OUR VALUES
Customer Focused:
The participant is at the centre of everything we do
Professional:
Quality services delivered in a manner consistent with best practice
Pioneering:
We strive to be innovative in our thinking and delivery
TARDISS would not exist if it were not for thousands of hours work and goodwill contributed by volunteers over the last five years.
Participants, their families, our staff, and our board members make up the TARDISS community.
In 2010, before the establishment of the NDIA, a small group of passionate North Queenslanders came together to discuss how they could help people with a disability receive quality care. They were aware that participants and families were disappointed with being treated as ‘just a number’. Their aim was to ensure the care receivers were placed at the center of all decisions, and that they were treated with dignity and respect.
The group decided the only way to achieve this objective was to establish an organisation where they could set the objectives, philosophy and ethics. Hence the birth of Townsville And Regional Disability Individualised Support Service or what was affectionately referred to as “TARDISS”.
TARDISS was incorporated on 6 January 2011. Many hundreds of hours of volunteer work was put into setting up the framework, policies and procedures for TARDISS. It is through this invaluable support of volunteers in the management area that enabled the organisation to establish a good financial position.
TARDISS could not exist without the enormous contribution volunteers have, and continue to make, towards bettering the lives of people with a disability. Barry Moyle and Esma Wickham in particular as volunteers spent many years building TARDISS into a sustainable organisation ready for its next phase of existence.
As TARDISS grows, we continue to build our range of services and assets for our participants.
