Services
Therapeutic Social Work
Social work helps people work through issues they are facing to improve their overall wellbeing. This work can be varied but is often time limited and focused on resolving complex issues. Social work services can be accessed through a range of funding options including with an NDIS plan, insurance bodies or privately for a fee.
Social work empowers individuals to achieve their life goals while helping to provide support during times of vulnerability. It does this by assessing needs and facilitating services and supports. The service can be provided in person or by telephone, in the community or at your home.
Some of the areas of support may include but are not limited to:
- Psychosocial assessments and intervention (assessing living skills, behaviour, environment, social supports etc.)
- Housing and accommodation (including Independent Living Options and Specialist Disability Accommodation)
- Links to support services
- Connecting to social and community activities
- Facilitating planning, goal setting, and developing strategies to achieve outcomes
- Case management
- Understanding and adjusting to a diagnosis of mental health or disability
- Facilitating increased independence
- Assisting with a major life transition
- Supporting families to explore challenges and coping strategies and to sustain their caring arrangements
- Working to strengthen social and emotional wellbeing
- Providing key information about Government benefits and services
- Developing strategies to assist with behaviours of concern or mental health issues
- Providing information and education on relationships, friendships, or sexuality
Your social worker can also provide support and connect you to appropriate expert help during difficult situations such as:
What is Support Coordination?
Support Coordination is an NDIS funded Support designed to assist you to make sure you get the most out of your NDIS funding. It is about supporting you to explore what options are open to you and recommend where and how you can access supports and resources. Key to is working alongside you, your family, friends, and the professionals in your life to fully maximise the potential of your support. It includes generating new ideas, suggesting new opportunities and help to put everything you need in action to achieve your goals.
- Connection: assist the Participant to develop knowledge, experience and connections with the community and broader systems of support.
- Support Design: work together with the participant to understand Plan funding and its purpose. The Support Coordinator works to understand a Participant’s confidence and skills, and helps a participant to identify what they want from services in a way that develops and designs support solutions to meet Participant outcomes.
- Establish Supports: assist the Participant to identify and consider support options, and link the Participant to broader systems of supports. Where practical creates a supports and action plan to facilitate the participant to implement their plan.
- Crisis: Assistance to resolve points of crisis and developing capacity and resilience in the Participant's network.
- Coach, Refine, Reflect: Coach the Participant through challenges that come up. Help the Participant to prepare for review and report on the achieved outcomes.