A clinically led SIL home for one participant with dual diagnosis.
Belong is a new, NDIS-registered SIL provider in Brisbane's north, directed by a 30-year specialist mental health nurse. We hold the placements other providers can't — calmly, clinically, and for the long term.
- 1 : 1
- Support ratio
- MH RN, 30 yrs
- Clinical lead
- Registered
- NDIS status
What makes this placement different
1:1 SIL — apartment, fully furnished
A modern, self-contained apartment dedicated to one participant, with a separate overnight worker space for 24/7 availability and privacy.
Directed by a 30-year mental health RN
Steve Hallam leads every placement personally — acute inpatient, community forensic and ED assessment background. Not generic 'tailored support'.
Vacancy open — referrals now
NDIS registered. Assessment-led intake. We meet, plan, and transition at a pace that protects the placement from day one.
A real home in Banyo — not a facility
A modern, fully furnished apartment in a quiet, established Brisbane North suburb. Set up to feel safe, hold a routine, and protect the tenancy long-term.
An honest fit, so the placement actually lasts.
Most placements break down because no one was honest at the start about who the home suits. We are. It's how we protect the participant, the tenancy, and your case load.
- Adults with a dual diagnosis — co-occurring mental health condition and intellectual disability
- Participants with persistent psychosocial disability whose needs are episodic, not crisis-driven
- People who thrive in a quiet, structured, single-person environment with consistent staffing
- Participants ready to build daily living skills and community engagement with clinical oversight
- Referrals from Support Coordinators or hospital discharge teams seeking a stable, long-term placement
Not a fit if: the participant has a significant history of property damage, high-level externalising behaviours requiring restrictive interventions, or needs hospital-level acute nursing. As this is an apartment in a residential complex, those needs are better served elsewhere — and we'll say so at assessment.
Built for dual diagnosis, not retro-fitted to it.
Most SIL providers are generic. We were built around one specific gap: the participants with co-occurring mental health and intellectual disability who keep getting handed back.
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Expert clinical oversight
Direct leadership from a 30-year specialist mental health RN. Real clinical decision-making, not 'tailored support' as a marketing line.
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Proactive, skilled support
Staff trained to read the function of behaviour and respond early — so episodic shifts don't escalate into crises, ED presentations, or tenancy breakdown.
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True clinical partnership
Active collaboration with Support Coordinators, GPs, psychiatrists and allied health. We share the picture, we don't disappear when it's hard.
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Recovery & skill-building
Daily living skills, community engagement and meaningful goals — supported through the episodic nature of mental illness, not paused by it.
Steve Hallam — Director & Registered Nurse
Steve is a registered nurse with more than 30 years across acute inpatient, community forensic, mobile intensive treatment and ED assessment — in both the UK and Australia. He has spent his career with the participants the system finds hardest to place: dual diagnosis, persistent psychosocial disability, forensic backgrounds.
He started Belong because he watched too many of these placements fall over — not because participants couldn't be supported, but because no one had built a service around what they actually need. Belong is that service: a Brisbane-based, NDIS-registered SIL provider, directed personally by Steve.
Tell us about your participant.
A short message is enough — diagnosis, current setting, and what's not working. Steve responds personally, usually the same business day.