NDIS and Employment 2017 Agenda Role of Brotherhood of Saint Lawrence NDIS and employment SLES The Functional Work Assessment Next steps Brotherhood of St Laurence NDIS Local Area Coordination LAC ID: 640172
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School Leaver Employment Supports (SLES) and the NDIA Functional Capacity Assessment (FCA)
NDIS and Employment
2017Slide2
Agenda
Role of Brotherhood of Saint Lawrence
NDIS and employment
SLES
The Functional Work Assessment
Next steps Slide3
Brotherhood of St LaurenceNDIS Local Area Co-ordination (LAC)
The
role of the LAC in North East Melbourne Area (NEMA)Slide4
The NDIS PathwaySlide5
First step: How will I join the NDIS?
Step 1:
You will receive a letter
in the
mail from the National Disability Insurance Agency (NDIA)
Step 2: You will get a phone call from NDIA representative to confirm access.Step 3: Once your access is confirmed you will be contacted to start your planning conversation. Slide6
The planning process:
Think about your needs and goals; and your current supports (pre-planning sessions can support you to do this)
Develop your plan with your Local Area Coordinator or NDIA Planner. LAC submits the plan to be approved by a NDIA delegate
Start your approved plan.
Review your plan. Any questions or worries during the process please contact your Local Area Coordinator Slide7
Who can attend the planning conversation?
You can bring anyone with you to the planning meeting
Some will bring their family or nominee/guardian
Some will bring advocates to support them
Others will bring providersSlide8
What does the NDIS fund?
The Scheme
funds supports
which can help a
person
undertake general daily living activities. These include:Planning and decision making, and support to complete household tasks.Capacity building assistance so participants can live independently and achieve their goals (i.e. building social relationships, financial management and tenancy management skills).Supports to engage with the local community so participants can participate in recreation, education, training and employment activities. Slide9
What doesn’t the NDIS fund?
There are rules for the NDIS that mean some supports cannot be funded in an NDIS planThe NDIS will not fund:
Supports that are not related to a person’s disabilitySupports that are funded by a different system
Day-to-day living costs that everyone pays for such as food, electricity and water Slide10
The Education and Employment services still have a legal obligation to provide support and reasonable adjustments to assist people with disabilities in accessing work and education activities.
To be in line with
Disability Discrimination Act 1992
Education and employmentSlide11
It is the expectation that the schooling system will continue to:
Schools
F
ulfil
compulsory nature of schooling
Provide reasonable adjustments teaching, learning assistance, modifications and transportHigher educationProvide reasonable adjustments teaching, learning assistance, modifications and transport
EducationSlide12
Employment
Employment services and programs must still support:People
with a disabilityPrepare for,
find and maintain a job
Employers
To hire and be inclusive of people with a disabilityTo hire and To provide support, training and resourcesTo make reasonable adjustmentsTo provide work-specific supportSlide13
Can I choose who provides me with supports?
The funding in your NDIS plan lets you choose how your supports are delivered and who provides your supportThis
means you can choose the provider or support worker you will work withIf you need some help to choose your providers, a Support Coordinator or Local Area Coordinator can
help you.Slide14Slide15Slide16Slide17Slide18Slide19
Next steps: Pre- Planning workshops
Brotherhood of St Laurence (BSL) are holding pre-planning workshops for participants and family members at their main locations:
Greensborough – 65 Main St GreensboroughThomastown – 1/1 Latitude Blvd ThomastownPreston – 293 High St. PrestonSouth Morang – 16/ 797 Plenty Rd. South Morang
Please call BSL on 1300 275 634 or drop into an office to book a session. Slide20
Employment: an ordinary life“For me an ordinary life is being able to access employment and be able to get around the workplace
independently”. Sharyn
Craven
People with disability “don’t want anything
special
. They just want to get out and do the same kind of stuff as everybody else.They want to get a job”. Kirsten DeaneSlide21
Employment supports for people with disability