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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.
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Housing Options – a guide to housing and the NDIS in Queensland has been developed to help NDIS participants and people who support them to understand and explore better housing options, as well as think about their housing needs and preferences.
About Specialist Disability Accommodation – a resource for providers explains what SDA is and how it works. This booklet also provides some current SDA data for Queensland.
For more information about these booklets and the information they provide relevant to Queensland, you can watch a recent webinar presentation below.
The Participant Housing Statement Template (with accompanying guide) seeks to ensure that the NDIA provides people with funding that reflects their preferred housing option.
People under 65 in residential aged care (RAC), or at risk of admission to RAC, with complex disability support needs, whose disability prevents them from living in a mainstream housing option, may only need to submit a participant housing statement between 2 and 5 pages long.
The participant housing statement with supporting documentation should be submitted to the NDIA. Supporting documentation includes allied health assessments, carer statements, RAC care plans, incident and police reports. We have developed a Participant Housing Statement Template to assist.
This guide is for people in residential aged care (RAC), or at risk of admission to RAC, and others at risk of permanent admission to RAC. For all other NDIS participants testing their eligibility for SDA, we recommend submitting a housing plan. See our How to Write a Housing Plan Guide and Template.
Allied health professional reports must address:
– Section 34, R&N, of the NDIS Act 2013
– SDA Rules 2020, Eligibility, andmeets SDA needs requirement (Rules 11- 18)
Providing extensive evidence to the NDIA supports people’s choice and control and guards against the NDIA funding them to live in a group home.
The decision to supplement allied health reports with a housing plan or a participant housing statement rests with the participant. Consider the circumstances and preferred housing outcome when deciding.
NDIS Housing Options resources – Western Australia: As part of the NDIS Housing Options project, 2 new booklets have been developed to assist people with disability and their families, and NDIS and housing providers understand housing options under the NDIS, including Specialist Disability Accommodation (SDA).
These booklets provide information specifically for Western Australia. You can also watch a recent webinar presentation below:
Housing Options – a guide to housing and the NDIS in Western Australia has been developed to help NDIS participants and people who support them to understand and explore better housing options, as well as think about their housing needs and preferences.
About Specialist Disability Accommodation – a resource for providers explains what SDA is and how it works. This booklet also provides some current SDA data for Western Australia.
For more information about these booklets and the information they provide relevant to Western Australia, you can watch a recent webinar presentation below.
This directory has been compiled as part of the Queensland Hospital Discharge and Housing project.
The information provided in this directory has been supplied by each provider.
The providers in this directory have been briefed about the aims of the Queensland Hospital Discharge and Housing project and are aware that they may be approached with referrals of NDIS participants (or their support coordinators) seeking help with identifying potential housing options.
The Queensland Hospital Discharge and Housing project is funded by the Queensland Government and will operate during 2020.
Queensland Government support for the Queensland Hospital Discharge and Housing Project does not constitute an endorsement of providers. The Queensland Government encourages housing for people with disability (both mainstream housing and specialist disability accommodation) to align with the Housing Principles for Inclusive Communities. An up-to-date list of all Registered NDIS Providers can be found here.
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 the :
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 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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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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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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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
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).
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.
For people with disabilities who have complex health and support needs, the experience of being in hospital and the transition out of hospital can be particularly challenging. The risks for the person and their family are high. Getting the support they need, when they need it, requires know-how and collaboration from everyone around them. In particular, they need two large systems – the health system and the NDIS – to be working effectively together.
Health Practitioners are crucial in this, and they need resources that are specific to working with this group of patients.
With funding from the Victorian Department of Health and Human Services, the Summer Foundation has developed tailored resources for health practitioners. These resources cover the entire hospital journey for people with disabilities, from admission to discharge back into the community:
How to write effective support documentation for people with disabilities and complex health and support needs seeking access to the NDIS.
A guide for health practitioners and NDIS staff supporting people in their journey from hospital admission, to discharge and safe and supported transition back into community life.
A toolkit for people with disabilities whose health status calls for specific recognition and tailored support, and who need this to be visible and documented in their NDIS Plans. This toolkit assists them to identify, explore and be ready to include their specific health issues and health risks in their NDIS Plans.
The toolkit is made up of distinct parts. You can download each part below:
About this toolkit
1. Disability and health supports and how the NDIS defines them
2. My details and preferences
3. What would a great life be for me?
4. About my health – being prepared for NDIS planning
5. If circumstances change
6. About my health – being prepared for hospital admission
7. Sources (and further information)
This guide includes five sample plans for people in differing circumstances with examples of how the NDIS can support participants to exercise choice and control to lead an ordinary life:
Sample NDIS Plan A: Working towards leaving RAC to live in the community with appropriate supports from the NDIS
Sample NDIS Plan B: Supporting a younger person to move out of RAC into specialist disability accommodation (SDA)
Sample NDIS Plan Plan C (Year 1): Supporting a younger person with disability and complex support needs to live in SDA in the community
Sample NDIS Plan D (Year 2): This plan shows the following year of supports for a younger person with disability and complex support needs to get an idea of what supports and funding a person might need living in SDA in the community
Sample NDIS Plan E: Living a more fulfilled life in RAC
It can be overwhelming to think about all the services and supports someone may need in a day, week, month or in 12 month’s time. It can also be difficult to understand how much NDIS funding you need to achieve your goals.
These sample plans are to give you a place to start. We have also included a pre-planning tool to help you to develop your own plan and a planning template so you can keep a record of your planning meeting.
Download a Word document version of the Sample NDIS Plans below:
Download a PDF version of the Sample NDIS Plans below:
The Summer Foundation has worked closely with hospital discharge staff, people with disability and families to understand the issues around accessing comprehensive disability support.
This toolkit provides targeted information for hospital discharge staff, and staff in acute and rehabilitation hospital settings, relating to the discharge of people aged under 65 years who have acquired a disability.
For patients
What is the NDIS and is it for me?
What are advocates and how can they help me?
Guardians and administrators: What can they do and who decides if I need one?
Moving in to residential aged care? Here’s how the NDIS can support you
How do I choose someone to support me to make NDIS decisions?
Superannuation: How do I know if I can access it early?
What is a Power of Attorney and how can they support me?
Insurance
For staff
Getting the language right: A guide to writing reports, letters, forms and assessments for the NDIS
NDIS at a glance: Useful links and resources
Further reading on NDIS
Hospital discharge – Context
Hospital discharge – Working together
ACAT: The value of working collaboratively
Kirsty’s story
Hospital discharge – Lessons for health services
Michael’s hospital discharge experience
ACAT: Exploring options for a younger person with disability
Discharge planning – from hospital to home
For patients
How to fill out the NDIS Access Request Form
Case study: Financial considerations for people with acquired disability
Financial considerations of moving in to residential aged care
How to get the best out of NDIS – Access stage
For staff
NDIS access: Useful links and resources
The NDIS: A new landscape for people who acquire a disability
Hospital discharge – Making sense of a new world
Hospital discharge – Looking to the future
Danny’s story – with his brother Michael
For patients
What can I get in an NDIS plan?
What do I take to my NDIS planning meeting?
Support coordinators: Who are they and how can they support me?
For staff
Hospital discharge – Where will I live
Hospital discharge – NDIS Planning
Individual people need individual responses
Holding out hope
Chris’ experiences with the health system
Achieving goals – from hospital to home
I’m a person before a disability – Karen’s story
An NDIS journey
For patients
Plan management
For staff
NDIS implementation: Useful links and resources
NDIS planning: Useful links and resources
Hospital discharge – Implementing the plan
Matthew’s story
Life after discharge – from hospital to home
