DLi is a proudly South Australian organisation established in 1984 to provide long-term community accommodation and lifestyle support for young adults with disabilities. Our services have grown over the years to support people with disability to explore and expand their abilities through a range of services, providing a multidisciplinary approach to supporting clients. DLi delivers these services with knowledge, experience, diligence and enthusiasm.
At DLi we are so much more than just another disability service organisation.
Our clients love life, and we believe we have an important contribution to make in helping our clients live as rich, rewarding, and enjoyable life as possible.
Whether it’s accommodation, in-home supports, specialist behaviour supports, learning new skills or getting out and about and meeting up with friends, with DLi, life is good!
Beyond the wide range of services we offer, it is the capabilities of DLi’s Quality and Safeguarding Team that truly sets us apart from our competitors. It comprises specialist nursing and psychological experts and is focused on driving and maintaining a culture of industry best practice and compliance within the organisation. It empowers our staff, managers, team leaders and support workers to deliver an industry-leading service. From conducting internal assurance activities, to incident investigation and implementing improvement in our support practices, there are very few providers in Australia that adopt a similar, dedicated approach to being the best disability service provider they can be.
Here is what our clients and stakeholders say about us…
My daughter has been coming to Disability Living for a few years now; we have been working with Megan. Megan has been a huge support, not only for my daughter but myself too. Since working with Megan, my daughter’s emotional regulation has improved significantly. My daughter loves attending her sessions with Megan.
Elise is great to be with and I feel like I’m with a friend. She loves working with animals and take photos, just like me. I have learnt lots of things from her and she’s there to support me at the zoon if I’m not sure of something. She’s also connected me with fantastic opportunities like the 2022 NDSP art exhibition where I displayed, and sold, some of my zoo photos. That was an amazing experience.
Our son Jack has been a client with DLi for seven years. During this time he has accessed STA services, both as part of children’s services and now as an adult. STA has been a wonderful opportunity for our family.
With no informal supports available to Jack, STA allows him to spend time with people his own age, work on this life skills and learn to trust people, other than us, to take care of him. Jack can be a tricky character and we have been impressed with the way staff at the various sites he has accessed over the years have gone out of their way to learn about Jack’s idiosyncrasies, behaviours, likes and dislikes in order to make his stay at STA successful.
We always find the support workers to be very professional in their conduct. It gives us great peace of mind to know Jack is in the safe hands of caring professionals when accessing STA with DLi.
