Support Connection

For participant’s to have the confidence and capacity to lead their plan, with the ongoing need for connection based supports reduced as a participant builds their capacity including, but not limited to:

• Understand the plan: assist the participant to understand their plan, the role of the broader systems of support, and the purpose of funded supports.
• Connection to broader system of support: assist the participant by linking to the broader systems of supports.
• Establish Supports: assist the participant to identify and consider support options.
• Coach, Refine, Reflect: Assist the participant through challenges that come up. Helps participant prepare for review and report on achieved participant outcomes.

Support Coordination: Coordination of Supports

To assist strengthening a participant’s ability to design and the build their supports with an emphasis on linking the broader systems of support across a complex service delivery environment.

Providing Coordination of Supports is so that a participant’s capacity and ability to design, develop and implement their supports is sustained and includes, but is not limited to:

• Connection: assist the participant to develop knowledge, experience and connections with the community and broader systems of support.
• Support Design: works together with participant to understand plan funding and its purpose. Support Coordinator will understand the participant’s confidence and skills, and helps participant identify what they want from services. Will develop and design support solutions to meet participant outcomes.
• Establish Supports: assist the participant to identify and consider support options, and link the participant to the broader systems of supports.
• Where practical creates a supports and action plan to facilitate the participant to implement their plan.
• Crisis: Assistance to resolve points of crisis and developing capacity and resilience in the participant’s network.
• Coach, Refine, Reflect: Coach the participant through challenges that come up. Helps participant prepare for review and report on achieved participant outcomes.

Specialist Support Coordination

Is delivered utilising an expert or specialist approach, necessitated by specific high complex needs or high level risks in a participant’s situation. Delivered in a time limited, outcomes focused manner to meet the individual needs of the participant’s circumstances. To address highly complex barriers impacting on the ability to implement a aprticipants plan, and to reduce complexity in the participant’s support environment in the context of broader systems of support.

complexities and barriers affecting a participant’s capacity and ability to implement their plan is reduced, and may be replaced by support coordination in subsequent plans. Specialist Support Coordination may also involve development of an intervention plan which will be put in place by disability support workers.

Assistance to the participant to enable independent communication in essential personal, social or community activities where translation is not available from a mainstream service.

Assistance to Access and Maintain Employment or higher education.

Workplace assistance enables a participant to successfully obtain and/or retain employment in the open or supported labour market. Including: individual employment support, employment, preparation and support in a group, school leaver employment supports and transition through school and to further education

Development of Daily Living and Life Skills.

Assisting with and/or supervising personal tasks of daily life to enable the participant to live as autonomously as possible. These individual supports can be provided in a range of environments, including but not limited to, the participant’s own home.

Assisting with and/or supervising personal tasks of daily life to enable the participant to live as autonomously as possible. These supports are provided by a worker with additional qualifications and experience relevant to the participants’ complex needs. These individual supports can be provided in a range of environments, including but not limited to, the participant’s own home.

Daily life tasks in a group or shared living arrangement.

Community Participation in community, social and civic activities.

Group/Centre Activities and Centre Based Activities.

Specialist housing solutions, including assistance with the delivery of supports that cater for extreme functional impairment or very high support needs.

Management of Funding for Supports

Support with rental of adapted vehicle and Transporting participants from one location to another.

Assistance with household tasks enables participants to maintain their home environment. This may involve undertaking essential
household tasks that the participant is not able to undertake.

enable participants to access mainstream activities.art classes, sports coaching and similar activities that build skills and independence.

Assessment and the development of a comprehensive plan that
aims to reduce and manage behaviours of concern.

Provision of a mix of therapies, and a key worker for the family. Supports all children 0-6 years with developmental delay or disability and their families to achieve better long-term outcomes, regardless of diagnosis. All children and families will be treated as individuals to ensure that they receive the right support to meet their goals and aspirations. The type of supports will be different for every child and their family according to their needs.

Therapeutic supports provided to assist participants aged from 7 years to apply their functional skills to improve participation and independence in daily, practical activities in areas such as language and communication, personal care, mobility and movement, interpersonal interactions and community living.

Physical wellbeing activities promote and encourage physical well-being, including exercise.