Hunter Accommodation and Respite Services is family owned and operated, proudly servicing the local community since 2001. We strive to provide quality care while catering for specific needs of our clients and their families. Our experienced and caring staff ensure sustainable services for people in need of care, while treating all our clients with respect. ​ We provide comprehensive, flexible and individually tailored programs, with a focus on individual strengths and needs, skill development, achievement of goals, and where appropriate, work readiness skills. We look forward to working with you.

Challenge Community Services, based in East Maitland, is a not-for-profit organisation founded in 1958. We are dedicated to providing Health Support and Community Services throughout regional and metropolitan NSW and Southern QLD. Our Foster Care program focuses on forging meaningful connections, ensuring the best possible match between children and foster carers. By prioritising stability, providing extensive training and ongoing support, we create a nurturing environment for children and young people to flourish. Join us in building resilient communities through compassion and care.

We might have a new name, but we’re not the new kids on the block. You once knew us as House with No Steps and The Tipping Foundation – two great organisations, with over 100 years of combined experience, who came together in 2018. Yes, we’re a disability service provider, but we’re also so much more. We’re the trusted partner of over 5000 people with a disability throughout the east coast of Australia. Aruma is leading the new age, the new world of disability support – the NDIS world. Aruma puts our customers first. And to do this we need you – staff who are brave, bold, and who dare to think differently.

breakthru is a national not-for-profit organisation committed to empowering people to create their own futures. Through the provision of high-quality person-centric programs, we enable thousands of people every year to address mental health, employment, disability, homelessness and training needs. breakthru operates on the premise that everyone’s needs, preferences and aspirations are different. Our commitment to client choice and family inclusion is well demonstrated through our individualised services and person-centred principles. We have a specific focus on assisting those most in need and offer specialist programs for those facing the challenge of an intensive mental health illness, a disability or physical health issue, long-term unemployment, unmet education goals or homelessness.

WE ARE A DISABILITY SUPPORT SERVICE PROVIDER IN LAKE MACQUARIE, NSW. We believe that our school aged children and young adults with disabilities need constant interaction and communication with their peers, those of similar age and interests to build and form friendships and life skills. Our goal is to commence social programs for school aged children and continue supporting their development and independence when they leave school. Our team at The Happy Human Hub have found that participants who choose to include educational games and programs integrated into their daily program, are continuing to show improvement in all areas including development in speech and communication, physical, tactile, gross and fine motor skills. We have chosen ‘fun, interactive' ways to support continuous learning in all aspects of the participant's plan, including physical activities, improve independence, educational learning, community access and social activities.

APlus Care4All Pty Ltd is a NDIS Service Provider located in the heart of the Hunter.

Michelle Santarelli has been working as a speech and language Pathologist since graduating from Newcastle University in 2004. Michelle has a passion for helping children with speech, language and literacy difficulties. Michelle has worked in an extensive variety of services over the years including community health settings, early intervention centres, preschools, school settings, hospitals and finally in private practice. Throughout this time, Michelle has undertaken extensive post graduate training in the areas of Autism Spectrum Disorder, early language stimulation, literacy intervention and learning disorders.

breakthru is a national not-for-profit organisation committed to empowering people to create their own futures. Through the provision of high-quality person-centric programs, we enable thousands of people every year to address mental health, employment, disability, homelessness and training needs. breakthru operates on the premise that everyone’s needs, preferences and aspirations are different. Our commitment to client choice and family inclusion is well demonstrated through our individualised services and person-centred principles. We have a specific focus on assisting those most in need and offer specialist programs for those facing the challenge of an intensive mental health illness, a disability or physical health issue, long-term unemployment, unmet education goals or homelessness.

Wise Mind Psychology is a Newcastle-based mental health collective that was built on the values of professional excellence, empathy, and respect. We believe everyone has the strength to live the life they value, and we are here to provide quality mental health care to help people achieve improved well-being. Our supportive team of accredited psychologists is dedicated to delivering the highest value evidence-based therapy in a non-judgmental, collaborative, and accepting way. We help our clients connect with one of our clinicians who best matches their personal needs and requirements.

Beyond Boundaries Rehab is a unique family ran business located in Newcastle and the Hunter. Born in 2016, we have worked hard to provide responsive services reflective of our values, purpose and the needs of our community. We are at our best, when working with people of all ages, living with complex movement disorders, brain injury, neurological disorders and spinal injury/disease. We have a strong passion for early intervention, education and capacity building and love working in a flexible way to suit your lifestyle and needs.

About Stepping Stones Is your child having difficulties with participating fully in their life? Are they less independent than you would like? Stepping Stones can help. We offer a wide range of occupational therapy services to assist you in helping your child to develop the skills and confidence they need to flourish. We see children from birth to 18 years and can offer a comprehensive assessment and individualised interventions to meet the needs of your child. We are available to see children in our clinics, their own homes, at school or in the community. Occupational Therapists (OT’s) are registered health professionals who help people overcome challenges in their everyday occupations. You might wonder what occupations your child has, and the answer to that is many! The primary occupation of childhood is play. Your child will spend many hours of the day engaged in different types of play activities, and during this time they are busy developing essential physical, sensory, social, emotional and cognitive (i.e., thinking) skills that lay the foundations for success in later life. Other childhood occupations include self-care tasks (e.g., feeding yourself, having a bath, washing your hair, getting dressed, doing up buttons and shoelaces etc.) and activities of productivity (e.g. kindy/school activities, handwriting, using scissors, doing chores etc.). Stepping Stones OT’s are trained to assess your child’s performance in these areas in order to determine the specific barriers to their success. Using this information we can then design a treatment program to meet your child’s individual needs. We then work with you in order to help your understanding and to give you practical tools and advice that you can use at home.

Hunter Care Group was the brainchild of our CEO Jarrod Burns. Having worked in the disability support industry for years, he was frustrated by seeing both clients and staff treated poorly – and he set out to change things for the better for everyone. Today, we’re a young, energetic, fresh-thinking team of mental health and disability support specialists on a mission to shake up the industry. We want participants to live life as comfortably and proactively as possible and staff to be happy in their work. We’re currently one of the largest NDIS providers in the Hunter region – with the potential to grow nationwide. However, expansion will only happen when we’re 100% confident we can still deliver the same high level of reliable, consistent and individualised support.

Nextcares. The future of Living with Disability in Newcastle. To combat a national problem, we are creating a community hub promoting inclusion & independence. Nextcares is dedicated to providing our participants and their families with highly personalised services that are tailored to each and every individual need that you or your loved one may have. This is our service promise – we are the ones who will adapt to you so that you get what you need out of your care.