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CARENDIS SERVICES PTY LTD
Ingleburn, NSW 2565
WHAT IS NDIS ?
The Australian Government initiated the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) for people with disability, including people with intellectual, physical, sensory, and psycho-social disabilities.
The NDIS allocates funding to disabled persons based on their individual needs and choice and allows individuals to control how, when and who will provide services to meet their goals.
The NDIS funding provides many different supports in many areas to enable individuals to live independently and achieve their goals. Every person has their needs assessed, and then a tailored plan is created to assist in achieving personal goals.
The NDIS is designed to empower people with disability to work towards their goals, to identify the disability-related support they need to meet their goals, and to choose where they would like to buy their support.
Depending on your goals, NDIS funding in your plan may include the following:
Core funding
Core supports are defined as the assistance enabling a participant to undertake day-to-day activities. For example, this level of support could be in household tasks and areas such as accommodation, transportation, social participation, and so on.
Capital funding
Funding that covers the purchase of one-off items such as equipment, technology or modifications. It also includes funding for Specialist Disability Accommodation.
Capacity funding
Capacity-building supports are the ones that support NDIS participants’ longer-term goals of moving towards greater independence. These supports are usually provided in sync with core supports. For example, core support might be having home-delivered meals.
Capacity-building support, on the other hand, would be to gain skills and experience in preparing healthy meals at home.
WHAT TYPE OF SUPPORT CATEGORIES NDIS FUND IS AVAILABLE FOR ?
NDIS price guide lists 15 different categories of NDIS supports listed below -
Assistance with daily living
This type of NDIS support relates to getting help with personal activities on a daily basis—such as personal hygiene and domestic care tasks. This category of support enables a person living with a disability to be as independent as possible, both at home as well as within their wider community.
Transport
Transport helps connect NDIS participants to their community. It is essential that people living with a disability get supported in accessing educational, vocational, and recreational opportunities.
Consumables
Consumables are an NDIS support category aimed at helping participants purchase everyday items to meet their unique needs. This could mean paying for such supports as dietary supplements, wound care, and continence products.
Assistive Technology
This NDIS support category relates to the pieces of technology and equipment participants use to help them do things in their daily life they otherwise couldn’t because of disability.
This includes assistive equipment in the household, products for personal care, and vehicle modifications that allow a person living with a disability to drive or travel as a passenger.
Assistance with Social and Community Participation
Participation assistance is one of the most important NDIS support categories for a participant’s sense of community connection. This funding supports NDIS participants in meeting their goals of recreational, community, and social participation. An example would be funding a Disability Support Worker to help with an outing to the movies.
Home Modifications
Examples of home modifications designed to enable NDIS participants to live more independently in their own homes include purchasing a stair climber, modifications made to the bathroom, and wheelchair ramps.
Coordination of Supports
This NDIS funding category aims to strengthen the ability of participants in connecting with a range of reasonable and necessary supports. Through specialist coordination, it supports the ongoing connection with informal, mainstream and funded supports.
Improved Living Arrangements
This NDIS support category may include helping people living with a disability to apply for group home living arrangements or drop-in support. It could also mean getting assistance with meeting tenancy obligations or checking whether the home is appropriate for a participant’s unique needs.
Increased Social and Community Participation
This NDIS funding category pertains to taking advantage of such things as peer support, community participation, specialised weekend programs, and group fitness classes for people living with a disability.
Finding and Keeping a Job (FAKAJ)
Plan-specific support, FAKAJ is aimed at helping eligible NDIS participants enter the workforce. FAKAJ involves helping participants transition to work, improve their work skills, as well as assist in employment.
Improved Relationships
Intensive behaviour support, positive behaviour management, and individualised social skills development are all included in this NDIS support category.
Improved Life Choices
This NDIS support category focuses on strengthening a participant’s ability to manage their support in order to better meet their life goals. This includes building financial literacy skills, and organisational skills, as well as developing an ability to manage their NDIS plan independently, when possible.
Improved Daily Living
This support basically epitomises the intent behind all of the different NDIS support categories empowering people with a disability to achieve their potential in daily life. It aims to develop NDIS participants’ skills in the areas of budgeting as well as general life skills. It also funds counselling, training for carers as well as early childhood interventions.
WHAT DOES NDIS DO?
The NDIS pays for support and services for people with disability. Supports and services may include help with daily life, aids and equipment and other help to meet the goals and do the things a person with disability want to do.
NDIS aims to provide the services and supports as early as possible in their lives when they first get a disability. This is called early intervention.
Not everyone with disability can get the NDIS. So, the NDIS helps people with disability to find and use other services too.
The NDIS provides reasonable and necessary funding to people with a permanent and significant disability to access the supports and services they need to live and enjoy their life. Every NDIS participant has an individual plan that lists their goals and the supports and funding that they can access.
CARENDIS SERVICES is an independent NDIS registered service provider with experience and dedication to enhancing the quality of life for others
WHO CAN TAKE PART IN NDIS?
People with disability or their carers must be eligible to receive the disability support and services. They must have a disability that is permanent (it won’t go away or end) and significant (something big enough to affects the way one live their day-to-day life.
They must be under 65 years old, live in Australia and need to be either a citizen, a permanent resident, or a holder of a Protected Special Category visa.
The support usually provided by NDIS is to help live their day-to-day life that may include help from other people, like a carer, products or technology, or changes to their home.
Some people may need immediate help to reduce the help they need later in life. And some people may need help to learn new skills or to achieve their goals.
WHO ENGAGES WITH NDIS?
| National Disability Insurance Agency (NDIA) |
NDIA is a part of the Australian Government. It was set up according to the law. The law that applies is called the National Disability Insurance Scheme Act 2013. They support a better life for participants with a significant and permanent disability and their families and carers. They assess the eligibility to be a participant and their funding according to the legislation. |
| NDIS Commission |
Also called NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission regulates the service providers to improve the quality and safety of NDIS services and supports. It also responds to concerns, complaints, and reportable incidents, including abuse and neglect of participants. |
| Early Childhood Partners |
Early Childhood Partnerssupport children with disability and their families. NDIS has a program for children with a disability under 7 years old. It’s called Early Childhood Early Intervention or ECEI. Hiba Healthcare is not currently registered to provide ECEI support. |
| ECEI Coordinators |
ECEI Coordinators work for Early Childhood Partners and help the participants as early as possible in their lives or when they first get a disability. |
| Local Area Coordinators (LACs) |
LACs help people with disability find and use services and support. They also assist the person with a disability to understand and use their NDIS plan. They work for NDIS Partners in the Community. |
| Partners in the Community |
Partners in the Community are individuals and organisations that NDIS work with. |
| Participant |
The participant is the person eligible to access the NDIS support and services. |
| Carers |
Someone who supports another person with their care needs. |
| Legal representative |
Someone who supports another person with legal decisions. |
| Support Coordinators |
Support Coordinators are people who help NDIS users and their carers with the disability plan and use their support. |
| NDIS Providers |
Supports and services providers to the participants under the NDIS. They range from independent persons to allied health professionals and from small organisations that deliver one or two supports, to larger organisations that deliver a wide range of supports and services. They all comply with NDIS legislation. Providers may be registered with the NDIS Commission or be unregistered. However, registered providers’ services and supports meet the level of quality and safety stated in the NDIS Practice Standards. |
| NDIS Workers | NDIS Workers are a person who is employed or otherwise engaged to provide NDIS support and services to people with disability. Workers can be people who are self-employed, employees, contractors, consultants, and volunteers. |
WHAT DOES THE NDIS PAY FOR?
The NDIS pays for services and support for people with disability. The services and support must be reasonable, that is, something that is fair and necessary that a person needs
The services and support should also be a good value for money, works well for them and work well with any help or support they get from other people or places, like family and friends.
The NDIS doesn’t pay for day-to-day living costs, like rent or groceries. The support provided is different to other assistance they might get, such as:
- Disability Support Pension (DSP) – a payment from the government to help with day-to-day living costs.
- Compensation – money one might receive if they have an accident.
The NDIS will not affect DSP or any compensation payments they might receive.
WHAT ABOUT FAMILIES AND CARERS?
Most NDIS supports and services are for people with disability. But some supports and services can also be helpful for families and carers. Some families get extra help with day-to-day support. And some families use respite services. This is when they take a break from caring for someone with disability.
WHAT ABOUT OTHER GOVERNMENT SERVICES?
The NDIS works together with other government services. This includes -
| The education system |
The education system pays for schools, universities, and TAFEs. This is to pay for teachers, equipment, buildings, and transport to activities and excursions. The NDIS also pays for the support one might need to take part in education, such as support with day-to-day activities, like eating or getting around, special equipment or technology or the teacher training about their needs. |
| The health system |
The health system pays for doctors, nurses, and other staff, for medical, dental and hospital care and for medication and treatment. The NDIS pays for health care one may need because of their disability, which includes therapy, the technology they may need or wheelchairs and or any other assistive equipment. |
| Employers and the government |
Employers and the government pay for changes at one’s work to help them do their job or to help to find a job if that’s what they need. The NDIS pays for support to help them reach their employment goals. This help may include technical help such as screen readers, help to build skills or support at work. |
| The family support system |
The family support system pays for helping children in need and for the services to support families, such as counselling. The NDIS pays for the support a family might need because of disability and may include therapy, license, or home changes. |
STATE AND TERRITORY DISABILITY SERVICES
CARENDIS SERVICES PTY LTD
Mernda, VIC 3754
Ingleburn, NSW 2565
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