OUR SERVICES
Social community and economic participation:
These services are designed to support NDIS participants in engaging actively with their local community, accessing social and recreational activities of their choice, and building skills to participate in the workforce. Community access services can include support to attend events, programs, and clubs, while social participation services can relate to assistance with
communication, social skills and developing social connections. Economic participation services aim to build skills and promote employment opportunities, including support with job searching, training and workplace adjustments.
Below are some ways this funding can be used
Attending spaces and places in the community of your choice
Recreational and sporting activities
Support to participate in social groups or spend time with family and friends Building skills, taking up a new interest or learning new things.
Volunteering or support for work
Camps, classes, and vacation activities
Just being present and hanging out in the community
Activities of daily living:
Activities of daily living are basic tasks that everyone does in a day. There are several services available under this category, such as assistance and support with personal hygiene, dressing and clothing, meal preparation and feeding, mobility and transport, and communication.
Below are just a few options on how this category can assist
Support to maintain your home, like cleaning and gardening
Menu planning, Meal preparation and / or support to make a meal
Getting up and ready for the day, Personal care (Showering, toileting support and dressing) Support to pay your bills (online / on the phone at the post office or in person)
Attend appointments
Shopping
Transport
Medication prompts
Accommodation and respite:
If you have STA /Respite specifically mentioned in your plan or if you have the assistance with daily life category you can access these services.
Ensuring everyone (participants and their unpaid carers) have the opportunity for alternative company or a change of scenery is important to the health and wellbeing of everyone involved.
The following can be included in STA Respite
All basic expenses in a 24-hour period (or part thereof) related to providing the service including.
Short-term accommodation (In a hotel or some other accommodation setting)
Assistance with all self-care or community access activities
Overnight support (or part thereof if requested or required)
Food
Activities
The staff at Jarrah supports have a long history of organising STA respite options. Jarrah Supports can organise a customised respite option for you.
Jarrah supports respite arrangements that are individually tailored to your needs and the price will always vary depending on the length of stay, level of support needed and the food and activities requested, but the prices will never be more than the NDIS pricing limits. Please contact us for further details
SIL (supported independent living)
Jarrah Supports can provide the in-home support if you have SIL funding. Jarrah supports have a long history in supporting people to live in a home setting.
Coordination of Support:
This category of support involves working with a coordinator who assists the participant in identifying their support needs, developing a plan, and connecting them with the appropriate
services and providers. The goal of Coordination of Support is to ensure that participants receive the right support, at the right time, and in the most effective way possible.
Recovery coach:
Recovery coaches provide holistic support to NDIS participants who experience mental health challenges, including helping them navigate the various services and resources available to them, developing coping strategies, building life skills, and fostering social connections. Recover coaches are often individuals who have personally experienced recovery themselves, and they draw on their own insights to provide their clients with tailored, first-hand guidance.
Complex support services:
The Jarrah directors have a long history of being creative to ensure support can be delivered to people who are experiencing complex social and personal situations, homelessness or unstable housing or justice issues. We do this by providing tailored support that can include: assertive community outreach, or pro-actively sourcing the right support staff to get the best match for the participant to get the best outcome. The directors at Jarrah have an industry recognised reputation for working alongside teams of multiple stakeholders across government agencies and community service providers.
Support for the LGBTIQ+ Community:
Jarrah director Mark Ravenscroft was instrumental in setting
up the first LGBTIQ+ People living with disability peer group in 2004 and continues to administer the LGBTTIQ+ peer group on facebook. Mark has been an advocate for the LGBTIQ+ people living with disability for nearly 20 years. Jarrah supports are able to source LGBTIQ+ Support staff or LGBTIQ+ friendly support staff, please feel free to get in touch.
Support for the Deaf and Hard of hearing community:
The Deaf and hard of hearing community is a small community and there are limited choices when it comes to support services. The directors at Jarrah supports have been providing support to Deaf or Hard of hearing NDIS participants since they first met in 2017. Director Mark Ravenscroft is a user of Auslan and has a personal experience of the Deaf community. Deaf community members are welcome to reach out to us to see if we can assist.