About FDSQ
Built For One Cohort.
Forensic Disability Supports Queensland exists because justice involved participants were being supported by providers who were never designed for them, by workers who were never trained for it, in houses that were never built for it.
Why We Only Do This.
The average NDIS provider manages twenty or more conditions. That is not a criticism, it is a business model, and for most participants it works.
It stops working where the cohort has requirements the generalist model cannot carry. Forensic participants arrive with an order attached, a risk profile that has to be actively managed, documentation that runs to a court, housing a standard rental cannot provide, and consequences for failure unlike anyone else's.
When a placement fails elsewhere, it is disruptive. When a placement fails here, it is a breach, a return to custody, or a person sleeping in a car.
So the whole business is built around one cohort. Two week induction before a worker meets a participant. Every home robust standard. Every shift note written assuming a magistrate might read it. Clinical supervision with a forensic psychologist, because the questions our workers bring are forensic questions.
None of that survives as a service line inside a larger business. It only works if it is the only thing you do.
Two Weeks Before The First Shift.
Every FDSQ worker completes a two week Forensic Disability Support Worker induction before they meet a participant. Not a module list they click through at home. Two weeks.
Orders and conditions
Forensic orders, parole, bail, probation, DPSOA and youth justice orders, and what each one means for a worker on shift.
Forensic risk awareness
Triggers, escalation patterns, situational risk, and recognising a change in presentation early enough to act on it.
Maybo advanced training
Physical intervention, restraint and safe response, delivered to advanced level.
De-escalation
Communication under threat, and the decisions that get made in the ninety seconds before anything else happens.
Restrictive practice implementation
Implementing an authorised practice exactly as written, recording it, and reporting it.
Medication and high intensity
Medication management and high intensity support fundamentals, ahead of individual competency sign off.
Progress notes and documentation
Writing to court ready standard. Functional, specific, timestamped, defensible.
Incident response
Identifying, responding to and reporting incidents, including reportable incident obligations.
Boundaries and grooming awareness
Professional boundaries in both directions, and recognising grooming behaviour early.
Substance use and dual diagnosis
Working with substance use and co occurring mental illness without treating either as the whole person.
Absconding and breach response
Missing person and breach protocols, escalation sequence, and who gets told what, in what order.
Cultural safety
Delivered with specific reference to the over representation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in the justice system.
And Then, Every Month
The whole FDSQ support team meets for two hours of group supervision with a forensic clinical psychologist. Live placements, escalating behaviours and current risk, worked through as a team. It is the reason our workers are not learning this cohort one incident at a time.
Our Workers Are Not Learning This On Your Participant.
FDSQ employs Forensic Disability Support Workers. A specific role with a specific induction, not a general support worker handed a difficult client.
Alongside them we recruit people who already know this system from the inside. Former corrections officers. Youth workers. Forensic mental health nurses. People who have sat in the meetings and read the orders.
The practical effect is that our workers are not nervous. A worker who is uneasy about the person in front of them makes worse decisions, escalates faster and writes thinner notes. A worker who has done this before does not.
Forensic Disability Support Workers
Two week specialist induction completed before the first shift, without exception.
Former corrections officers
Workers who already understand orders, conditions and custodial environments.
Youth workers
Experience with young people in and around the youth justice system.
Forensic mental health nurses
Clinical experience with participants stepping down from forensic settings.
Who Stands Behind Every Placement.
Riwaj Subedi
Nurse Consultant, Clinical Oversight
Riwaj holds clinical governance across FDSQ. High intensity supports, medication management, and the competency of every worker delivering them.
No FDSQ worker delivers a high intensity support until Riwaj has assessed and signed them off, on that specific support, for that specific participant. Not a general certificate. A named sign off.
Hayley Slack
Client Oversight
Hayley holds oversight of participant outcomes across every FDSQ placement. Her question is not whether the shifts were filled. It is whether the supports actually in place are holding the placement together, and whether the person is moving forward.
Where the answer is no, she escalates it, and the referrer hears about it from us first.
Registration and Membership.
Registration number 450249132
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Two hours to an answer, either way. Seven days a week.
Make a ReferralOr call 0439 143 082.