U-Change Consulting

U-Change Consulting U-Change Consulting is an NDIS registered provider committed to supporting people to thrive.

We focus on creating meaningful behavioural change, building functional skills, and enhancing quality of life so every individual can reach their full potential.

Today, on National Sorry Day, we pause to acknowledge the strength, resilience, and enduring cultures of Aboriginal and ...
26/05/2026

Today, on National Sorry Day, we pause to acknowledge the strength, resilience, and enduring cultures of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.

We remember the Stolen Generations, the children, families, and communities impacted by past government policies, and the ongoing effects of intergenerational trauma that continue to be felt today.

At U-Change Consulting, we are deeply committed to ongoing reflection, learning, and the important work of decolonising practice within the disability, education, behaviour support, and community sectors. We recognise the importance of listening to and being guided by First Nations voices, knowledge, culture, and lived experience.

We are deeply privileged and appreciative to have Lorraine Blanco (Namok), our First Nations Principal Consultant and Behaviour Support Practitioner, as part of our team. Lorraine’s leadership, cultural knowledge, advocacy, and guidance continue to shape and strengthen our commitment to culturally safe, trauma-informed, and neurodivergent-affirming practice.

As a team, we remain committed to walking alongside First Nations peoples with humility, respect, accountability, and genuine partnership.

Today is a day to reflect, to listen, and to continue the journey toward reconciliation together.

🖤💛❤️💚💙🤍

Always was, always will be.

At U-Change Consulting, we believe every person deserves support that is neurodivergent-affirming, trauma-informed, cult...
24/05/2026

At U-Change Consulting, we believe every person deserves support that is neurodivergent-affirming, trauma-informed, culturally responsive, and grounded in authentic human connection🫶🏽

We are currently welcoming new referrals across our services, supporting children, young people, adults, families, schools, and communities throughout their journey.

NOW ACCEPTING REFERRALS FOR:

🧠 Positive Behaviour Support:

🫶🏽Neurodivergent-affirming PBS
🫶🏽Complex behaviours and emotional regulation support
🫶🏽 Functional behaviour assessments and positive behaviour story plans
🫶🏽Trauma-informed assessment and intervention
🫶🏽Family, school and stakeholder collaboration
🫶🏽Capacity building and sustainable strategies
🫶🏽Early intervention through to adulthood
🫶🏽Individualised training for parents, carers and implementing providers

💚 Support Coordination (Levels 1–3):

🫶🏽Support Connection
🫶🏽Coordination of Supports
🫶🏽Specialised Support Coordination
🫶🏽Psychosocial and complex support needs
🫶🏽Crisis and risk support
🫶🏽Collaborative and person-centred planning

💚 Support Work:

🫶🏽Relationship-based support
🫶🏽Community access and skill development
🫶🏽Emotional regulation and co-regulation support
🫶🏽Capacity building and independence
🫶🏽Implementation of PBSPs
🫶🏽Flexible supports co-designed to the individual

💚 Small Group Programs:

🫶🏽Social connection and belonging
🫶🏽Emotional regulation and wellbeing
🫶🏽Executive functioning
🫶🏽Sibling sessions to reduce behaviours and build connection
🫶🏽Identity, confidence and self-advocacy
🫶🏽Neuroaffirming group experiences to build identity
🫶🏽Creative, cultural and community-based programs

At U-Change Consulting, we walk alongside people, not ahead of them. We honour lived experience, individual strengths, culture, identity, and the right for every person to feel safe, heard, respected and included.

📍 Delivering to individuals, families and organisations across Queensland and beyond 💡

🌐 https://u-changeconsulting.com.au
📧 admin@u-changeconsulting.com.au
📞 0477 987 035

Referrals, partnerships and community collaborations welcome🤍

Different, not less. Supported, not sidelined. Included, always.

17/05/2026

🌋 LOOK UNDERNEATH THE BEHAVIOUR 🌋

At U-Change Consulting, we believe behaviour is communication.

What we see on the surface is often only a small part of what a person is experiencing underneath.

Dysregulation, sensory overwhelm, communication frustration, unmet needs, anxiety, trauma, and developing coping skills can all impact behaviour.

Our Positive Behaviour Support team works alongside participants, families, schools, support workers, and care teams to build understanding, strengthen supports, and create meaningful, person-centred strategies that improve quality of life.

We support children, adolescents, and adults with complex disabilities such as:
🫶🏽Autism Spectrum Disorder
🫶🏽ADHD
🫶🏽Co-occurring genetic/medical conditions
🫶🏽Psychosocial disability
🫶🏽Global developmental delay
🫶🏽Complex trauma backgrounds
🫶🏽Anxiety and emotional regulation challenges
🫶🏽PDA profiles and school refusal
🫶🏽Complex communication needs
🫶🏽FASD
🫶🏽Dual diagnoses and co-occurring conditions
🫶🏽Complex paediatric presentations
🫶🏽Epilepsy and neurological conditions

At U-Change Consulting, our PBS approach is:
✔ Neuroaffirming
✔️ Trauma-informed
✔️ Culturally responsive
✔ Compassionate
✔ Evidence-informed
✔ Collaborative
✔ Focused on reducing stress and improving quality of life outcomes for everyone involved

We are currently welcoming referrals for Positive Behaviour Support services as our team is growing. We currently have practitioners in the Gladstone and Brisbane region.

📞 0477 987 035
📧 admin@u-changeconsulting.com.au

U-Change Consulting
Positive change, together 🫶🏽


📢 NDIS Budget Update – You Don’t Have to Navigate This Alone!At U-Change Consulting, we know the recent NDIS Budget anno...
15/05/2026

📢 NDIS Budget Update – You Don’t Have to Navigate This Alone!

At U-Change Consulting, we know the recent NDIS Budget announcements have caused worry and uncertainty for many participants and families. If you’re feeling unsure about what this means for you, our team is here, informed, and ready to support you.

At U‑Change Consulting, our values are clear:
🫶🏽 People first
🫶🏽 Stability and continuity of supports
🫶🏽 Clear information, not confusion
🫶🏽 Advocacy that leads to action

Our experienced Support Coordinators, Kathleen Manning and Fiona Bailey, are here to help.

The U‑Change Consulting Team is across the new timelines, understands the shifts that are required, and will step you through what’s changing, what’s staying the same, and what actions, if any, are needed right now.

We are proactively:
🫶🏽 Supporting continuity of supports
🫶🏽 Helping participants adjust plans where required
🫶🏽 Advocating to protect choice and control
🫶🏽 Providing clear, practical guidance you can trust

If you’re worried or have any questions, feel free to come into the U‑Change Consulting Hub at 5/190 Goondoon Street, Gladstone Central.

Let’s have a conversation where you can ask the questions. Sit with our team who knows the system and genuinely cares about your outcomes.

You don’t need to figure this out on your own.
📍 Visit our hub
📞 Call or message our team
🤝 Let’s work through this together

Together, we stay focused on what matters most: people, stability and living a good quality life.

U‑Change Consulting 💚Experienced support, real advocacy, and informed consistent guidance.

At U-Change Consulting, we believe Positive Behaviour Support is built through connection, trust, and meaningful experie...
13/05/2026

At U-Change Consulting, we believe Positive Behaviour Support is built through connection, trust, and meaningful experiences 🫶🏽

Monday was all about community participation, confidence building, and co-designing proactive strategies with Cooper, who has just turned 16 🎉

Through a strengths-based and neuroaffirming approach, Cooper spent time at the golf course developing:

⛳ Functional communication skills
⛳ Emotional regulation strategies
⛳ Community access confidence
⛳ Social connection and engagement
⛳ Decision-making and independence

For young people like Cooper with complex communication, ADHD, Autism (ASD Level 3), and behaviour support needs, the best outcomes happen when support is individualised, collaborative, and built around what genuinely motivates them.

Golf became more than an activity, it became a space for relationship building, problem solving, movement regulation, confidence, and success in a real-world community setting.

A huge congratulations to Cooper on his perseverance and determination in recently gaining his driver’s licence and commencing driving lessons 🚗👏

This is such a significant milestone and reflects the incredible growth, resilience, and independence he continues to show. We are so proud of the effort and commitment he has put into achieving this goal.

We are incredibly proud of Cooper and the way he continues to engage with new strategies, communicate his needs, and build capacity in ways that are meaningful to him 🫶🏽

This is what Positive Behaviour Support should look like:

🫶🏽 Respectful
🫶🏽 Collaborative
🫶🏽 Innovative
🫶🏽 Capacity-building
🫶🏽 Community-focused
🫶🏽 Person-led

12/05/2026

📢 Support Coordination that sees the person, not just the plan!

All levels including 1-2 and Specialised Support Coordination.

At U-Change Consulting, we believe every person deserves support that is respectful, empowering, and co-designed to their individual goals, strengths, culture, communication style, and lived experience.

Our innovative approach to Support Coordination goes beyond simply connecting services. We work alongside people with disability, families, carers, and support networks to build capacity, reduce stress, strengthen independence, and create meaningful opportunities for everyday life.

We support people living with a wide range of disabilities and support needs, including:

🫶🏽 Autism and neurodivergence
🫶🏽 Intellectual disability
🫶🏽 Psychosocial disability and mental health challenges
🫶🏽 Physical disability and mobility support needs
🫶🏽 Complex co-occurring medical conditions, behaviours and high-risk situations
🫶🏽 Sensory and communication differences
🫶🏽 Children, adolescents, and adults navigating complex systems

At U-Change Consulting, we understand that navigating the NDIS and multiple systems can feel overwhelming. Our experienced team is committed to making the process easier by providing responsive, compassionate, and collaborative support that helps participants feel heard, understood, and empowered.

We pride ourselves on:

💚 Neuroaffirming and trauma-informed practice
💚 Strong advocacy and person-centred planning
💚 Collaborative support with families, schools, providers, and allied health teams
💚 Flexible and responsive communication
💚 Experience navigating complex and high-risk cases
💚 Building genuine relationships that create long-term positive outcomes

Whether someone is starting their NDIS journey, needing help coordinating supports, working toward greater independence, or requiring intensive collaboration across services, our team is here to help make change happen.

📍 Face-to-face services available across Central Queensland
💻 Telehealth available nationally
🧩 Accepting referrals for all levels of Support Coordination (1-3)

We welcome referrals from participants, families, carers, schools, hospitals, allied health professionals, Child Safety, community organisations, and providers seeking collaborative, compassionate, and innovative support coordination.

📞 Fiona Bailey – 0448 248 241
📞 Kathleen Manning – 0472 716 357
📧
admin@u-changeconsulting.com.au
📍 UCC Hub: 5/190 Goondoon St, Central Gladstone QLD 4680

📢 A significant moment for our region, our communities, and the future of inclusive education!!U-Change Consulting is in...
08/05/2026

📢 A significant moment for our region, our communities, and the future of inclusive education!!

U-Change Consulting is incredibly proud to share that our CEO and Neurodivergent Behavioural Specialist, Tammy Freeman, has been appointed to the National Advisory Board for the new “the Supporting the Learning of Autistic School Students” micro-credential initiative, led by the Australian Government Department of Education in collaboration with Adelaide University.

This appointment represents far more than professional recognition.

It reflects the growing impact that regional voices, lived experience perspectives, and neurodivergent-affirming advocacy are having at the highest levels of educational leadership and government reform across Australia.

U-Change Consulting consistently advocates alongside autistic young people, families, educators, and communities who have been calling for genuine inclusion, safer schooling environments, and education systems that better understand neurodivergent students.

To now have representation from our region contributing directly to a national advisory board helping shape educator learning across Australia is both powerful and deeply significant.

The development of this national micro-credential course will support teachers, school leaders, teacher aides, and future educators to strengthen their understanding and support of autistic students in classrooms across the country.

Importantly, this ensures that the voices and experiences of autistic students and families, including those from regional communities are helping inform the future direction of education practice and inclusion.

At U-Change Consulting, we remain committed to creating meaningful systemic change through advocacy, leadership, collaboration, and evidence-informed neurodivergent-affirming practice.

We are proud to see our region represented in conversations that are shaping national change 🫶🏽


Why are some people’s needs called “human”… and others called “special”?Short answer: ableism.At U-Change Consulting, we...
28/11/2025

Why are some people’s needs called “human”… and others called “special”?

Short answer: ableism.

At U-Change Consulting, we see this every day in systems, language, and assumptions that position disabled people’s needs as extra, unusual, or outside the norm. The truth is simple:

All needs are human needs.
Support, communication access, regulation, connection, flexibility, safety, and understanding aren’t “special”, they’re universal.

When we label disabled people’s needs as “special,” we unintentionally send the message that they’re burdensome or outside what society should expect. When we recognise them as human, we shift the conversation to rights, respect, and equitable support.

Our work in Specialist Behaviour Support and all areas of practice is grounded in the belief that:
✔️ Neurodivergent people don’t need to be “fixed.”
✔️ Their support needs aren’t optional extras.
✔️ Inclusive environments are a collective responsibility, not an individual demand.
✔️ Dignity, autonomy, and safety belong to everyone.

Let’s retire the language that separates us, and build systems that honour every person’s humanity.

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Calliope, QLD
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Monday 8am - 6pm
Tuesday 8am - 6pm
Wednesday 8am - 6pm
Thursday 8am - 6pm
Friday 8am - 6pm
Saturday 9am - 5pm

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