PARTICIPATION IN COMMUNITY/SOCIAL/CIVIC ACTIVITIES

At AUSCARE DISABILTY SUPPORT SERVICES, we understand that Participants value their engagements with their communities, and that accessing their communities is paramount to maintaining their complete health and wellbeing. Each Participant’s NDIS plan should aim to provide opportunities for participation in a range of activities. When you use AUSCARE DISABILTY SUPPORT SERVICES, a support worker will accompany you to activities, whether it is haircuts, shopping, sporting activities, gym workouts, hobby activities, holidays, visiting a library or a cinema or a zoo or a museum (just to mention a few), shopping, medical and allied health appointments, workplace, or educational centre, or just taking time out to visit a café and for some family catch up time. Participants’ social lives are important to their wellbeing and community access support enables opportunities for such connections. Social and recreation activities are an important part of life for many people. You may be able to enjoy these activities independently, or with support from friends, family, and the community. If you need extra help to participate in social and recreation activities because of your disability, we may be able to fund this. You’ll still need to pay for the general costs of your social and recreation activities. These are costs that everyone has to pay for. This means you will pay for things like membership, basic equipment, or entrance fees.

Why would Social & Community Participation be good for me?

Social & Community Participation is funded under a separate line in your NDIS plan and is a great option for Clients that need or want to take that step into the community and make friends, participate in group activities and adventures as well as supporting economic and social participation.

If you would like to use this service, please contact us.

Participants are at the heart of everything we do.

We engage with participants, their families, and carers, along with the disability sector, advocacy groups, providers, and other stakeholders, in many ways, every day.

The ways we engage.

⦁ The NDIA engages with participants, families, carers, the disability sector, and other stakeholders through a wide range of activities.
⦁ These activities are accessible. So, whether it’s a meeting in person or online, getting information in a variety of formats, or providing written, audio or video feedback, everyone can join in.

Disability Representative and Carer Organisations Forum

The DRCO Forum brings together CEOs and senior representatives from key disability sector organisations to engage, discuss, collaborate and co-design with us on important areas of work.
Forum members take part in workshops on specific topics of interest.

Key national stakeholders

We work closely with peak disability organisations and advocacy groups. An NDIA engagement manager is assigned to each group, to keep them informed and seek their expert input.

Provider opportunities

We support market growth and development to meet current and future demand.
We talk with providers and the disability sector about policies, plans and services to meet the needs of participants.
We also communicate with providers and measure their sentiment and satisfaction with the NDIS.

Local communities

Our engagement teams connect with people in local communities across Australia.
We share information about what’s happening in the Scheme and what’s changing – and most importantly, we listen.
We talk to people around the country, at NDIA information and consultation meetings, disability expos, in person and online.
The feedback we gather is reported back to inform Scheme improvement projects.

PARTICIPATION IN COMMUNITY/SOCIAL/CIVIC ACTIVITIES