 years working with children globally, Save the Children has been running programs in Australia for more than 60 years.

Save the Children started helping children in Australia in the 1950's. Our first Australian programs focused on early education for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children. With significant growth since then, we now run education and child protection programs for disadvantaged communities in urban, regional and remote locations right around Australia.

Sisters Inside Inc - Brisbane

Established in 1992, Sisters Inside is an independent community organisation based in Queensland, which advocates for the collective human rights of women and girls in prison, and their families, and provides services to address their individual needs.

Speaking Up for You

Speaking Up for You (SUFY) is an independent Individual Advocacy organisation for people with a disability who live in Brisbane, Moreton Bay and Redlands regions. We stand beside and with vulnerable people with disability so that they can feel confident their voice is heard.

Synapse

Synapse (formally the Brain Injury Association of Qld) is a NFP organisation that exists to support individuals whose behaviour challenges our understanding and has prevented inclusion within the community, and access to the supports needed. We support individuals with varied levels of both physical and cognitive disabilities.

The Music Trust - Resound Bushfire Appeal

Resound is a program of the Music Trust/Australian Arts Trust. We replace musical instruments and musical equipment lost in bushfires and floods with donated musical instruments and donated musical equipment.

West End Uniting Church

We assist asylum seekers, refugees and homeless people with food, clothes, accommodation and household items.
Charitable purposes were pursued through the activities and provision of the services listed. Religious activities in particular were pursued through the coming together and sharing of worship, provision of christian education, nurture, pastoral care and engagement in mission.