Navigating the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) and you NDIS Plan can often feel like entering a labyrinth with numerous paths and no clear directions. However, with the right guidance and understanding, you can find your way through this maze and maximize your benefits and your support. At Assist Lifestyle, located on the Sunshine Coast, we specialise in providing tailored NDIS support coordination and Psychosocial Recovery Coaching to help you effectively manage and navigate your NDIS plan and NDIS funding.
Understanding Your NDIS Plan and Funding
To begin navigating the NDIS, it’s crucial to understand the structure of your NDIS plan and the funding it provides. Your plan is created by NDIS Planner to support your disability needs, so you can access various of supports and services which help build your capacity to increase your independence and participation in the community. ( checked up to here). NDIS Plan is divided on the main 4 categories with the following funds.
On the Sunshine Coast, Assist Lifestyle’s team of experienced Support Coordinators and psychosocial recovery coaches work with you to unpack your NDIS plan, ensuring you understand each aspect of your NDIS Plan and know how to utilise it to achieve your NDIS goals.
Key Components of an NDIS Plan
Core Supports funding:
- Can be spent flexible across following supports and delivered by your Support Worker
- Daily life Activities: Personal assistance to manage daily life tasks. Personal care, domestic assistance
- Community participation: Assistance with accessing community and transport
- Consumables: Disability related products recommended by Occupational Therapist, with the cost up to $1500 per plan. Example: continence aids,Catheters
- Absorbent products and pads
- Disability-related wound and skincare
- Pumps and syringes for home enteral nutrition purposes
- Food preparation products
- Modified eating aids
- Specialised mattresses and pillows
- Personal care and safety products
- Auslan or signed English training
- Telephone or video interpreting
- Vision or hearing-related low cost assistive technology.
- Transport funding
Capital Supports is stated support and must be included in the NDIS plan as stated item
- Assistive Technology: Equipment to improve your independence and safety. High cost assistive technology, with cost over $1500
- Home Modifications: Changes to your home environment to enhance your accessibility.
- Car modifications: Changes to you own car to make it assessable due to your disability needs
Capacity Building Supports is stated support, must be used in line with allocated funds, the progress reports must be submitted 6-8 weeks before the end of the plan for plan review or as an evidence that supports were provided with outcomes for the NDIS goals
- Improved Health and Wellbeing: Programs aimed at improving your physical condition and managing your health.
- Improved Relationships: Supports to help you develop positive social interactions and relationships.
- Lifelong Learning: Assistance with education and skill development to enhance your ability to participate in work and the community.
- Choice and Control Funding . Stated support This funding allocated for NDIS plan manager to assist you paying for your NDIS support. This Support to help you to manage payments for the services you receive.