Our goal is for everyone in the community to feel included, safe and supported – with access to culturally safe services, close to home. And we want you to have the freedom to choose your own lives.
Cairns is a vibrant multicultural city that serves as the largest centre in Far North Queensland.
When patients return home from receiving specialist treatment in Brisbane they often transit through Cairns. In the same way, patients from remote and rural FNQ often find themselves travelling to Cairns to access greater medical services.
As an integral part of the story, Cairns has been included in FNQ Connect’s three pilot sites largely because of this.
Located on the western Cape York Peninsula, approximately 600 kilometres northwest of Cairns, is a remote Aboriginal shire known as Kowanyama. In the Yir Yoront language this means “place of many waters” and includes the Kokoberra, Yir Yoront and Kunjen clans.
FNQ Connect is building relationships with community members and local orgnisations, and supporting local agendas to strengthen local workforce and services across the region.
The Tablelands represents a geographically diverse region inland from Cairns, home to more than 45,000 people.
The main population centre is Atherton with smaller towns including Malanda, Herberton, Ravenshoe, Mt Garnet, Tinaroo and Yungaburra, among others. Mareeba is not included under the initial trial.
FNQ Connect is championing several Community inclusion initiatives focused on improving transport and mobility, to strengthen access and inclusion across the Tablelands.
We’re a community-led movement with a vision to improve disability, rehabilitation & lifestyle services right across Far North Queensland.
