A support coordinator who is from a separate company to your other supports, means they work FOR YOU, not for their organisational needs. Just a reminder of the importance of keeping your NDIS supports separated, especially your support coordination! A support coordinator who is from a separate company to your other supports, means they work …
Compassion fatigue is a condition characterised by emotional and physical exhaustion leading to a diminished ability to empathise or feel compassion for others, often described as the negative cost of caring.
Yana enjoys working with all kinds of people and is excited to have the opportunity to assist them in developing important everyday skills and gaining independence.
The theme this year for Speech Pathology Week from 23-29 August is “Communicating with Confidence!”
Communication, simply defined is the transfer of information from one place to another. It serves as a mean for connecting people and places. Communication is a basic human right.
As Support Coordinators, I reckon between the team, we have been involved in over one thousand NDIS plan reviews.
The review process is so lengthly and time consuming. It makes me wonder, is this being done intentionally so we just give up to save our sanity?
Let me explain why I am so frustrated…
Since she was little, Keirki always wanted to have a job in community services. Her goals are to work with people experiencing homelessness, domestic violence and people who have a disability.
Belinda loves helping you make sense of your NDIS plan and helping you lower the stress through a greater sense of clarity and control.
If you are feeling pressured by another provider to move your Support Coordination to them, they are not an ethical provider. Sadly, this is very common. Providers that provide every service and want to monopolise and really need to stop trying to poach people and offer to do all their services. For many people, the benefits of having an independent Support Coordinator who does an awesome job greatly outweighs the service they are offering.
Participants are feeling this isolation heavily. I have had some weeks. It is becoming difficult for any of us practice the healthy strategies that we have developed over our lives to help us manage our mental health. For many people, these practices are no longer possible. This period of time calls for Support people to think outside the box with supporting their participants.
The importance of Telehealth has been highlighted over the last few weeks. It was a bit hard to figure out how it would all work when our practice of supporting people has been face to face, this current circumstance has proven that we need to be creative…
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