16/09/2026
QCS has been nominated for the Diversity Australia & New Zealand Diversity and Inclusion Award in the 2026 7NEWS Queensland Community Achievement Awards 🤞
We're a small, family-owned, CALD-led NDIS provider working across Queensland and Victoria. Most systems ask people to adapt to the service. For a lot of families that gap isn't only language. It's the shame that still sits around disability at home, and not knowing you're entitled to any of this, or not believing you are. So we work the other way around: a diverse workforce supporting people in their own languages, partnerships with the faith groups, schools, cultural organisations and community leaders families already trust, and supports shaped around the household rather than the form. Culturally responsive support that adapts to you, not the other way around.
Diversabilities came out of that. It's free and provider-neutral, with more than 100 providers listed, searchable by language, location and access needs, and expanding into more languages through AI translation. We list providers we compete with, because a family finding the right support matters more than a family finding us.
It sits under our Peer Support and Capacity Building program, funded by the NDIS, alongside our Community Conversations workshops in community languages, Diversations gatherings, and Building Cultures of Care, our podcast on disability, community and the way we care across cultures and faiths. All free, no plan or diagnosis needed.
Running through all of it, and through QCS itself, are our Community Connectors. Bilingual people from the same communities, who families will actually tell the truth to.
To the participants, families and carers who let us in, and to the team who show up for them every day, thank you. This nomination is yours.
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