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🟠Pre Planning🟠

This is going to be a 3 part release as there is lots to cover on how to Pre Plan for your NDIS planning meeting

These are 3 important aspects we are going to cover:

🔸Gathering Provider Evidence and Documentation

🔸Mainstream Support Documentation

🔸Carer Impact Statement/Report

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So why should you have broad Goals?

When you have broad Goals, it gives you the best chance of receiving as much funding as possible to achieve those Goals

This is because there could multiple “mini Goals” or “steps” under each broad Goal that if achieved, this then supports your overall achievement of your broad Goal

To put this into real life, for example of what wouldn’t be recommended to have as one of your Goals, “I want to learn how to swim”. You may for example receive 20 hours of funding in total for a support worker to support you to achieve this Goal as that is what the NDIS has deemed reasonable and necessary for you. Firstly, you may or may not learn how to swim within those 20 hours of support. If you don’t achieve your goal, what happens then? If you do achieve your goal, but want support to continue to develop and maintain your independence in swimming, what happens then?

You can see this already starts to become quite complicated. Using the same scenario, what we would recommend is instead of having your goal as “I want to learn how to swim”, we would suggest your Goal saying something a little more like “I would like to maintain my physical health and fitness”. Here’s why!

Under your broad Goal of “I would like to maintain my physical health and fitness”, one “mini goal” or “step” for you to achieve this could be learning how to swim, or it could be other things, but the NDIS can’t assume what these things will be and therefore would ideally fund you more than the 20 hours of support we mentioned above

Here are some ideas:

🟢 I want to maintain my independence within my home

🟢I want to be supported to access my community as independently as possible

🟢I want to complete tasks of daily living as independently as possible

🟢I want to maintain my mobility and be able to access different environments as independently as possible

🟢I want to build healthy relationships within my community