Good Directions Participant-Owned Disability Service (GD-PODS) model provides a framework of ‘supported independence’ that is tailored to your personal preferences, choices, culture & values. Rather than ask someone else before you spend your own funding package – why not have a bank account in your own name? Good Directions will tailor a structure to suit your circumstances, and has a team of mainstream professionals who will assist with accommodation, payroll, tax, legal, medical, recruiting home care and reporting. With over 20 accommodation options and innovative use of technology and partnerships, Good Directions puts in place structures that are best described as ‘supported independence’. Good Directions offers a comprehensive service and tailors our service using a specialist person centred support review by the Centre for Disability Studies, Sydney University or similar specialist service. This provides a cutting edge personal plan from any number of international experts who are associated with the Centre. A key focus of Good Directions is to encourage and facilitate the use of mainstream services and social interaction. Good Directions staff recently set up three 11 & 12 year old boys with severe autism in a participant-owned service. With great support from their parents, siblings and mainstream service providers they signed their own lease, employed their own staff, purchased their own furniture, transport and have a support structure that Good Directions believes is an Australian first. Enjoy looking through Good Directions page and imagining the difference a participant-owned service would make to your life.
