Explore resources and opportunities
Explore our peer-led resources
AQA is about supporting people to connect, contribute, participate, and build community. We offer resources for tackling issues of life with a complex neuromuscular disability.
Explore our individualised supports
AQA Qualcare is a statewide service providing 24-hour personal care and other support to people in their homes and local communities.
AQA is a quality accredited and registered service provider with NDIS, TAC, and WorkCover.
Our aim is to achieve service excellence by providing people with reliable, individualised support. Services are delivered in partnership with our clients in order to support people to live independent, rewarding lives.
Explore volunteering opportunities
At AQA, we have many volunteers - with and without a disability - who support our work and community. Our peer-volunteers provide peer support, mentoring and coaching to others living with spinal cord injury and like conditions. Video, photography and content journalists help us to share our stories. We work with volunteer interns, IT and project-support volunteers, event volunteers, and more.
Get paid to care
Disability support work is a challenging and rewarding career pathway that brings together members of different communities to enrich people's lives.
Support workers come from all walks of life, and are people in good physical health who enjoy working with others and engaging with their local community.
Someone who chooses to become a support worker for AQA may have had previous experience working with people with disabilities, or may have an interest in supporting clients to achieve life goals.
Our history
Formed in January 1987 by a small group of people with spinal cord injuries who had met at a sheltered workplace, AQA Victoria Ltd rapidly built a highly respected and peer-led attendant care business, established an information hub, and pioneered a peer-support outreach service in collaboration with Austin Health.
Over the past decade we have expanded the scope of the supports we provide to clients across a broad spectrum of complex neuromuscular and other disorders. We have trained an extensive register of peer mentors and coaches, whose services are available informally and through the NDIS. We have taken our information service and bimonthly newsletter online through our Spire website. And we continue to sustain more than 400 support workers from diverse backgrounds with meaningful employment.
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