Next Step Disability Service

24/12/2025

Merry Christmas from the Next Step Team 🎄🌴 Wishing everyone a safe, happy holiday and a wonderful New Year! 🎉

27/08/2025

📣JOB OPPORTUNITY ALERT📣

Experienced Support Coordinator wanted!

Email your resume to: [email protected]

19/08/2025

📣JOB OPPORTUNITY ALERT📣

Disability Support Workers wanted in the Mackay region and surrounding areas!

We welcome applicants from diverse backgrounds and encourage everyone who shares our passion for making a positive impact in the lives of people with disabilities to apply.

Email your resume to: [email protected]

21/07/2025

🌟 Northern Beaches Community Hub Stage 1A is now open! 🌟

Council is thrilled to welcome the community to the newly opened Stage 1A of the Northern Beaches Community Hub - a vibrant new space designed for fun, learning, and connection!

🐊 Explore the 29m crocodile-shaped amphitheatre with a colourful, multi-level performance space perfect for small events and educational activities.

The facility also includes...

🏀 Undercover multi-purpose court
🫗 Kitchenette and storeroom
🌿 Nature play zones
🥪 Picnic areas
🛝 Climbing nets, balance beams, swings, adventure paths and a slide

A fantastic family space for Northern Beaches residents to enjoy year-round. 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦

📍 Come explore, play and connect with your community!

🔗 Find out more: https://bit.ly/3TNkL3t

12/05/2025

✨ BREAKING NEWS - Dedicated Specialist Queensland Police Service Officer Embedded at Mackay Women's Services. ✨

This Domestic and Family Violence Prevention Month, Mackay Women’s Services is proud to officially launch a partnership with Queensland Police Service.

We now have a dedicated Domestic & Family Violence Specialist Police Officer embedded at MWS, providing enhanced support for high-risk victim-survivors across the region.

This collaboration offers a safer, more accessible way for people to connect with police - especially for those who may feel distressed or unsafe visiting a station.

Together, MWS and QPS are delivering trauma-informed, compassionate support, ensuring high-risk victim-survivors receive timely information, guidance, and advocacy from both qualified case managers and trained police.

If you or someone you know is impacted by DFV, please contact Mackay Women's Services via 4953 1788 or [email protected]

10/05/2025

🌸🌷 Happy Mother’s Day! 🌷🌸

Wishing all our incredible participants, dedicated staff, and everyone in our community a beautiful Mother’s Day! 💖

Whether you’re a mum, a step-mum, a mum-to-be, a fur mum, or someone who’s been like a mum - today we celebrate you! 🫶

16/04/2025

RSPCA Op Shop Mackay

16/01/2025

Please be careful all 😱🪼☀️🏝️🐚⛱️🌊

🪼 We’ve been advised by Surf Life Saving Queensland that Eimeo and Sarina Beach will be closed for the next two days due to the presence of box jellyfish.

🏊 It is stinger season and we recommend wearing a full-length stinger suit when swimming in tropical waters and packing a bottle of vinegar in the car when heading to the beach.

🚑 In the event of a jellyfish sting, call 000 and prepare for CPR, douse the area with vinegar for 30 seconds and do not rub the sting.

📱 Stay up-to-date on the latest information regarding patrols by visiting Surf Life Saving's website https://beachsafe.org.au/ or download the beachsafe app.