Skip to content
Skip to main navigation
Skip to footer
FaHCSIA Internet
<a href="/Search" target="_parent">Advanced Search</a>
About FaHCSIA
Overview
Ministers and Portfolios
Portfolio Bodies
2011-14 FaHCSIA Strategic Framework
Media Releases
News & Events
Programs & Services
Benefits & Payments
Policies & Legislation
Publications & Articles
Doing Business with FaHCSIA
Related Agencies & Sites
Freedom of Information
Subject Areas
Carers
Child Support
Communities
Families & Children
Gambling & Drugs
Housing & Homelessness
Indigenous Australians
Mental Health
People with Disability
Seniors
Volunteers
Women
International Agreements
FaHCSIA Ministers
Overview
Grants & Funding
Current Funding
FaHCSIA Grants
General Information on Funding
Careers & Employment
Careers at FaHCSIA
Current Vacancies
What we Offer
Tips for Applicants
Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Recruitment
Working at FaHCSIA with Disability
FaHCSIA Graduate Program
Contact FaHCSIA
Contact the Department
Feedback – Compliments, Complaints and Enquiries
Reporting Suspected Fraud
National Relay Service
Freedom of Information
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Executive Summary
1 Introduction
2 Rural and remote disability employment assistance
3 Funding principles to enable innovation in service provision in rural and remote locations
4 Strategies to improve employment assistance for job seekers with disabilities
5 Innovative approaches to improving the cost effectiveness and coverage of employment assistance in Rural and remote locations
Models
Recommendations relating to models
Selected references
Appendices
FaHCSIA Internet
>
Subject Areas
>
People with Disability
>
Publications & Articles
>
Policy & Research
>
Rural and Remote Disability Employment Study
People with Disability
Listen to this page
Rural and Remote Disability Employment Assistance Study
February 2001
The study was conducted in 2001 and identified necessary funding principles to enable innovation in disability employment assistance service provision in rural and remote locations.
Alternative Formats
Rural and Remote Disability Employment report PDF [413kB]
Rural and Remote Disability Employment report RTF [1.9MB]
Table of contents
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Executive Summary
1 Introduction
Aim of the study
2 Rural and remote disability employment assistance
2.1 Describing rural and remote disability employment assistance
2.2 Unmet demand in rural and remote locations
2.3 Costs in rural and remote communities
2.4 Labour market conditions in rural and remote areas
2.5 Business services in rural and remote communities
2.6 Conclusions
3 Funding principles to enable innovation in service provision in rural and remote locations
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Funding should recognise the higher costs of operating in rural and remote locations (Principle 1)
3.3 Funding should be appropriate to the circumstances of the rural and remote location (Principle 2)
3.4 Funding should promote viable efficient and innovative services (Principle 3)
3.5 Conclusions
4 Strategies to improve employment assistance for job seekers with disabilities
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Case management and brokerage
4.3 Collaborative relationships
4.4 Service delivery structures
4.5 Community development opportunities in rural and remote locations
4.6 Transport as a strategy to improve access
4.7 Technology opportunities in rural and remote locations
4.8 Strategies to provide services to Indigenous people with disabilities
5 Innovative approaches to improving the cost effectiveness and coverage of employment assistance in rural and remote locations
5.1 Key features of innovative approaches
5.2 Framework for improved innovation
5.3 Aims of the model
5.4 Description of the model
5.5 Benefits of the model
5.6 Geographical focus and aspects of service delivery
5.7 Directions for disability employment services
5.8 Roles and responsibilities
5.9 Quality assurance
5.10 Funding options
5.11 Next steps
Models
Collaborative arrangements between two or more providers
Open and supported employment collaboration
Indigenous model
Community development model
Disability employment service and day options programs - collaboration
Case management and brokerage
Joint projects with local government - outreach
Business coalition initiative
Employer as employment assistance provider
Family as employment assistance provider
Recommendations relating to models
Selected references
Appendices
Methodology
Organisations contributing to the study
Popular Topics
Volunteer Grants 2011
Helping Children with Autism
Strengthening immunisation for young children
Health Care Card
Closing the Gap
Welfare Payments Reform
Better Start for Children with Disability
Clean Energy Future – Assistance for households and organisations
National Disability Strategy
Problem Gambling
Related Topics
Mental Health
Carers
Seniors
Related Sites
International Day of People with Disability
MyTime, supporting parents of children with disabilities
Australian Disability Enterprises
Centrelink’s Pulse
Medicare Benefits Schedule Online
[
top
]
Skip to left navigation
Skip to main navigation
Skip to page top
Sign In