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Inclusivity Support Services are an NDIS Registered Service Provider committed to delivering a quality standard of care to all our participants. We are based in Point Cook, and also provide services across Melbourne and Regional Victoria.
Our range of support services include assistance with travel, household tasks, and community participation, along with providing specialised equipment. This includes equipment to assist with mobility, communication and information. We are also an NDIS implementing provider for Behaviour Support Plans for the use of regulated restrictive practices.
Assistance to Access and/or Maintain Employment
Assist Access is a specially designed program for disabled individuals to help them find and keep suitable jobs. It includes providing essential training based on their learning ability to nurture their skills and knowledge. Admire Care, a registered NDIS service provider, encourages and supports disabled individuals from all age groups, including working-age students, to come on and participate in this program for their career well-being. Assist Access/Maintain employment services include support associated with career counseling and guidance, allowing them to learn from the best and choose their passion and career path best suited to them.
Our large-spectrum Assist Access Maintain Program includes:
- Identifying and developing relevant career pathways tailored to individual needs and goals
- Developing skills and other workspace transition changes
- Support for getting a job and keeping the job
- Career planning and career counselling
- Support during your employment
- Workplace assistance and addressing barriers to work
- Support through the employment
- School leaver employment supports (SLES)
- Assessment and counselling related to the employment
- Social and business communication
- Money management
- Travel training
- Personal hygiene and personal presentation
- Teaching workplace norms, behaviours and expectations
- Understanding rights and responsibilities in the workplace
- Teamwork
- Decision-making and problem solving
- Planning and organising
- Working independently
- Time management and prioritising
- Conflict resolution and negotiation
- Building resilience
- Accountability
- Flexibility
- Self-motivation, self-determination and confidence building
- Computer literacy
- Life skills and personal administration
- Resume preparation and job search strategies
- Submitting a job application
- Interview preparation
- Recruitment paperwork preparation
- Preparing for a participant’s first day and induction
- Workplace modification according to individual requirements
Assistance In Coordinating Or Managing Life Stages, Transitions And Supports
This registration group includes short and long-term supports that focus on strengthening the participant’s ability to coordinate their supports, and to assist them to live at home and participate in their community. Includes:
- support connection
- coordination of supports
- assistance with accommodation and tenancy obligations
- Life transition planning including mentoring, peer support and individual skill development
- assistance with decision making, daily planning, budgeting
Support Categories
Providers registered for Assistance in coordinating or managing life stages, transition and supports are able to help with the following support categories:
Daily Personal Activities (Assist Personal Activities)
Daily Personal Activities services are flexible and tailor-made to clients’ needs, goals, and outcomes. In addition to helping clients with everyday activities, these services are also designed to assist them in developing the following skills.
- Bathing, showering, brushing teeth, dressing, and grooming are all part of personal hygiene.
- Bladder management, bowel management, and toileting are also personal hygiene.
- Assistance in eating & drinking.
- Attending medical appointments.
- The use of hearing aids, communication devices, and appliances.
Assistance With Travel/Transport Arrangements
Inclusivity Support Services provide assistance to participants with their travel arrangements. We do this by providing a convenient transport service, that can be scheduled in advance. We can take participants out to shop, meet friends, attend social events or medical appointments, If needed, we can also provide a support worker.
Our services also include helping participants build capacity to travel independently. This includes training to use public transport.
Assistance With Daily Life Tasks In A Group Or Shared Living Arrangement
Inclusivity Support Services provide Innovative Community Participation programs for NDIS participants. We plan and organise a range of activities to provide opportunities for participants to improve their capabilities.
The range of activities are designed to promote learning, skill development and interactions with others. The overall aim is to encourage community engagement, as well as social inclusion for participants.
Innovative Community Participation
Innovative Community Participation Program is designed to support NDIS participants to build skills to actively participate in their community. Through side-by-side practice, the program involves highly skilled Community Engagement Practitioners who assist participants to expand their opportunities for community participation and employment. Community Engagement Practitioners adopt a capacity-building, community-based approach by working with participants in their local community to increase the likelihood of uptake and successful transition away from the service to informal supports and/or employment.
Community Engagement Practitioners maintain a focus on resilience, wellbeing and personal growth to successfully connect to the community, however each service is tailored to best suit the participant, and their goals, to allow them to get the most out of the service. As appropriate, participants who access this program can expect support working on:
- The importance of community engagement, social contribution and relationships in maintaining personal wellbeing
- Self-awareness and self-care
- Gaining awareness of personal interests, skillsets and passions and linking these to employment pathways
- Emotional awareness and self-regulation
- Adaptive social competency including increased awareness of social norms and expectations
- Their relationship with their disability, independence, confidence and self-worth
- Navigating systems and programs to successfully participate in their community and employment pathwayPreparation and support to access training and employment opportunities
- Capacity building for seeking assistance in the community context without ongoing formalised supports
Development Of Daily Living And Life Skills
Development of Daily Living and Life Skills is a service that encourages personal development, enhances independence and increases opportunities to participate in the community. Individuals can work on learning to use public transport, developing skills for community, and normal day-to-day living activities.
House Cleaning and Other Household Activities
These support items enable participants to maintain their home environment. This may involve undertaking essential household tasks that the participant is not able to undertake. When providing this support, support workers engage in performing essential house cleaning activities that the client is not able to perform.
Assistive Prod-Household Task
This category includes all assistive technology supports that assist participants to live independently or assist a carer to support the participant. It also includes related assessment, set-up and training support items performed by assistive technology suppliers. Appropriate assessment and training undertaken by a suitable AT assessor is funded through appropriate line items (e.g. ‘Therapeutic supports’) in the ‘Improved Daily Living Skills’ Support Category (see general Supports Price Guide).
Communication and Information Equipment
Products to assist with alternate communication or to access written or spoken communication via electronic or other means.
Support Categories
Providers registered for Communications and Information Equipment are able to help with the following support categories:
Participation In Community, Social And Civic Activities
The aim of participation in community, Social and Civic activities is to increase participants’ knowledge of life skills, understand disability, reduce social isolation and connect to the community.
The Activities That We Conduct Include:
- Recreational activities such as dance, music, games, art and craft, disco, etc.
- Community get-togethers and outings in book clubs, libraries, local shopping centres and visit to theatres and museums
- Educational activities such as health awareness, trivia regarding current affairs, etc.
- General skills such as cooking, tailoring, self-care, gardening other day-to-day tasks
- Camping
- Drama and art classes
- Sport programs
- Local trips
Group And Centre Based Activities
The aim of the group and centre-based activities is to increase participants’ knowledge of life skills, understand disability, reduce social isolation and connect to the community.
The Activities That We Conduct Include:
- Recreational activities such as dance, music, games, art and craft, disco, etc.
- Community get-togethers and outings in book clubs, libraries, local shopping centres and visit to theatres and museums
- Educational activities such as health awareness, trivia regarding current affairs, etc.
- General skills such as cooking, tailoring, self-care, gardening other day-to-day tasks
- Camping
- Drama and art classes
- Sport programs
- Local trips
Practice Standard Module 2A
At Inclusivity Support Services, we are a registered provider for Practice Standard Module 2A, which simply means that we are registered NDIS provider for the implementation of Behaviour Support Plans for the use of regulated restrictive practices. This is accomplished by working with behavioural support specialists to implement behavioural support plans and practices.
