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What is Support Coordination?
When the road ahead can seem overwhelming and lonely a Support coordination is a NDIS funded support, to help participants use their NDIS plan. This service includes connecting NDIS participants to community and mainstream supports and strengthening informal networks. Like many NDIS supports, support coordination focuses on capacity building. A support coordinator should strengthen the participant’s ability to exercise choice and control, and to coordinate their life and supports independently.
There are 3 levels of support funded by the NDIS and these can be discussed if not already stated in your NDIS plan.
Our role as Support Coordinators
The activities completed by a support coordinator vary based on the participant’s individual needs, but also the level of support coordination funding. Typically, support coordinators help participants to: understand their plan. determine their service needs and connect with supports and services. set up supports and services, service agreements and service bookings. Identify and manage potential points of crisis or barriers to service engagement. Manage their supports and services throughout the plan cycle. Plan and prepare for their plan review. Importantly, a support coordinator should focus on building a participant’s capacity to complete these tasks more independently in the future.
How to get a Support Coordinator
Funding for support coordination is subject to the same reasonable and necessary criteria as all other NDIS funded supports. The NDIA needs to be satisfied the person’s support needs exceed what an ECEI or LAC partner can offer. When demonstrating the need for support coordination, think about what a support coordinator is funded to do. Then gather evidence to show why the person would need this level of support.
You can contact us before you have funding or if you need support we can also provide services using personal funding. You are not alone in this!
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