Refer your clients to CoAct
Improve the lives of your clients through employment
CoAct assists individuals living with disability, illness and injury to access employment opportunities, overcome barriers, and obtain necessary support services.
Who is commonly referred to CoAct?
Referral partners, including GPs and allied health professionals, NDIS support staff, educators and parents, frequently refer the following individuals to our services:
- NDIS participants
- Disability Support Pension (DSP) recipients
- Early school leavers
- SLES participants
- People transitioning from Supported Employment to Open Employment
- People living with disability
- People living with illness, including anxiety and depression
- People living with injury
- People in employment but needing extra support
- Workforce Australia participants who require extra support.
Disability Employment Services (DES)
DES helps people living with disability, injury, illness or health condition find work and stay employed. This includes people living with anxiety or depression, neurodivergence including ADHD and autism, a physical or intellectual disability, learning difficulties, and visual or hearing impairment.
Workforce Australia (previously jobactive)
Workforce Australia is a government program that helps people receiving income support to find work and stay employed. If your client or family member is self-managing in Workforce Australia Online and would benefit from personalised support, you can refer them to CoAct Workforce Australia Services. Alternatively, they can request a transfer to CoAct Workforce Australia Services via the Digital Services Contact Centre.
Workforce Australia – Transition to Work
Workforce Australia – Transition to Work provides intensive employment assistance for eligible 15 to 24 year olds.
Refer your client to CoAct and we’ll help them to overcome employment barriers.
How we can help
Support to find a job
Our carefully tailored support is free and includes:
• help to look for suitable jobs
• career advice
• work-ready skills and training including short courses and work placements
• resumes and job application assistance
• help to prepare for job interviews
• financial assistance for transport or work uniforms
• advice and access to workplace modifications and assistive technology
• regular ongoing support in the workplace
Support to stay in work
• job-readiness for their first day
• on-the-job training as well as ongoing support when needed
• liaising with their employer when needed
• help with workplace modifications
• working with medical and support services to help keep them in work.
If you have a client currently experiencing difficulties fulfilling the essential requirements of their job, arising from the impact of their injury, disability or health condition, CoAct can help through the government funded Work Assist program.
A collaborative delivery model
• Disability Employment Services (DES)
• Workforce Australia
• Workforce Australia - Transition to Work
Why partner with CoAct
CoAct works with Referral Partners across the country to provide the right support services for Australians. Our team can help people overcome any challenges and through our network, we deliver specialist community and employment services working collaboratively with you to provide tailored support programs.
Who can refer to CoAct?
Who is eligible?
- living with a disability, mental health condition, treated illness or injury that makes it difficult to find and keep a job. This includes living with anxiety or depression, neurodivergence including ADHD and autism, a physical or intellectual disability, learning difficulties, visual or hearing impairment.
- an Australian citizen or hold a permanent resident, or on a Temporary Protection, Special Category or Safe Haven Visa.
- aged between 14 and 67.
- able to work at least 8 hours per week and no more than 30.
- are receiving an income support payment.
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Referring to CoAct is easy. Refer an individual to us (with their consent) or call 1800 226 228 and chat to us about the best approach to help their situation.
