Home and Community Based Services
Allied Health Services
Support Coordination
Peer Support
Community Networks
AQA was established in 1987 by a group of people with quadriplegia who saw a need for improved access to information, support and employment opportunities for people living with a spinal cord injury. Today, AQA has grown into a strong and diverse community. We support each other to live full and enriching lives by sharing our knowledge and lived experience of a range of complex physical disabilities, through our services, our resources, and our relationships.
Whether it’s daily living support, achieving specific goals, boosting your independence, adjusting to a change in circumstances, or just meeting folks with shared experience, it’s likely we can help. And if we can’t, we’ll find someone who can.
You can find us:
worth of combined knowledge in our Lived-Experience Team, made up of 13 staff.
staff support people with disability in the community
volunteers that have dedicated their time, knowledge and resources to living well since 1987.
hours of one on one peer coaching and peer mentoring delivered in hospitals, rehabs, at home or on the phone.
hours of collective peer lead activity received by participants
contacts and connections made with individuals at home, hospital or at our networks.
Our journey is far from over, and we rely on our community to keep us learning and growing in the right direction. If you would like to join us on that journey, we would love to have you – in whatever capacity suits you. Get in touch to find out how.
More InformationThe AQA service model draws on our decades of experience supporting people to live well with spinal cord injuries and other complex conditions. We build partnerships.
Through a wide range of events, AQA resources people whose lives have been disrupted by injuries, illnesses and disability to participate in all aspects of life. Our extensive wealth of lived experience and consultation informs and shapes our offerings, from personal development courses, workshops, information sessions, wheelchair / transfer skills sessions, to network meetings and more.
Connect with our community through stories and resources: learn how people have managed common challenges, share in their joys and achievments, and share your own.
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AQA acknowledges that we live and work on lands stolen from the oldest continuous culture on earth. While our office is on the lands of the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nation, we live and work on First Nations lands across Victoria. We acknowledge that sovereignty was never ceded, and that this was, and always will be, Aboriginal land. We pay our deepest respect to Elders past and present, and we thank them for holding wisdom and caring for country. We also acknowledge that AQA’s work of building a more caring and inclusive society - where everyone has the resources they need to live well - follows in the footsteps of a long and ongoing struggle of First Nations peoples across the continent to be afforded the self determination, respect and resources they need to live well.
Disability doesn’t discriminate, so our community is as diverse as the richly diverse culture we exist in. Having the fullest version of ourselves on display, seen and appreciated, is a fundamental aspect of living a full and meaningful life. It is also the foundation from which the full benefit of our capacity building and empowering supports are accessed. Recognising this, we have developed an organisational culture where diversity is not just thoughtfully and respectfully accommodated, but truly celebrated - be it ethnicity, religion, ability, age, gender, sexuality or gender identity.
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