05/08/2024
📝 NDIS Planning Meeting Checklist (please share!)
📑 What to Bring/Provide:
🖨️ Printed Copies of reports from therapists/doctors (single-sided, not stapled) if you are meeting in person.
📄 Quotes from providers for requested services.
💊 Prescriptions and Quotes for larger custom assistive technology requirements.
🧑🤝🧑 Support Person – Bring whoever you like, but it might be best not to bring a provider to avoid conflicts of interest. Exceptions might be an independent support coordinator if you have one. You can bring a friend, family member, or advocate – your ECEI, LAC, or Planner can help arrange this.
📋 Printed Document that includes:
📝 About Me Statement (this can be short – doesn’t affect funding).
🗣️ Statement of Lived Experience (also known as an Impact Statement or Participant or Carer Statement) – less than a page is best.
🎯 List of Your Goals (seven or fewer is easiest for planners, but there is no legal limit).
👥 List of All Your Current Supports – medical professionals, disability supports and services, therapists, and community groups and activities (paid and unpaid).
📅 Calendar/Schedule – something visual that shows at a glance how your typical week would look if you got the requested supports and services.
📌 None of this work will guarantee you will get the supports and services you request, but in our experience, the better prepared you are and the better evidence you supply, the better the outcome.
💪 All the best!
And if you want to learn even more, come along to one of our review-related short online workshops at https://www.thegrowingspace.com.au/events-2/
Pic desc: A photo of Natalie and Zac during a meeting, discussing important things. They are sitting around a table in an office.
