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Flood Recovery Support

The Lockyer Valley region has faced the full extremes of Mother Nature in recent years - from drought, to fire, to floods.

Flooding - December 2023 and January 2024

Rural Aid is offering financial assistance and free counselling to farmers affected by the November 2023 hailstorm or the December 2023/January 2024 storms or floods that impacted the Lockyer Valley.

Primary producers will need to be registered (if not already), by filling out a short online form at https://faa.ruralaid.org.au/.

To find out more, email disasterassistance@ruralaid.org.au.

To seek assistance with jobs on your farm, visit Rural Aid’s job platform www.farmarmy.com.au.

Counselling Service

Rural Aid’s qualified counsellors are based across Australia. Rural Aid can connect with you with via telephone or in person. Counsellors regularly travel to properties for ‘farm gate’ sessions.

The benefits of counselling can include improved communication between you and your family, increased confidence, stronger boundaries, trauma and grief support, and finding solutions to personal challenges as a team.

Counselling is:

  • delivered by a trained professional
  • confidential and non-judgemental
  • about the topics you want to explore
  • tailored to your individual needs
  • free of charge

Farmers, their family members, and their employees can access this free service. Retired and hobby farmers are also eligible.

Phone 1300 175 594 or visit www.ruralaid.org.au/mental-health-wellbeing.

Council Assistance

Grants and other financial assistance

Community Recovery Grants

Current grants/financial help available for disasters including flood, fire, drought:

  • Queensland Government Disaster Recovery Support
  • Department of Treaty, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Partnerships, Communities and the Arts
  • Recover Connect brings together services and supports from charities, organisations, and government directly to you. This assistance helps people prepare for and recover from disasters and major natural events including bushfire, COVID, cyclone, drought, and flood information and support. The website frequently adds new services and updates existing ones.
  • View the current list of disaster events open for applications. You may be eligible to apply for assistance for more than one of these events if:
    • You received a grant under one of the eligible disasters listed and repair works were completed, and:
    • Your home was then damaged by another of the eligible disasters and now needs further work to make it safe, secure and habitable.

RACQ Foundation Community Grants Program

The RACQ Foundation helps Queensland community groups, charities, organisations and clubs impacted by natural disasters. This includes both recovery grants and resilience-based project grants which may relate to physical, nature-based and social situation.

For more information, contact RACQ Foundation at racqfoundation@racq.com.au, call 07 3872 8603 or visit their website.

Community Support Services

The Queensland Government and Lockyer Valley Regional Council continues to work with a wide range of organisations to help minimise the impact of rainfall and flooding events in the Lockyer Valley.

If you or someone you know needs assistance or support, please use this brochure for information and contact details for key community services available in your local area. Some of the active, localised services are noted below.

Community services

Community Recovery Hotline

The State Government's Department of Communities, Housing and Digital Economy can guide you towards relevant support during your time of recovery from a natural disaster:

Financial, Gambling and Business Counselling support

Legal support

February and May 2022 Flood Recovery Plan - page one

Flooding - February and May 2022

A Local Recovery Plan is developed to ensure the people, property and environment impacted by a disaster continue to recover - be it in the immediate aftermath or over the long-term. The Plan documents the supports, reconstruction and restoration needed, the actions to be taken, and the measures of success for delivering on the Plan for the communities affected.

In response to the February 2022 flooding event, the Lockyer Valley Local Recovery Group developed a Plan. This was updated to incorporate the impact and community need following the second intense rainfall event in May 2022: 'February & May 2022 Flood Recovery Plan' (PDF).

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