Live capacity
10 beds available now across five robust standard homes.
Member, Australasian Association of Forensic DisabilitySupport Coordination
I'm a Support Coordinator
You need a provider who picks up, answers honestly, and does not create work for you afterwards.
Capability, response times and referral →Justice, Corrections and Youth Justice
I Have a Release Date
You have an order, a date, and a person who needs somewhere to go and someone there when they arrive.
In reach, timelines and placement →Participants and Families
It's For Me or Someone I Love
You want to know what the support actually looks like, and whether it is any good.
What we do and how it works →100%
Forensic and justice specialist focus
25
Trained forensic disability support workers
5
Robust standard homes across Queensland
2 hrs
Referral response time
Forensic Is Not A Service Line Here. It Is The Whole Business.
For most providers a forensic referral is the exception. It arrives with a risk history, a court date, conditions, and a plan that does not quite fit. It gets declined, or handed to whoever is free that week.
FDSQ has no other kind of client. Every worker completes a two week forensic induction before their first shift. Every home is built to robust standard. Every process assumes a court, an order or a case manager on the other side of it.
We are not a generalist provider with a forensic team. There is nothing else here.
Direct Support, Built For Complexity.
FDSQ delivers support work only. Three service lines, one specialisation.
Supported Independent Living
Robust standard homes across Queensland, funded through SIL. Not SDA enrolled, so no SDA approval is required.
See our homes →Daily Living and In Home Support
Personal care, medication support, routine and structure in the participant's own home, including high intensity supports under nurse oversight.
Daily living support →Community Access and Capacity Building
Structured time out of the house. Appointments, reporting obligations, education and employment pathways, and the daily activity that holds a placement together.
Community access →Available 1:1, 2:1 and at higher ratios where risk requires it. Active overnights, sleepovers and 24/7 rosters.
Robust Standard Homes
Robust Built. SIL Funded. No SDA Approval Required.
The most common reason a justice involved participant cannot be placed is that the home that would actually suit them requires Robust SDA funding they do not have, and are unlikely to get in the time available.
FDSQ homes are built and fitted to robust standard, but they are not SDA enrolled and they do not require SDA funding. If your participant holds SIL funding, they can move in.
Sole occupancy and shared placements available. Addresses provided on request.
Built Around What Actually Reduces Risk.
The research is consistent. Stable accommodation, structured daily activity, continuity of worker, and fast information flow between the people managing an order are the factors most associated with lower reoffending. FDSQ is built around those four things, deliberately.
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Stable accommodation
Robust standard homes held on head lease, so a placement does not collapse because a tenancy did. Sole occupancy where risk requires it.
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Structured daily activity
Community access and capacity building rostered around appointments, reporting obligations and program requirements, not around our convenience.
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Continuity of worker
Workers matched within four days and held on the placement. No unfilled shifts. Every worker completes a two week forensic induction before their first shift.
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Fast information flow
Court ready shift notes. Incidents reported within 12 hours. We attend case conferences, release planning meetings and multidisciplinary team meetings at no charge.
Drawn from the established research on desistance and post release stability. We make no claim about our own reoffending outcomes, and we do not publish statistics we cannot evidence.
Who We Support.
If the referral involves an order, a condition, a release date or a court, it belongs here.
Forensic Orders (Disability) and Forensic Orders (Mental Health)
Participants on bail, parole and probation
Release from custody and community corrections orders
Participants subject to Dangerous Prisoners (Sexual Offenders) Act orders
Court ordered and QCAT related placements
Young people on youth justice orders, from age 10
Participants transitioning 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
We do not screen referrals on offence type. We assess whether we can support the person safely, and we tell you either way within two hours.
What We Will Say No To.
We would rather say no in two hours than take a referral we cannot hold and hand it back to you in six weeks.
Where the ratio needed is not funded
If the risk needs 2:1 and the plan funds 1:1, we say so. We will help you evidence what is needed. We will not staff below safe.
Where a shared placement fails compatibility
If the referred person and an existing resident cannot safely share, that option ends there. We do not manage around an incompatibility to fill a bed.
Where the need is clinical, not disability support
Acute mental health treatment, detox and inpatient care are not what we do. We will say so, and help you work out who does.
Where we cannot staff the region in time
If the release date is inside a window we cannot recruit and induct for, you hear that immediately, not in week two.
And When Something Goes Wrong.
Sometimes it will. What separates providers is not whether incidents happen. It is the twelve hours afterwards.
Within 12 hours
You hear it from us
In writing. What happened, what was done, what we are changing. Before the participant or the family tells you.
Immediately
Escalation is already written
Absconding, breach and missing person protocols are trained before a first shift. You and the authorities are contacted at the same time, not in sequence.
Agreed in advance
Exit criteria exist from day one
What triggers a review, and what the alternatives are, is documented before the placement starts. A breakdown becomes a planned step, not a crisis.
Never
A notice and a walk away
If it is not working you hear it early, with what we tried and what should happen next. We do not exit a participant into nothing.
What A Placement Looks Like.
Illustrative examples. These are composite scenarios written to show how we work. They are not real participants.
Release from custody, Brisbane
Intellectual disability and psychotic illness, released to parole with no accommodation. Two in reach visits before release. Sole occupancy robust standard home in the Wacol corridor. 2:1 for six weeks, stepped to 1:1 by week ten. Parole officer copied on a written summary every week.
Youth justice, Logan
Fifteen, on a supervised order, living with family, at risk of breaching through non attendance. Community access four afternoons a week around the reporting schedule and a return to education plan. In home support across the weekend. No accommodation component.
Forensic order step down, Townsville
Moving from a forensic mental health unit into the community on a forensic order. Robust standard home, active overnight support, high intensity medication management, restrictive practices implemented as authorised. Monthly written reporting to the treating team.
Who Stands Behind The Placement.
Riwaj Subedi
Nurse Consultant, Clinical Oversight
Clinical governance across high intensity supports, medication and worker competency. No worker delivers a high intensity support until Riwaj has signed them off, on that support, for that participant.
Hayley Slack
Client Oversight
Oversight of outcomes across every placement. Hayley's question is not whether the shifts were filled. It is whether the placement is holding and the person is moving forward. When the answer is no, she escalates.
Monthly forensic clinical supervision
Two hours every month, the whole team, with a forensic clinical psychologist. Live placements, escalating behaviours and current risk, worked through together. It is why our workers are not learning this cohort one incident at a time.
NDIS Registered Provider 450249132
No worker is rostered without a cleared NDIS Worker Screening Check
Blue Cards held by all workers supporting young people
Public liability and professional indemnity insurance held
Approved to implement restrictive practices
Member, Australasian Association of Forensic Disability
First Nations Participants
A Significant Share Of The People Referred To Us Are First Nations.
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are dramatically over represented at every stage of the Queensland justice system, and more so again among people with disability. Any provider working only in this space supports a high proportion of First Nations participants.
Cultural safety is a dedicated module in our induction, taught against that reality rather than as general awareness. Where a participant wants connection to family, community or a Community Justice Group kept, it is written into the plan as a support, not treated as a risk.
We work alongside Community Justice Groups, ATSILS and community controlled organisations whenever a participant or their family wants it.
The Questions We Get Asked First.
Straight answers. If yours is not here, call us.
Do you decline referrals based on offence type?
No. We support participants on DPSOA orders, and participants with sexual offence and arson histories, on a sole occupancy basis. What we assess is whether we can put the right staffing and the right home around the person safely. You get a yes or a no within two hours.
Does my participant need SDA funding to move into one of your homes?
No. Our homes are built to robust standard but they are not SDA enrolled, so no SDA approval or application is required. SIL funding is what is needed. This is the blocker we exist to remove.
What if my participant does not have SIL funding yet?
Then the placement is not immediate, and we will say so straight away. What we can do is deliver community access and in home support meanwhile, and give you the functional detail from those shifts to evidence what is required. A reassessment argued from twelve weeks of shift notes is a very different conversation to one argued from a prediction.
How fast can you place someone?
Five to seven days where accommodation is already funded and available. Seven to fourteen days into one of our own homes, from a complete referral. If the date is tighter, call us and we will tell you honestly whether it can work.
Do you provide support coordination?
No. FDSQ delivers support work only. Community access, daily living, Supported Independent Living and high intensity supports.
Will you visit my participant in custody before release?
Yes, as many times as is useful. Those visits build a real picture of risk, routine and what the person wants, before any formal assessment is written. By release day the participant has already met the worker who will be there.
Do you charge for case conferences and court attendance?
No. Case conferences, release planning meetings, multidisciplinary team meetings and court attendance are not billed.
Do you implement restrictive practices?
Yes. We are approved to implement restrictive practices, and we implement Positive Behaviour Support Plans authored by the participant's own practitioner, with the recording and reporting that goes with them.
Do you support young people?
Yes, from age 10, through in home support and community access built around reporting obligations, education and family. Our homes are for adults. We never place a person under 18 in a home with adults. Every worker supporting a young person holds a current Blue Card.
What happens if the participant is currently with another provider?
A large share of our referrals, and not a problem. We work to whatever transition the participant and their coordinator want, including running alongside an existing provider during handover. We never ask anyone to end an arrangement before a replacement is in place.
Do you work outside South East Queensland?
Yes. Homes in Logan, Ipswich, the Brisbane and Wacol corridor, Townsville and Cairns. Support delivered statewide, including the Gold Coast, Sunshine Coast, Toowoomba and Bundaberg.
Still have a question? Call 0439 143 082.
Tell Us About The Referral.
Send what you have. You do not need documents to start. We come back within two hours with a straight answer on whether we can take it.
0439 143 082Seven days a week. Outside business hours the number reaches a person, not a message bank.
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.