We Meet Them Inside, Before They Walk Out.
We attend correctional and detention facilities before release, as many times as is useful. Those visits build a real picture of risk, triggers, routine and what the person actually wants, before a formal assessment is written.
By release day the participant has already met the worker who will be there. That is the single largest difference between a placement that holds and one that fails in week two.
Facilities we attend, including
Wolston Correctional Centre and the Wacol precinct
Arthur Gorrie Correctional Centre
Woodford Correctional Centre
Brisbane Women's Correctional Centre
Southern Queensland Correctional Centre
Capricornia Correctional Centre
Lotus Glen Correctional Centre
Townsville Correctional Complex
Cleveland Youth Detention Centre
Brisbane Youth Detention Centre
The Park Centre for Mental Health
This is not an exhaustive list. We attend statewide.
From Referral To Front Door.
Step 1 · Day zero
Referral
By phone or form. Answered within two hours with a yes or no, and a list of anything we still need.
Step 2 · Before release
In reach
We meet the participant inside, as many times as is useful. Real picture first, formal risk assessment second.
Step 3 · Two weeks out
Placement and staffing confirmed
Accommodation identified, compatibility screening completed where shared, workers matched within four days.
Step 4 · Release day
Someone he already knows
A worker the participant has met is there. Transport, first night, medication and the first week's routine already written down.
Step 5 · First twelve weeks
Stabilise, then step down
Higher ratios at the front end, reduced as the placement holds. Weekly written summaries. Incidents inside twelve hours.
What We Accept.
We do not screen referrals on offence type. What we assess is whether we can staff and house the person safely, and we answer either way within two hours.
Forensic Orders (Disability) and Forensic Orders (Mental Health)
Release to parole, probation and community corrections orders
Bail and court conditions requiring supported accommodation
Dangerous Prisoners (Sexual Offenders) Act orders, sole occupancy placements
Sexual offence and arson histories, sole occupancy placements
Youth justice orders from age 10, in home support and community access
Step down from forensic mental health settings
Participants with authorised restrictive practices in place
Dual diagnosis, substance use and complex behaviours of concern
Participants declined or exited by another provider
What We Are Not
FDSQ is a disability support provider. We are not a supervision or monitoring service and we do not act on behalf of a court, a parole board or a corrective services authority. We support the person, document accurately, and communicate quickly with the people who do hold that responsibility. Where an order affects daily life, our role is to make it possible for the person to meet it.
Young People On Youth Justice Orders.
We support young people with disability from age 10 who are on youth justice orders or at risk of entering the system, through in home support and community access built around reporting obligations, education and family.
Our homes are for adults. We do not place a person under 18 into a home with adults, in any circumstance. Where accommodation for a young person is the right answer, it is sole occupancy only and decided with everyone responsible for them.
Every worker supporting a young person holds a current Blue Card.
We deliver NDIS funded supports only. We hold no Youth Justice or Child Safety placement contracts, so the young person needs NDIS funding in place before we can start.
Notes That Hold Up In A Courtroom.
Every FDSQ shift note is written assuming someone other than us will read it. A magistrate. A parole officer. A treating team. The Commission.
Specific, functional, timestamped, behavioural. What happened, what was done, what the response was. Not an interpretation, and not "had a good day".
Documentation is the first thing that fails on a complex placement and the first thing asked for when something goes wrong. We train it for a week of the two week induction, and we audit it.
If you need the record, you get the record. Same day.
Tell Us The Release Date.
Even if it is tomorrow. We take urgent referrals seven days a week and we will tell you honestly what is possible in the time available.
0439 143 082Outside business hours this number reaches a person, not a message bank. Release dates do not wait for Monday.
Start a referral
Four fields to start: who the person is, what the order or condition is, and how to reach you. You do not need plan documents in front of you.
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01 · Within two hours
A yes or a no, and what we still need from you.
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02 · Within a day
A call, and where the participant is in custody, the first in reach visit is organised.
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03 · Within four days
Workers matched and the roster built around their actual obligations.