ARC Emergency support
To provide flexible and time limited supports to individuals with a disability, their families and carers who are in urgent and critical need and unable to access other forms of support..
Aims
- Provide a 'safety net' for people with a disability and/or their families/carers, by providing funds to an appropriate services to assist to maintain their lifestyle, whilst a realistic assessment for future needs can be evaluated and met, during a period of critical or urgent need.
- To provide funds to an appropriate service for immediate short term support to individuals and/or families/carers during a period of critical or urgent need, whilst ongoing support or long term plans are put in place.
- To provide funds to an appropriate service to support and give assistance to community members whom fall within the Target Group of the Service.
Disability Services Queensland
Service Details
The ARC Emergency Support Service may provide brokered funds to an appropriate service for in-home or community access support, in accordance with the programs guidelines, to people with a disability, their families/carers. The support service can provide assistance with personal care, household tasks, for example assistance with bathing, toileting, assistance with eating, meal preparation or any other appropriate tasks as negotiated with the service.
The service may provide funds to an appropriate service for emergency support to people with a disability aged from birth until age becomes their primary disability, and/or their families/carers, who are experiencing urgent critical or unusual need. Consumers should be living in the community and their long-term support arrangements are, or would be, at risk without access and intervention to short term relief.
Intervention by the service is to be viewed as a 'one-off' support or on a temporary basis to alleviate: Carer stress, Carer fatigue, Increased temporary supports required by individuals with a disability , Increased or continued challenging behaviours requiring temporary interim management strategies, Sudden and unexpected changes in the caring situation (illness/hospitalisation etc), An immediate need for aids and equipment.
SPECIFIC CRITERIA FOR ACCESS TO EMERGENCY RESPONSE PROGRAM
be between 0 to 65 years of age; have a disability as per the Disability Services Act, be experiencing an urgent and critical situation; require minimal one-off funded support to continue to maintain the family and caring situation; not specifically require ongoing recurrent/and or planned support; and the use of Emergency Response Program funding should be as a last resort.
