Gladstone woman Alex Dickinson recently opened her new business Alex’s Support Services

Gladstone’s woman’s mission to help the community: “What we are seeing is a lot is people aren’t aware of what is available out in the community.”

A new disability support service has opened in Gladstone, with the owner committed to making a difference in people’s lives.

Alex Dickinson said the inspiration behind opening ‘Alex’s Support Services’ was her affiliation with a mental health residential facility.

“I work there and we have a lot of people under the National Disability Insurance Scheme,” she said.

Ms Dickinson said it had taken a while for her to get the business up and running, but she was ready to apply her experience and help the disabled community in Gladstone however she could.

“I have had a lot of experience working with children with autism, down syndrome and other disabilities at the special needs school in Rosella,” she said.

“I was also doing some work when I lived down in Brisbane with a boy with autism and I was working with an applied behavioural analysis business.”

Ms Dickinson said her service catered for people with intellectual and physical disabilities and even psychosocial and mental health illnesses.

“They can be under the NDIS but also under the private sector, I can even work with people who aren’t eligible for the NDIS, say they aren’t an Australian citizen,” she said.

Ms Dickinson said she wanted people in the Gladstone region to reach out and get in touch.

“Even if it is just to ask a question of what is available to them,” she said.

“Because what we are seeing a lot is people aren’t aware of what is available out in the community.

“There is actually a lot more than what we realise, more services, more support workers, like the Gladstone Community Linking Agency or people like me who are doing it privately.

“I would love to help people with the NDIS process as well because it is huge, daunting and some people don’t go through with it because they think it is just too much for them.”

The best way to contact Alex’s Support Services is via her Facebook page or via email at [e-mail]