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  • Aboriginal Peoples
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    • Aboriginal Recruitment
    • Metropolitan Aboriginal Youth and Family Services
    • ASK Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander services
    • Parenting SA Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Families resources
    • Community Connections
    • Reconciliation Action Plan
  • Ageing well
    • Retirement villages
      • Operator information sessions - Retirement village law reforms
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    • Support for adult safety and wellbeing
      • Get help if you are concerned about abuse or mistreatment
      • Preventing abuse or mistreatment
        • What is abuse?
        • Supporting someone you think is being abused or mistreated
        • Care and respect in different cultures
        • Protect your finances and property
        • Plan for your future health and wellbeing
        • Support for carers of adults
      • About the Adult Safeguarding Unit
      • Your rights as an older South Australian
      • Complaints and feedback to the Adult Safeguarding Unit
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      • Guides for service providers
        • Responding to abuse of adults
        • Responding to physical abuse
        • Responding to carer neglect
        • Responding to financial abuse
        • Responding to psychological abuse
        • Responding to sexual abuse
        • Understanding power of attorney
        • Contacts for adult safeguarding assistance
    • Seniors Card
    • Ageing well community and research grants
    • Promoting ageing well
      • Plan Ahead
      • Tackling Ageism
        • Age Positive Communication Toolkit
        • Bystander Action for Ageing Well
        • Tackling ageism campaign resources
      • Stop Elder Abuse
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      • South Australia's Week of Ageing Well
    • Research and action for ageing well
      • South Australia's Plan for Ageing Well
      • Safeguarding the rights of older South Australians
      • Age-Friendly SA
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      • Strategic research agenda for ageing well
  • Carers
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    • SA Carers Recognition Act 2005
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  • Homelessness
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    • Support for the homelessness sector
      • Homeless2Home System Support
    • Homelessness data and directions in South Australia
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      • Our approach to homelessness
      • Homelessness Outcomes Framework
    • Extreme weather response
  • Interpreting and Translating Centre
  • LGBTIQA+
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      • DHS Data Collection and Gender Guide
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    • The 50th anniversary of the decriminalisation of homosexuality in South Australia
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      • Safe environments training
        • Approved public training providers
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      • Resources for creating a child safe policy
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    • Australian Service Excellence Standards (ASES)
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        • How standards are developed
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    • SA Restrictive Practices Authorisation scheme
    • Food security
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  • Domestic, family and sexual violence prevention
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    • Royal Commission into Domestic, Family and Sexual Violence
    • What we are doing to help
      • Take the Pledge to act against domestic, family and sexual violence
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  • Youth Justice
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• About us
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      • Diversity and Inclusion
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          • Disability Access and Inclusion Plan 2020 to 2024
            • 2023 Addition
              • Why was the plan revised?
              • Outcome areas
                • Employment and Financial Security
                • Inclusive Homes and Communities
                • Safety, Rights and Justice
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            • Disability Access and Inclusion Plan 2020 to 2024 | Original Plan
              • Background
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                • Inclusive Communities for All
                  • Involvement in the Community
                  • Improving Community Understanding and Awareness
                  • Promoting the Rights of People Living With Disability
                • Leadership and Collaboration
                  • Participation in Decision-Making
                  • Leadership and Raising Profile
                  • Engagement and Consultation
                • Accessible Communities
                  • Universal Design Across South Australia
                  • Accessible and Available Information
                  • Access to Services
                • Learning and Employment
                  • Better supports within educational and training settings
                  • Skill development through volunteering and support in navigating the pathway between learning and earning
                  • Improved access to employment opportunities and better support within workplaces
              • Supporting Information
              • Glossary
      • Reconciliation
        • Statement of commitment
        • Reconciliation Action Plan 2022 to 2024
  • Our Department
    • Strategic Plan
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      • Annual Report 2024–2025
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        • Overview: about the agency
        • The agency's performance
        • Financial performance
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      • Annual Report 2023–2024
        • Submission
        • From the Chief Executive
        • Overview: about the agency
        • The agency's performance
        • Financial performance
        • Risk management
        • Reporting required under any other act or regulation
        • Public complaints
    • Reconciliation
      • Reconciliation Statement of Commitment
      • Reconciliation Action Plan
      • Aboriginal Workforce Strategy 2026–2031
      • Reconciliation Walk
    • Inclusion, engagement and safeguarding
      • DHS Diversity and Inclusion
        • DHS Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Strategy
        • DHS Aboriginal Workforce Strategy
        • DHS Disability Access and Inclusion Plan (DAIP)
          • DHS Disability Access and Inclusion Plan 2020–2024
          • DHS Revised DAIP 2023
        • DHS Diversity and Inclusion Style Guide
      • Inclusive SA
      • Children and Young People
        • Safeguarding Children and Young People Policy
        • Working with Children and Young People Code of Conduct
      • Closing the Gap
      • SA Restrictive Practices Authorisation scheme
      • Disability Engagement Group
      • Highgate Park
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      • South Australian Response to the Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation of People with Disability
      • DHS Suicide Prevention Action Plan
        • DHS Suicide Prevention Action Plan 2025–2028
    • Legislative Responsibility
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