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02/10/2021

Part 1 of 3- Gathering Provider Evidence and Documentation

Your support providers or individuals should complete all documentation related to the supports they deliver for you.

This is very important and crucial for your NDIS planning meeting. There are multiple aspects that the documentation should fulfil to be sufficient in supporting you.

6 week deadline
Your support providers or individuals should have completed their reports and documentation 6 weeks prior to your NDIS plan end date.

Before the report/s are sent to the NDIA, ensure you have seen them and are confident they reflect what support you require in your next plan.

After reading through the reports, ensure the language used within the report are relevant as we have already posted about NDIS language. The language used within the reports is also a very crucial part of your reports. The language should be based on your support needs and supporting you to achieve your goals. The language should be relevant to NDIS to ensure whoever reads your report/s, can see how you would benefit and work towards achieving your goals by receiving the support that is recommended.

Part 2 of this 3 part Pre Planning release will be out soon so stay linked in!

08/09/2021

🟠Pre Planning🟠

This is going to be a 3 part release as there is lots to cover on how to Pre Plan for your NDIS planning meeting

These are 3 important aspects we are going to cover:

🔸Gathering Provider Evidence and Documentation

🔸Mainstream Support Documentation

🔸Carer Impact Statement/Report

Stay connected so you can get the latest information from us :)

03/09/2021

You have to think, what does the NDIS want to see, hear or read? What language do you use now that may not be putting you in the best possible position? You may or may not use these terms but here are some common terms you might come across

“I want to be funded for this…..”
“I need to be funded for this…..”
“I should be funded for this…..”

Your support providers or individuals might say:
“NDIS Participant wants to be funded for this…..”
“NDIS Participant needs to be funded for this……”
“NDIS Participant should be funded for this….”

🟢Words and Statements That Will Go A Long Way In Supporting You

To accompany your supporting documentation and evidence, here are just some examples of some NDIS Language that could improve your overall outcome:

🔹Reasonable and Necessary
“It is reasonable and necessary to receive funding for support workers because……”

🔹Value For Money
“It is value for money to receive funding for support workers because……”

🔹Goal/s
“Funding for this support will support me to develop my independence to achieve my goal of…..”

🔹Independence
“This support will enable me to work towards building my independence to achieve my goal of…..”

🔹Support
“I require full active support to complete…..”
“I require partial active support to participate in…..”
“I require minimal active support to complete…..”
“I require prompting support to complete…..”

🔹Relationships
“This support will enable me to build meaningful relationships in my community”

Using NDIS Language that relates directly to your chosen goals and support needs is essential as this contributes to how your NDIS plan is funded based on the support you require to achieve your goals

We will be back soon for some more helpful tips and advice so watch this space!!!

30/08/2021

NDIS Language

Are you feeling like you have really good reports from your support providers or individuals?

Are you feeling like you produce good reports yourself as a person living with a disability, or an informal support member of someone living with a disability?

But for some reason, the funding in your plan isn’t matching up with what has been recommended for you in your reports? Then we have a tip for you!

While not the only reason, one key thing to know about is how to use the right NDIS Language to put yourself in the best possible position to receive as much funding as possible.

What is written in your reports and even your communications with the NDIS (emails, phone calls, letters), you want it to be what the NDIA wants to hear or read as your funding is dependent on the people at the NDIA.

In our next set of tips and advice, we are going to dive into how to use the right NDIS Language in the right context so you can make some easy changes or ask your support providers or individuals to make some easy changes that will benefit you greatly when you are completing reports or communicating with the NDIA.

Happy Monday everybody!

25/08/2021

So why should you have broad Goals?

When you have broad Goals, it gives you the best chance of receiving as much funding as possible to achieve those Goals

This is because there could multiple “mini Goals” or “steps” under each broad Goal that if achieved, this then supports your overall achievement of your broad Goal

To put this into real life, for example of what wouldn’t be recommended to have as one of your Goals, “I want to learn how to swim”. You may for example receive 20 hours of funding in total for a support worker to support you to achieve this Goal as that is what the NDIS has deemed reasonable and necessary for you. Firstly, you may or may not learn how to swim within those 20 hours of support. If you don’t achieve your goal, what happens then? If you do achieve your goal, but want support to continue to develop and maintain your independence in swimming, what happens then?

You can see this already starts to become quite complicated. Using the same scenario, what we would recommend is instead of having your goal as “I want to learn how to swim”, we would suggest your Goal saying something a little more like “I would like to maintain my physical health and fitness”. Here’s why!

Under your broad Goal of “I would like to maintain my physical health and fitness”, one “mini goal” or “step” for you to achieve this could be learning how to swim, or it could be other things, but the NDIS can’t assume what these things will be and therefore would ideally fund you more than the 20 hours of support we mentioned above

Here are some ideas:

🟢 I want to maintain my independence within my home

🟢I want to be supported to access my community as independently as possible

🟢I want to complete tasks of daily living as independently as possible

🟢I want to maintain my mobility and be able to access different environments as independently as possible

🟢I want to build healthy relationships within my community

21/08/2021

GOALS

A very important aspect of your NDIS plan is your Goals

While not the only factor impacting the funds that are in your plan, the funds in your plan are directly linked to your goals

You can break your goals up into Short term, Medium term and Long term Goals

Your Goals can be aspirational achievements you would like to achieve

It is important to keep Goals as BROAD as possible

**Stay tuned for when we drop some (quite a few) examples of Goals you could use and why it is important to keep your Goals broad**

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