NDIS and Employment School Leaver Employment Supports SLES

NDIS and Employment School Leaver Employment Supports (SLES) and the NDIA Functional Capacity Assessment (FCA) 2017

Agenda 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Role of Brotherhood of Saint Lawrence NDIS and employment SLES The Functional Work Assessment Next steps

Brotherhood of St Laurence NDIS Local Area Co-ordination (LAC) The role of the LAC in North East Melbourne Area (NEMA)

The NDIS Pathway Review Implementation Planning Pre planning Access

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.

The planning process: 1. Think about your needs and goals; and your current supports (preplanning sessions can support you to do this) 2. Develop your plan with your Local Area Coordinator or NDIA Planner. LAC submits the plan to be approved by a NDIA delegate 3. Start your approved plan. 4. Review your plan. Any questions or worries during the process please contact your Local Area Coordinator

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 providers

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.

What doesn’t the NDIS fund? There are rules for the NDIS that mean some supports cannot be funded in an NDIS plan The NDIS will not fund: • Supports that are not related to a person’s disability • Supports that are funded by a different system • Day-to-day living costs that everyone pays for such as food, electricity and water

Education and employment 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 It is the expectation that the schooling system will continue to: Schools • • Fulfil compulsory nature of schooling Provide reasonable adjustments • teaching, learning assistance, modifications and transport Higher education • Provide reasonable adjustments • teaching, learning assistance, modifications and transport

Employment services and programs must still support: People with a disability • Prepare for, find and maintain a job Employers • • To hire and be inclusive of people with a disability To hire and To provide support, training and resources To make reasonable adjustments To provide work-specific support

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 support • This means you can choose the provider or support worker you will work with • If you need some help to choose your providers, a Support Coordinator or Local Area Coordinator can help you.

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 Greensborough Thomastown – 1/1 Latitude Blvd Thomastown Preston – 293 High St. Preston South Morang – 16/ 797 Plenty Rd. South Morang Please call BSL on 1300 275 634 or drop into an office to book a session.

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 Deane

Employment supports for people with disability