The Neurodiverse confident services state purchasing contract has concluded.
You can still procure services with former contract suppliers through your organisation.
The suppliers were:
The VPSC gives no warranty on the quality of the services provided by these suppliers.
For support recruiting and supporting neurodivergent employees in the Victorian public sector, please visit the Neurodiversity employment toolkit.
Your diversity and inclusion or HR teams will arrange payment for these services.
Neurodivergent employees can access counselling or coaching. People managers can access training for themselves and their teams.
You can be on a fixed-term contract, secondment or a casual. All services can be online, on-site, ongoing or on-demand.
The services focus on Autism Spectrum Disorder (or ASD) and ADHD. In the future, we’ll add services for other neurodivergent identities.
When you use this service, your personal information is confidential.
You can get counselling on:
To use this, meet with your manager or diversity and inclusion or HR teams.
They may need to speak with someone else to approve it. But they won’t reveal who you are.
You can share this page with your manager if they don’t know about these services. Your manager can learn how they and your team can support you.
You can use these services to:
It’s good to use these services within 12 weeks of when an employee starts.
Speak with your diversity and inclusion team for a full list of services and prices.
The law says you must take steps to support employees with disability.
These services will help you support your neurodivergent employee with:
Your employee doesn’t have to share health information to get these services.
Their use of these services must be confidential. This includes when you approve funds.
Read more in the Federal Disability Discrimination Act 1992 and the Victorian Equal Opportunity Act 2010.
The term ‘neurodiversity’ describes the idea that in society:
Some people use the term ‘neurotypes’ to refer to the different types of brains that make up a neurodiverse society.
‘Neurodivergent’ refers to a person with a neurotype in the minority. This means their brain is different to that of most other people.
There is no official list of identities or conditions where a person can be referred to as neurodivergent.
For these services, we use the term neurodivergent to refer to the following:
People have different opinions on what they think should be included under the umbrella term ‘neurodivergent’.
People with one or more of these identities or conditions may call themselves a ‘neurodivergent person’. Others may not use the term neurodivergent and may refer to themselves with a different word, such as ‘dyslexic’ or ‘dyspraxic’.
Language in the neurodiversity space changes frequently. It’s always best to ask a neurodivergent person what language they prefer.
We want inclusive and safe public sector workplaces.
Neurodiversity confidence means you:
These services support Getting to work: Victorian public sector disability employment action plan 2018 to 2025.