Living more independently
The Housing Needs and Preferences to Support Discharge Guide and Template are for health professionals to support a person with disability to describe the housing and support they want and need so that they can be discharged to suitable housing.
By understanding a person’s housing needs and preferences, health teams can facilitate people with disability to exercise real choice and control over the type of housing they live in, where they live and who they live with. Working in a pressured health system can mean this task feels overwhelming.
The guide and the template assist health teams to have a very important conversation with a person with disability in hospital. It is the first step in finding housing and moving patients along the discharge pathway more efficiently.
The guide and template are designed to be used together.
These videos for health services are part of the NDIS Capacity building framework training manual.
Embedding Practice Change: Health Services and the NDIS
Introduction to the NDIS (Webinars 1–4)
NDIS Foundations (Modules 1–3)
Streamlining Health & NDIS for Better Discharge Outcomes
This is a series of 4 webinars which cover the Introduction to the NDIS for health professionals.
The 4 webinars cover the following:
You can also access the menu for all 4 webinars in the top right hand corner of the video above.
It can be hard to explain to your support worker how you want to be supported. Making a video for your support workers can be a good way of helping them to understand anything you want them to know.
You can make a video about what your worker should know about you, how your support worker can support you to do something, or how your support worker should act with you.
If you haven’t made a video before, you might not know how to start. This page contains links to everything you will need to help you make your video.
Start by watching the ‘How To’ video above and reading the Workbook by clicking on the link below. If you need someone else to help you make your video, there is a Guide written especially for disability professionals.
There are 5 resources to help a person make their training video. Some of these are for the person themselves and some are for other people or organisations:
Making a Training Video for your Support Worker – Workbook
This workbook is for you, your family and friends and shows you the steps to make your training video.
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Your Video Plan
Your Video Plan is a form designed to be used with this workbook. It brings all your ideas and planning together. We think you can’t make a video without it!
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Helping People Make a Training Video – Guide
This guide is for people who are going to support someone to make their own training video. These people are support coordinators, therapists, case managers or anyone helping you to make your video.
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Supporting the Person’s Thinking and Communication
This document gives great ideas for how people can support you to think about your video and to communicate as best you can.
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Sample Training Videos
People have told us it’s sometimes hard to imagine what these types of training videos actually look like. It’s really great to see one before you start. You can see sample training videos below:
James’ support worker training video: WATCH VIDEO
Richard’s support worker training video: WATCH VIDEO
Michael’s support worker training video: WATCH VIDEO
Kirby’s support worker training video: WATCH VIDEO
Terry’s support worker training video: WATCH VIDEO
Business Report
The Business Report is for organisations or professionals who want to work out how much it will cost to make these participant led videos (PLV).
Evaluation Report
An evaluation of the Participant led video (PLV) project was conducted by La Trobe University to gain an understanding of the experience and to measure satisfaction from the perspective of all those involved. The findings also help inform further development of the project to underpin its application more broadly.