Provides a broad range of personal support either in the home or within the community to those with an Individualised Support Package.

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Self Directed Support involves a broad range of personal support activities to assist people who have physical, intellectual, sensory and/or cognitive disabilities, along with those who are frail aged to live more independently in their home and their local community.

Personal support activities are provided either in the home or the community and may include:

• Assistance with:
  o mobility including transfers with aids,
  o rehabilitation, exercises, therapy and associated supports;
  o accessing recreation, leisure and cultural activities
  o using local facilities and services including shops, banks, public transport and recreational activities,
  o accessing generic services to enable them to maintain independence
• Assistance with personal hygiene (bathing, grooming, dressing etc) and include Bowel and Bladder care, general self-care (eating, drinking, taking medication etc.)

Self Directed Support can:

• Provide trained staff to meet your support requirements;
• Provide support for all levels of need 24 hours a day, 7 days a week;

Do you need assistance with:

• Care and support at a range of times during the day or evening, 7 days a week?
• A helping hand to continue to live independently?
• Support to establish your independent living situation?
• Assistance with personal care?
• Someone to help you coordinate all your supports?
• Learning new skills?
• Someone to help you at school or work?
• Help finding out about activities of interest and linking you into your local community?
• Making new friends and social connections?
• Having a break away from family?

Self Directed Support:

• is underpinned by the individualised planning and support framework.
• is flexible and responsive to the individual's needs and interests and maximises independence.
• links people into activities that are offered in the community.
• provides a range of activities in the areas of skill acquisition, continuing education, vocational training, recreation and leisure, social and community support within the local environment.
• develops partnerships between disability-specific services, local organisations, generic services and communities to increase participation of people living with a disability in their local community.
• supports the pursuit of paid work as a powerful and valued option where possible and to the fullest extent for each person.
• coordinates services across a range of locations within the community, including in the person's home.

You can use your Individualised Support Package to purchase supports:

• Throughout the day to participate in Visions group activities or;
• At any time 24 hours a day, 7 days a week to obtain individual supports through Self Directed Supports;
• From Abound to assist you to link with recreational, rehabilitation and leisure opportunities.