Welcome to Noah's Ark inclusion Support Agency

NOAHS ARK RESOURCE CENTRE is contracted by the Australian Government to deliver Inclusion Support Agency services in the following two regions, BRISBANE NORTH and WIDE BAY BURNETT.

Inclusion Support Agencies are part of the Inclusion and Professional Support Program (IPSP), a new integrated approach to meeting the professional and inclusion support needs of child care services.

Each Inclusion Support Agency manages a network of skilled Inclusion Support Facilitators who work at a local level with child care services-

ISAs are responsible for the provision of support to child care services that include practical advice and access to a range of supports designed to strengthen the service’s ability to create a quality care environment inclusive of all children. These supports include, but are not limited to, providing onsite assistance with developing SSPs, facilitating access to Specialist Equipment, General Resources Library, professional support, funding through FSF or ISS, and Bicultural Support.

Promote the awareness of and responsiveness to the following priority groups:

• children with a disability, including children with high support needs
• children from culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) backgrounds
• children with a refugee or humanitarian intervention background who have been subjected to torture and trauma, either in their country of origin or during their refugee experience.
• Indigenous children.

Services that are eligible to access inclusion support are:

• Australian Government approved Child Care Services, including both private and community centre based long day care, outside school hours care including vacation care, family day care, occasional care, and in-home care.

Australian Government funded non-mainstream child care services (non-Child Care Benefit) such as flexible/multifunctional services, Multifunctional Aboriginal Children's Services (MACS), non-mainstream outside school hours care, non-formula funded occasional care (100 per cent Australian Government funded) and mobile child care services.

BRISBANE NORTH Inclusion Support Agency This agency provides services to eligible child care providers in the following regions. Phone: (07) 3482 4884 Fax: (07) 3482 4885 Email: isa5@noahsark.net.au Location & Mail Address: 183 Old Gympie Road KALLANGUR QLD 4503

WIDE BAY BURNETT Inclusion Support Agency This agency provides services to eligible child care providers in the following regions: Phone: (07) 4121 7100 Fax: (07) 4122 3147 Email: isa8@noahsark.net.au Location: 23 Sussex Street Maryborough Qld 4650 Mail Address: P.O. Box 947 MARYBOROUGH QLD 4650