SOLAS  offers a range of community sector support services based on the needs and choice of each individual, including:

Functional Support Activities

Prompts for personal hygiene, money management, home maintenance, shopping, cooking and personal administration.

Community Access and Integration Activities

Assistance with:  Recreation, employment, education, health, community resources etc ,the development of independent living and social skills and the facilitation of natural support networks

SOLAS PROGRAMS

  • Block Funded Service read more

    • Provide long term support services to an identified number of people (17 minimum).

  • SOLAS Short Term Community Support Service (STCSS) read more

    • STCSS provides support to meet the short term needs of people with a diagnosed psychiatric disability. The service is available for periods of 12 weeks.  Short term, intensive support will be provided collaboratively by SOLAS, Mental Health Services and other Key Stakeholders and will provide community based support service that is based on the individual needs of people and which promotes community inclusion and integration.

  • SOLAS Recovery Program read more

    • Provide independent living skills and social support services for people with moderate to severe mental illness.  The service level and duration of support is based on individual need.

  • SOLAS Day Services Program read more

    • Provides support to access meaningful activities that build community participation and inclusion together with skills development.  For people to be eligible for this program, a "Registration of Need" with DSQ is required. The SOLAS Day Service Vocational Skills Program is a sub-program of the SOLAS Day Service and is operating in collaboration with Advance Employment to support people to gain and maintain employment.

  • Post School Support Packages read more

    • The Program aims to enable young people to experience a range of options and opportunities as they work toward their transition to adulthood. Some young people may wish to explore short-term vocational goals such as work experience opportunities and pre-vocational courses.

  • Adult Lifestyle Support Packages (ALSP) read more

    • Services provided to those individuals who have access to an Adult Lifestyle Support Package through Disability Services Queensland.

  • Project 300 read more

    • Assists people with a psychiatric disability to live independently in the community.  P300 is an institutional reform program of the Queensland Government.

  • SOLAS Mental Health Housing and Support Program (HASP) read more

    • The Mental Health Housing and Support Program (HASP) is a collaborative interagency project involving DSQ Funded Non-Government Service Providers (FNGSP), Queensland Health and the Department of Housing.

      The program provides for comprehensive supports including clinical support, non-clinical support and social housing to assist people with a psychiatric disability to move from Queensland Health Extended Treatment or Acute Mental Health facilities and to sustain community living.  SOLAS operates a block specified service through the HASP program.

  • SOLAS Community Inclusion Program (SCIP) read more

    • Provides recovery focussed psychosocial supports for people with moderate to severe mental illness who are being released from the Townsville Correctional Centre.  The program assists the re-connection with social supports such as:  housing, legal, financial, medical, social networks for up to a 6 month period. Referrals from the Prison Mental Health Service.

  • SOLAS Personal Helpers and Mentors Program (PHaMS)- Charters Towers and Palm Island read more

    • Provides a strengths-based, recovery approach to supporting people aged 16 years and over who have a severe mental illness by supporting them to access appropriate supports and resources and to increase social connections in the community.  The PHaMS program is delivered in the Charters Towers Regional area, through sub-contracting arrangements with service providers in Charters Towers, Hughenden and Palm Island.   "An Australian Government Initiative"

  • SOLAS Mental Health Respite Development Program read more

    • This program provides access to innovative respite and carer and family support options for carers of people with severe mental illness.  The program builds community capacity within the regional areas of Charters Towers, Ingham and the Burdekin district to respond to the varying needs of people in the target group.

  • Contract Work read more

    • Support services may be provided to people who have access to a funding source, ie. Brokerage Services, Respite Services, Emergency Response support, Government Departments, Public Trustee Office, etc.

Other Relevant information:

SOLAS is a community sector specialist mental health service that is an incorporated body under the Associations Incorporations Act 1981. The organization is managed by a voluntary Board of Management that meets on a monthly basis, in accordance with the requirements of the Act.

The SOLAS programs deliver recovery oriented services from a strengths based perspective through the identification of people's needs, the development of Individual Service Support Plans (ISSP) and the regular review of supports.  These inclusive processes involve all stakeholders engaged in supporting the person to live a quality life in the community.

The organisation is also involved in community education which is aimed at raising awareness about mental illness and psychiatric disability and to work towards reducing the stigma and discrimination often experienced by people who have mental health conditions. 

SOLAS engages in community development processes such as the identification of service gaps and the development of innovative service delivery and community responses to meet this need.  SOLAS is a member of the NORTH QUEENSLAND MENTAL HEALTH CONSORTIUM which consists of the three community sector specialist mental health service delivery organisations within the Townsville region:-  SOLAS, Advance Employment and the Mental Illness Fellowship of North Queensland.  The NQ Mental Health Consortium works collaboratively to seek collective opportunities to partner and share resources in the delivery of high quality services for people in the North Queensland region.

SOLAS is funded by the Queensland Government through Department of Communities - Disability Services and Community Mental Health Branch; and the Australian Government through the Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs. The organisation has been certified and accredited as meeting the standards of the Queensland Disability Service Standards. This system is aimed at strengthening safeguards for people with a disability by maintaining effective policies and practices that meet service standard indicators for each or the 10 disability service standards.