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HOW TO WRITE A HOUSING PLAN Penny Paul, Senior Policy & Research Officer Whos in the room? Ma May I have a show of hands: Support coordinators Allied health professionals People who have worked in disability prior to the NDIS People

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HOW TO WRITE A HOUSING PLAN

Penny Paul, Senior Policy & Research Officer

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Who’s in the room?

Ma May I have a show of hands: Support coordinators Allied health professionals People who have worked in disability prior to the NDIS People working with people in RAC, or at risk of admission People working with people in hospital People who have written a housing plan People who are about to write a housing plan People who have experience of a person using NDIS funding to make a mainstream housing option work Please call out a question that you’ve come here with

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TODAY’S SESSION

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Environmental scan

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Summer Foundation NDIS housing resources

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Morning tea

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Writing a housing plan using the SF Housing Plan Tool

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Example of an OT report recommending SDA

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Example of a successful SDA Housing Plan

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What next

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Specialist disability accommodation (SDA)

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Appealing decisions

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Reflections / feedback

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About Summer Foundation

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Responses from young people who have exited aged care to the Ministers announcement

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NDIS’ Approach to Housing

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NDIS funded supports to assist people meet their housing goals

  • Capacity building supports
  • Assistance with daily living supports
  • Developing and/or sustaining the participant’s informal support

network

  • Home modifications
  • Assistive technology
  • SDA

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The NDIS Housing Pathway

https://www.summerfoundation.org.au/ndis-housing-resources/

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Testing eligibility for SDA

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Environmental scan

  • SDA is a new world
  • SDA Rules 2016
  • Decision making
  • Implications
  • The importance of mainstream or ordinary housing
  • Shared supported accommodation
  • Managing expectations

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Summer Foundation NDIS housing resources

  • https://www.summerfoundation.org.au/ndis-housing-resources/

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Housing goal

Participants need a relevant housing goal, for e.g.

  • I am 37 years old and it is my dream to

finally live on my own. As a 24 year old, it is time I got to do what everyone else does, and move away from my family.

  • I want to move out of here and be part of

the community. They are all old and deaf

  • here. I haven’t got anyone to talk to.
  • To live more independently in my own

home so I can feel safe, and have the space to do my art, and have friends to visit

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www.summerfoundation.org.au

FOR NDIS PARTICIPANTS OCTOBER 2017

ABOUT THIS TOOL

This tool helps you think about where you want to live, who you would like to live with and the type of housing that you would like to live in. You can use this tool to tell your housing story and work out your housing goals. This tool provides links to digital stories that show people with complex needs living in different types of housing. Watching these may help you to think about what housing options might suit you. If your NDIS Plan includes capacity building funding to explore your housing

  • ptions, the information you put in here will help when you talk to your

Support Coordinator about your housing goals and preferences. This is not a housing application form, but the information you put in here will assist you to look for suitable housing. You can cut and paste the information from this tool into housing application forms.

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NDIS funded supports to assist people meet their housing goals

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Mainstream housing

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If a participant's disability prevents them from accessing mainstream housing, they should test their eligibility for SDA

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Who was the NDIA thinking about when they wrote the SDA Rules?

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28, 28,000 000 pe peopl

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16,000 Existing Supported Accommodation 6,200 Residential Aged Care 5,800 Unmet Demand

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SDA eligibility - and require an SDA response

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Housing Plan Tool

Template for submitting your NDIS housing plan:

  • Matches up your evidence

with the Reasonable and Necessary assessment

  • Covers all the information

NDIS requires

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Recent changes to SDA

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Greater certainty about SDA

  • The Framework now clearly states that it is ‘intended

to provide long-term certainty for participants, providers and infrastructure investors about the enduring nature of specialist disability accommodation under the NDIS

  • The SDA Framework now confirms the ongoing

nature of SDA funding in a participant’s plan: ‘it is not envisaged that a participant, once found eligible for SDA, would lose that eligibility

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Recent changes to SDA

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More choice and control for participants

  • The SDA Framework now includes an additional

statement that establishes the ‘centrality of a participant’s choice and independence and right to exercise control over their life’

  • SDA funding to be provided in an eligible

participant’s plan, even if a dwelling is not available

  • Remove barriers and disincentives for families to live

together in SDA

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Recent changes to SDA

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Participant planning processes

  • Participants will not need to prove they have

exhausted all housing options

  • Dedicated NDIA planning team, fast-tracking of SDA

assessment decisions and priority for those in aged care or hospital

  • More NDIA guidance to help people in the SDA

planning process

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Feedback on SDA Housing Plans

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  • Use a strengths based approach
  • Show how SDA will facilitate the persons access to the community

and build their capacity

  • Provide evidence of value for money
  • The person’s preferences in their own words is powerful
  • Any feature that links to a cost need evidence re R & N, an for e.g.

a two bedroom single occupant apartment.

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Feedback on SDA Housing Plans

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  • Put the persons housing goal at the beginning
  • Include a table of contents
  • Take out all Summer Foundation formatting and headings
  • Link evidence to the SDA Rules and NDIS R & N criteria
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Morning tea please be back in the room by 10.50

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Working through the housing plan tool

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We now have some feedback on housing plans that have been submitted. Today I’m going to work through a housing plan that secured SDA for Cheryl Smith.

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SDA in an NDIS Plan

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www.thehousinghub.org.au

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New build Specialist Disability Accommodation (SDA)

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Seeking review of an NDIA decision

Disability Advocacy Finder

https://disabilityadvocacyfinder.dss.gov.au/disability/ndap/

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What next

  • Be persistent
  • Network
  • Sign up to the UpSkill mailing list,

https://www.summerfoundation.org.au/get-involved/support- coordinators-mailing-list/

  • Other communities of Practice

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Questions / reflection / feedback

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www.summerfoundation.org.au

+ 61 3 9894 7006 penny.paul@summerfoundation.org.au

Pe Penny nny Pa Paul ul

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Thank you

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SDA & In-kind

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  • “No participant is required to

live in an in-kind SDA property if they do not wish to” – David Bowen

  • “Victoria has an agreement with

the NDIA to ensure that this does not impact on choice and control of accommodation. No participant who would prefer a non-government place will be required to accept or stay in a government place if there is a suitable place available in the non-government sector” – Jenny Mikakos

In-kind up sides

Consider individual preference Wide range of basis for requesting non-in-kind 10 business day cap for States to advise on availability Commonwealth position – no in-kind post 1 July 2019

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NDIS’ Approach to Housing

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NDIS’ Approach to Housing

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100,000 200,000 300,000 Private means Existing Affordable Housing NDIS (SDA) Unmet need

88,000 57,000 28,000 127,000

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Building the capacity of support coordinators

The UpSkill program aims to provide young people with disability a higher quality support coordination workforce that will help them avoid aged care. UpSkill will focus on these key areas:

  • Hospital discharge and rehabilitation to help people return to the community
  • NDIS housing pathways and developing collaborative housing plans
  • Building the capacity of young people in aged care to get back to the community
  • Support coordinators play a critical role in assisting people with complex disability support needs

achieve positive outcomes under the NDIS.

  • To learn about face-to-face professional development opportunities coming up in Victoria, NSW and

Queensland and how to access our online resources, sign up to our support coordinators mailing list at: summerfoundation.org.au/upskill UpSkill is an initiative of the Summer Foundation.

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Responses from young people who have exited aged care to the Ministers announcement

https://twitter.com/PaulFletcherMP/status/110893667032 0054272 https://twitter.com/SHendersonMP/status/110898296611 6442114

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