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Servicing the Illawarra
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Our Services
Our team are friendly and super helpful. Intrigued? Take a read of some of our skills below.
We're here to help
Ability Links focuses on building a person’s ability, and linking people to their community.
Our aim is to strengthen the network of support around you and to pass on skills. As a result, we help people to live with as much independence as possible.
We assist with:
- Neuroaffirming positive behaiour support
- Self-Management Capacity building
- Life Transition Planning
- Assistance with Accommodation and Tenancy Obligations
- Employment Support
- Skills Development and Training
- Assistance with Decision Making Daily Planning and Budgeting
- Community Engagement Assistance
- Innovative Community Participation
Neuroaffirming Positive Behaviour Support
WHAT DO WE DO?
Individualized Assessment: Conduct a thorough assessment to understand the individual’s unique neurodiversity, strengths, and challenges, ensuring that support strategies are tailored to their specific needs and preferences.
Collaborative Planning: Work closely with the individual, their family, and other relevant stakeholders to develop a personalized support plan that incorporates their goals, interests, and values, fostering a sense of partnership and shared decision-making.
Strength-Based Interventions: Implement strategies that build on the individual’s strengths and capabilities, rather than focusing solely on managing difficulties, to promote positive behaviours and enhance overall well-being.
Proactive Support: Develop and implement proactive strategies to prevent challenging behaviours by addressing potential triggers and providing supportive environments that accommodate the individual’s neurodiversity.
Skill Development: Provide targeted support to help the individual develop essential life skills, coping mechanisms, and self-advocacy techniques, empowering them to navigate daily challenges more effectively.
Ongoing Monitoring and Adjustment: Continuously monitor progress and gather feedback to refine and adjust the support plan as needed, ensuring it remains effective and responsive to the individual’s evolving needs and circumstances
Assistance with Decision Making, Daily Planning and Budgeting
Help to research and make decisions
Making decisions can be tough, especially without all the information in from of you.
Assistance with decision making, daily planning and budgeting focuses on supported decision making.
This isn’t about making decisions for someone, or planning out their day; it focuses on gathering options and information and presenting them in a way that it makes planning, budgeting and decision making easier.
Life Transition Planning
Make a plan for the future
This service focuses on linking participants to peers and mentors that provide volunteer assistance within the participant’s home or community to develop skills.
For instance, assistance in attending appointments, shopping, bill paying, taking part in social activities and maintaining contact with others.
Assistance with Accommodation and Tenancy Obligations
Help to find or keep a home
We can help with activities to help participant find or keep appropriate accommodation, especially those at risk of homelessness. This may include assisting to apply for a rental property, negotiate to secure government housing assistance or to undertake tenancy obligations in the mainstream market. We can even assist people to explore an Independent Living Options package; where you can get support from a live in support worker or housemate.
Generally we use this as an interim service until support coordination is funded in a plan.
Skills Development and training
Learn new things
Assistance in developing life skills and training. This could include public transport training and support, developing skills for joining in community, social and recreational activities.
Self-management capacity building
Learn how to budget your support
The self-management capacity building item provides you with flexibility to purchase services to that help you to self-manage your funds and supports.
It is designed to complement other capacity building supports to like support coordination, individual skills building or plan management. It is there to help participants to develop skills to have choice and control over their plan.
Community Engagement Assistance
Help becoming more socially connected
Programs to empower participants and help them to make new friends and improve how they engage with the community.
This includes assistance to engage effectively in the community through a group approach to help achieve
goals, gain insight into their lives and make informed decisions.
Employment Support
Supports for a person with disability to work when they are likely to need extra help
The Federal Government already funds Disability Employment Services (DES), though sometimes their services don’t quite cover the level of support NDIS participants require to find or keep a job.
Some participants may not be eligible for their services. This service can be funded to assist alongside DES.
It can include things like coaching, skills development or mentoring related to employment goals.
Innovative Community Participation
Join a class, a group or get involved in an activity
Funding used on innovative community participation is for activities that don’t quite meet other funding categories, though are still considered reasonable and necessary support. This support enables participants to access mainstream activities in the wider community.
This could be a cooking class, art classes or countless other activities.
We're inclusive
Everybody deserves to feel comfortable and have the right to make their own decisions.
Please let us know if you require an interpreter or need us to change the way we do things.
We are happy to organise translation. Our resources and services can be delivered in ways that help you to feel comfortable.
