::: Quality Lifestyle Alliance ::: www.qla.org.au :::

ABOUT QLA:

Established in 1992, Quality Lifestyle Alliance is an incorporated, community based, support organisation for people with a disability. It is a service run for people with a disability by people with a disability.

HOW DO WE OPERATE:

The service is managed by an Executive Committee that is elected annually. The day to day operations are carried out by paid staff including a Manager, Coordinators who act as Case Managers and an Administrative Assistant.

OUR MISSION STATEMENT:

“Quality Lifestyle Alliance Incorporated aims to provide a lifestyle support service managed by people with a disability for people with a disability. The Organisation aims to empower and enable people to the greatest extent possible, through securing flexible and responsible networks appropriate to each individual’s life situation.”

OUR GLOBAL BELIEFS:

We believe in striving for a just society;
As members of our society, people with a disability have the right to the same opportunities, lifestyle options, level of security and dignity that are enjoyed by members of society who do not have a disability;
We believe that for a society to be “just” in this respect, there must be a commitment made to support individuals with a disability regardless of the financial cost; support to be “needs based”.

OUR ROLES & RESPONSABILITIES:

Quality Lifestyle Alliance Inc. will make every reasonable effort to make the Service User aware of the standard of service that they can expect and that services will be provided in a safe manner which respects their dignity and independence and is responsive to their social, cultural and physical needs.

Access to the service will be decided on the basis of need and the capacity of the service to meet that need.

Quality Lifestyle Alliance Inc. will take into account the Service Users views in planning and evaluation of the service.

OUR OBJECTIVES:

The objective of Quality Lifestyle Alliance Inc is to provide a variety of support services for people with disabilities, which are to be flexible yet secure, and are to assure an independent choice of lifestyle for the Service User, and in particular, but without limiting the generality of the above, encompass the following:-

To provide a self-run system to allow people with a disability to live a lifestyle of their choice;
To provide individual choice of personal care for people with a disability;
To provide opportunities for people with a disability to live their lives away from institutionalised systems;
To maximise the potential of people with a disability to function as independently as possible in personal, domestic, vocational, cultural and recreational environments;
To provide a model to the general community of an organisation successfully run by and for people with a disability;
To do any other things that are necessary or incidental to achieving any of the matters listed above.