About Us

What we stand for

The Sunnyside Way

Sunnyside listens and connects with participants, their supporters, and kin to deliver consistent, quality, and heartfelt support. We know each person’s experience is unique and we take our time to truly understand each individual’s support needs, goals, and aspirations.

Sunnyside was founded upon lived and living experience and offers a genuine opportunity to co-design meaningful supports. Our team values working in partnership to help people to really understand and exercise their human rights.

Genuine, caring, and passionate

We respect and support your life choices without judgement and offer helpful assistance designed to grow independence and build capacity. Our hope is that you might need our support less. You will find in Sunnyside, a team of genuine, caring, and professional people that you will come to call your biggest supporters!

An organisation founded upon lived and living experience

We value the richness and wisdom that diversity, difference and lived and living experience brings to the world and we actively find ways to magnify the voice of lived and living experience. Sunnyside actively employs people who have a personal connection with mental illness and/or disability. Having an empathetic team who truly understand is just one of our differences.

Years Operating

Support Staff

1 +

hours of support each year

Our Team

We are a passionate bunch of goodhearted people who believe in people before profit!

Because we’re not fixated on money, we spend our time ensuring we are offering quality support that meets the needs of those who have chosen to place their trust in us.

Collectively, our leaders have over 70 years of direct support and operational leadership experience spanning mental health, disability, youth, homelessness, addiction and family and domestic violence services.

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Jo & Kristy

Leaders

Danni & Alyssa

Leaders

What the people we support say about us

My name is Dana. I am a mum and have 3 beautiful children living with disabilities. I tried so many times to get support, but no one assisted us. Then when I met Sunnyside and my life changed. Sunnyside Australia offers consistent support and helps me and my kids every day in a million ways.

Dana NDIS Participant

Create Meaningful Outcomes

Our aspiration is to be known for our unwavering passion and commitment to excellence and for the genuine co-design of supports that spark happiness and create meaningful outcomes. It is important to us that participants, the community, and the families of those we support trust us wholeheartedly, especially when planning for their loved one’s long-term future.

Gold Coast Clubhouse

Oh, and we also invest our profits into a member-led mental health service on the Gold Coast that creates opportunities for connection, participation, belonging and fun!