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- Adoptions before 2010: applying if you're under 18
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- Are you homeless?
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- Support for older people and adults with disability
- Protecting older people and adults with a disability from abuse
- Management Transfer Program
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- Help with housing and homelessness
- Domestic and family violence
- About domestic and family violence
- My situation is...
- I get hurt but don't want to end the relationship
- I was sexually assaulted
- I want to end the relationship but stay in my home
- I want to leave but need a place to stay
- I'm the one hurting my partner
- I want to help someone in a domestic violence situation
- I want to report child abuse
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- I'm a child or young person and home doesn't feel safe
- I'm Aboriginal and experiencing domestic and family violence
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- Deliver services to children and families
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- Early intervention services
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- OOHC services
- OOHC Health resources and tools
- OOHC Health Pathway caseworkers guide
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- OOHC 2A Primary Health Screen forms
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- Consent for medical and dental treatment of children and young people in statutory OOHC
- Medical and Dental Consent Tool
- Medicare number processes for children and young people entering OOHC
- Behaviour support guidelines for OOHC
- NSW Interagency Guidelines
- Introduction to the guidelines
- Legislation covering child protection and child wellbeing services in NSW
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- Guide to court processes involving children and young people
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- Tenant Participation Resource Services Program
- Assisted boarding houses
- What is an assisted boarding house?
- General boarding houses and residents with additional needs
- NDIS and assisted boarding house residents under the age of 65
- My Aged Care and assisted boarding house residents aged 65 years and over
- Screening Tool for Entry to Assisted Boarding Houses
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- Community housing providers
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- Work with Aboriginal communities
- Human Services Network (HSNet)
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- Community inclusion
- Community inclusion overview
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- Disability and inclusion
- Persons with Disability (Regulation of Restrictive Practices) Bill 2020
- Review of the Disability Inclusion Act
- Ageing and Disability Commissioner
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- Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation of People with Disability
- Disability Inclusion Act for people with disability
- Disability Inclusion Action Planning resources
- Lift and Change facilities
- Jobs for people with disability: A plan for the NSW public sector
- NSW Companion Card
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Last updated: 24 Sep 2019